• Captain Bartholemew's Eyepatch - finished piece
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[B] "Captain Bartholemew's Eyepatch" [/B] [I]Total time taken: roughly 15 hours Materials: Copper plate, thick copper wire, wide elastic, fabric. Joins: apoxy resin, cold rivets, stitches (hand and machine), knots.[/I] Of Steampunk-style design, this piece is an eyepatch. It's designed to be comfortable to wear; the padding eliminates uncomfortable pressure on the face, and despite appearances it is rather light. Most of the joins are either cold rivets or solder, so unless one grabs the parts with pliers and pulls them apart with force or heats the eyepatch with a blowtorch it should hold together. The eyepatch plays on the idea of sight. One usually wears an eyepatch to either train the eye to function as normal, to hide a disfigurement or injury or to signal to others that the hidden eye does not work. This eyepatch is for people who can see quite fine. There's a pocket in the padding that is designed to hold half-wallet-sized photos of love ones, loved places or loved things; so that you might 'keep an eye on them' (or keep them on an eye, as it were). The idea is that, while wearing the eyepatch, you'll be looking partially at whatever you care about most. This was a labour of love. I've sawed, filed, clipped, cut, hammered, sanded, sprayed, heated, soldered and stitched to make this eyepatch. I've spent hour after hour in the jewelery workshop slaving over a workbench trying to get it done on time. It's not perfect; if I had a chance I might go back and perfect it. Now, however, I'm going to take a break. Comments and criticism are welcome. [IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d121/maloof101/DSCF5081.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d121/maloof101/DSCF5076.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d121/maloof101/DSCF5079.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d121/maloof101/DSCF5078.jpg[/IMG] You can get me on DeviantArt here: [URL]http://maloof.deviantart.com/[/URL] and on Twitter here: [URL]http://twitter.com/dia_logue[/URL] [B] I update my Twitter feed whenever I start a new project and periodically whilst working on it, so if you want to stay in the loop I suggest you 'follow' me or, lacking a Twitter account, bookmark the page. I I can't promise that I'll be able to post my work here for much longer; I doubt that the University internet proxy I'm forced to run all my traffic through will leave Facepunch unblocked for too many weeks longer, sadly. [/B]
Looks really cool, and I like the whole pocket idea, nice job.
Thanks. I'm a bit annoyed at how uneven the edges of the padding came out. I might rework that part when I get it back from my lecturer. Any other opinions, comments, criticism, hate-messages, love-messages, marriage proposals, divorce statements or requests for filleted watermelon? I'm only going to grow as an artist with honest feedback.
Amazing work Maloof. I really like the pocket idea too. Post a picture of you wearing it.
I would, but the only picture I have of it on me was taken on a day when, due to my hard work the previous night, I hadn't showered. My hair is all oily and it's all pretty darn yuck. I should be able to get it back sometime this coming week, so I'll post an image of me wearing it soonish. Thanks for the comments and such =]
post a picture of you wearing it!
Turned out as good as planned IMO.
[QUOTE=xamllew;21048682]Turned out as good as planned IMO.[/QUOTE] Is that a compliment? The only planning I really did was a sheet or two of concepts, a rough paper final sketch then I moved on to build.
Lol, I guess that didn't sound as nice as I'd hoped. I mean it turned out great. :haw:
[QUOTE=xamllew;21048928]Lol, I guess that didn't sound as nice as I'd hoped. I mean it turned out great. :haw:[/QUOTE] Haha no problem. Thanks! I'd love to have gotten the trim perfectly straight the entire way around but it didn't quite turn out that way. I guess the roughness adds to the look, somewhat.
It looks cool. Although I dislike anything steampunk after looking through instructables.
Wow looks badass.
[QUOTE=Mac2468;21121107]It looks cool. Although I dislike anything steampunk after looking through instructables.[/QUOTE] Why?
Where did you get all the copper? Also im a huge fan of your work!
[QUOTE=mynames2long;21124786]Why?[/QUOTE] It's nothing against the eyepatch; this actually looks good. Look at [url=http://www.instructables.com/tag/?q=steampunk&limit%3Atype%3Aid=on&type%3Aid=on&type%3Auser=on&type%3Acomment=on&type%3Agroup=on&type%3AforumTopic=on&type%3AforumTopic=on&sort=none]most of the shit[/url] on Instructables. Some of it isn't bad looking but a lot of it makes me want to punch the creator in the face via internet.
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