The Art of the Bodge

Necklace/pendant from non-{marble,Travertine} and some nichrome/copper wires

One evening, as I'd descended a staircase to acquire some food I noticed father abusing the table/counter(? whom is English?)-top/mantlepiece(? English is a mystery wrapped in an Enigma (which is to say, busted by the Polish)) next to the fireplace.
Seeing as he'd already discarded a cylinder therefrom, I unconspicuously grabbed it, and ran.

Fig. 1: The stolen cylinder in question, fresh from the presses stealin' sawin'.

Now, believe me and your eyes when I say she was nasty at that point, seeing as she was freshly cut out with a holesaw – surface dull as a middle-aged white dude in the suburbs of London, skid marks all over the perimeter.
There is but one (okay, two, as the other's throwing the bloody thing out, though) way to berid of these issues: sand it.

Fig. 2: The same cylinder, still in question, but sanded to a superiour sheen so as to better facilitate gawking.

And so, a quick trip to a certain Green-Triangle-branded Homeless Deathspot equivalent and a good fifteen minutes of going through all the sensible grits of wet sandpaper I could find there (320 (blaze it(?)), 600, 1000, and 2000) later, I managed to get her looking feisty (the shitstains look better IRL because you're not as close, probably don't have flash in your eyes, and I slathered some baby mineral oil on it afterward).

Now, this is the time I'd to finger out just what this thing was gonna be, and, seeing as it already had a semi-hole in it from the holesaw and a partially developed chain(? more on that later) had been hanging on the door handle to my bedroom for the best part of the past three months, I decided to go with a necklace pendant.
And so, a pendant requires to have a topological hole, as opposed to what amounts to a dent:

Fig. 3: I'm pretty sure about the cylinder now, and there's holes to hang it somewhere now!

Well, to make a hole one first needs to know what they're drilling in. Now, as is apparent from the title, and confirmable organoleptically, this is neither actually marble nor is it actually Travertine, but the reason these two were specified is that that's what the "experts" say about what it is, so it's probably something close to both, while being neither.
However, that is quite enough: it's roughly stone, and so carbide tooling should be used. But: was it? No, I didn't have carbide 2mm drills, so I just took the first HSS one I did have and hand-drilled (extremely engaging activity, recommend it!) it at an angle that's enough to meet with the original dent and in a place which showcases the cool brownish part.

Now, with that done and sanded, what to hang it on? Yes, of course your neck. But how?
This is where the aforementioned handle-wire comes in:

Fig. 4: Braid of Asian-hair-thin (according to Schwarzkopf) copper wire and two nichrome ones, roughly twice as thick.

This beaut, while absolutely brilliant, is a complete bitch to braid (some'd say it's more indicative of the operateur (hi!)), and so she hadn't made the cut, time-wise, for the birthday thermite pendant I ended up lacquering the day of, definitely no time to braid two 0.2mm coiled nichrome wires with a 0.1mm copper core (also technically coiled but so thin she doesn't hold shape).
Now that she's all done and terminated, is anything left but to tangle it into your hair hang it on your neck?

Fig. 5: Well, here she is, and ain't she pretty? (The necklace thing, of course, not me, pearls before swine and all.)

(No, there is not. Well, besides the tags, that is.)

#art-of-the-bodge #diy #art #womensart (I guess, also, technically?)

10/10 would bodge again