Tail Recursive

After my attempt at fusing gold leaf failed miserably, I decided to try again: this time without any adhesive. I had a fair amount of scrap tekta lying about the place (as one does) and decided to try a number of different types of metal inclusions: gold leaf, silver leaf, aluminum foil, and copper leaf. I pretty much knew what the copper leaf would do, since I’ve used it before, but here are the results.

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I wasn’t going to post gratuitous cute bunny pictures, but I couldn’t resist this one. Bingo’s sun-beam-nap-time is a fairly typical sight in my home office. You can see what sort of incentive I have when I call in for a conference call.

“Could you keep it down? Some of us are trying to sleep here.”

So, sometimes things don’t always work the way you want. I wanted to experiment with gold leaf as an inclusion, so I bought some gold leaf (surprisingly inexpensive stuff, by the way… gold leaf is very thin) and some adhesive used for gilding. I think the adhesive must have charred in the kiln, because—as you can see—the gold ain’t so gold anymore.

Well, live and learn, eh? I’ll try it again without the adhesive and see what happens.