Just an easy day project for the hell of it.
I got tired of looking at my plain old brass pipe zippo. Even though it has a different mantle in the fact that it is a pipe lighter and has to be tilted sideways to light, it still wasn't different enough for my tastes so I put two almost identical red tiger's eyes on either side. And then to top it off, I threw a wire brush wheel on my buffer and gave it an interesting brush texture that I might have to explore with my next pieces.
Materials:
-Brass Zippo Pipe Lighter
-20ga Sterling silver sheet
-2 x 15mm Red Tiger's Eyes (Chemically Dyed)
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You can see the texture detail if you look closely.
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Still works like the day it was made!
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Still intact enough that I can get the lighter serviced if it ever breaks.
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The two cabs are placed in the exact same spot on either side.
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Benjamin Dickey
7760 B Penrose Ave
Elkins Park PA 19027 US
Phone: (610) 295-7437
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By the Way
If any of you want to try to do this make sure you pick up a Zippo Armor series lighter, it is a thicker walled lighter and you can purchase them in sterling. As with all hot working, your metal will become annealed when it is rapidly cooled (except steel which goes martensitic, ask me for more about this). My suggestion would be to slow cool and then clean up, your metal will lose only some of its hardness and especially in the case of an Armor Case, it will hold up longer. I had a lot of problems with the case bending out of shape when I set these stones which created a lot of extra work at the end.
» Posted by
PandimensionalMachines
on 3/13/2008 11:31:05 PM.
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