Last of the Butterflies!

The last portion of the "Bullets to Butterflies" exhibit were necklaces!
Saba, the artist, wanted us to fabricate butterflies from empty shell casings.

The empty casings were picked up from a local shooting range.

I drew up a butterfly set of wings in Aspire, and nested and toolpathed them out on the sheet.

We cut them from a sheet of .040 brass, using a tapered 1/16" ball nose cutter. I originally started with a 1/8" endmill, but it didn't quite get all the detail. I didn't want to chance my 1/16" endmill, so the tapered ballnose did the trick!

The last thing to do was punch the hole for the chain in the bullet, and solder on the wings. Saba actually did the soldering, which was pretty funny on the first 2, but she quickly got the hang of it!

We attended the local showing at the art gallery on Saturday, and the work by all three artists, Saba Syed, Huma Durrani, and Unaiza Karim was fabulous!
It was a great afternoon for both Jody and I!
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JWO