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As an ex-schoolmarm:
Very nicely formed letters, gold star β
I assume you were planning on underlining the n and adding its vertical line, so I'm allowing credit for that. I hope the distractions were fun rather than exasperating, other than the broken wire.
Have you considered your options for dotting your i ?
Yes, indeed I was looking to finish the last lowercase 'n' properly, along with proper underline to finish it.
Obnoxious distractions came along, which I'm disappointed with, but caused me to lose focus while bending the sharp points on the 'n', causing the break.
I spent hours on this, almost had the first practice prototype close to right, yet my roommate (who wanted to see me take it from paper sketch to real life), decided to act like a toddler while I was bending the last letter, like 'look at me look at me look at me...'
Stupid shit. I'm still disappointed with my roommate, he wanted to see me bring my pencil sketch to life, but managed to be a mosquito in my ear while bending the last letter.
I spent like 5 hours on it, sketch through bending...
βΉοΈ
Drat. I imagine the cursive is stronger, going to last better, for the same reason of fewer sharp pinches. But if you try again you'll know that's a critical point, and also the other tricks you learned doing the first one.
Yeah, those top 'tits', for lack of a better term, on the 'r' and the 'n' were about the tightest bends in the whole thing, and I had intended to fold the 'n' very similarly to the 'r', as apparently that worked, albeit a tight squeeze of a fit for the tools I'm currently using.
Those letters, plus the 'a', actually have 3 layers to them in a few spots to accomplish the shape, very tricky to get even close to right. Once a tight bend is made, there's really no going back.
The thing that happened with the 'n' is basically that my roommate got really annoying and distracting right about that time, and it caused me to lose focus and I made a bend 90β° in the wrong direction.
I pretty much knew it was gonna be a loss at that point, but I figured I'd try to salvage it anyways, but nope, it broke βΉοΈ
I do consider this a first of its kind for me practice piece anyways, so it's not a huge loss for me, plus I have plenty more coat hangers where that came from, so I'll just try again later.
Hey, I did learn quite a bit in the process at least, not quite sure about every letter in the alphabet yet, but I think they're all possible, just a lot of doubling back on many letters.
If it counts for anything, after I posted this, I went ahead and kinda bodged in a patch piece to finish the 'n' to see basically what the finished product would end up looking like. π€·
I'm sure if I try again later, it'll probably go a bit easier, as I won't have to stop and think as much which way to bend what, and can focus more on trying to be more consistent with the measurements.
The cursive ones I just freehand, no template, but trying to do print, yeah I need a template to go by, which is now drawn at least.
I like the cursive one best, it flows so beautifully.
Well thank you kindly π
Cursive is also easier for me, for what should be mostly obvious reasons. But sadly these days, more and more people don't really know how to read or write cursive, so I figured why not try to challenge myself and step my skills up a notch..
Unfortunately, doing this in print style takes more material, as I have to backtrack over more strokes and make more sharp bends, but as a first attempt, I'm not entirely disappointed. I'm almost certain the next time I try print style, it ought to be just a little easier (barely), and should hopefully come out a bit better.
Still, with all that said, I too prefer the cursive style, but sometimes I just like a good challenge...
Oh, as far as dotting the 'i', well it's impossible to do that with a contiguous piece of coathanger or other wire properly, so I figure if someone wants their 'i's dotted properly, well just stick a thumbtack in the wall above it LOL!
Unless you have another idea, I'm game for slight suggestions. Still, I'm gonna tend to doing such things as I see them.
But yeah, this experiment of trying simple underlined print proves extremely challenging, and also leads to more material use due to the extra sharp bends and overlaps taking up more material, so even if I would have completed my name in underlined print style, I would have just barely gotten the 5 letters out of it..
Thumbtack is good!