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| Shiny objects are hard to photograph. |
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| Work in progress..... Construction pictures are below. |
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| This was my basic plan, I sketched it out in GIMP 2.0. The blue rectangle is to be a ribbon. |
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| This is a thin piece of 14k gold. I sketched out the text I wanted to cut out with my Jeweler's hand saw. |
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| Disk for the main body of the medal, and arch for the sextant. You can see the beginnings of cutting out Ellensburg. |
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| The wire will dress up the arch. To get a good bend I filed out a notch or "V" to bend, in the yellow circle. |
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| Another piece of wire to rest on the disk and a mock-up. The bends are in the bottom wire and are soldered. |
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| Figuring out the gauge of wire for the compasses. |
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| Mock-up |
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| Ellensburg now cut out. Interesting shape left over. |
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| I re-drew the 3 and 9 as the original ones seemed too small. |
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| Ellensburg cut out mock-up to see if the title bar is big enough. It wasn't so I rolled it in the mill to stretch, ah north to south, I guess. |
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| This disk was taken to a laser engraver. It didn't work! Arrgghhhh. |
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| A wire is needed for the title bar to match the rest. |
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| I must have been doing something here, I took a picture... |
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| Compasses to the dome. |
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| Mock-up to see if the pieces work together. 2-d and 3-d are hard to transition between. |
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| Checking to see how close to the plan I am and if everything is still straight., The pieces to the right are a ribbon bar and the pin. I chucked the sterling in the flex shaft and spun it on a file to make the pin. |
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| This will be the hook for the main medal to hang from. Big pieces are easier to work with as small ones heat more quickly. |
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| While waiting for the tumbler for an hour, I took the scraps to make a ring. |
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| Tumbling the pieces. This process work hardens the metal to make it stiff and strong. It also cleans and slightly burnishes it. |
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| Like the blue, but there is no way to keep it that color. |
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| Soldering on the ring at the top. |
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| This is the back. I have an appt., to get it engraved. The pin is at the top and the bar below it is so that a ribbon can be attached, like black for a funeral etc... I should probably tell Ron that. |
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| We use all parts of the metals here.... |
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| In the box and ready to go! |
