Translation from Mind to Making..

My mind is a sometimes dizzy place, with way too many thoughts bouncing around and then going off on tangents..which then forces me to work backwards towards my original thought similar to that guy in Memoir.

This idea of 'leveling up' (Scott Pilgrim reference, sorry lol) has been on my mind and using raking w/ stringers has been something on the back burner for a while now.

I finally decided, "what can it hurt?", and just jumped in w/ no planning. Turns out, for me at least, that every d'oh! moment eventually leads to improving my technique. The first d'oh! happened when I dropped one of my brass micro shapers on the concrete, and wouldn't you know it, it was the supa sharp pointy tip that hit the concrete and caused a slight kink on the end. Which worked great at raking the stringers today!

The next time was when I blew a hole out on a hollow big hole bead and I was determined not to chuck it since I'd already spent 20 min. making it. Once I patched the hole, it had an interesting raked edge that my squirrely brain stored as an idea for later on. There's been a few other instances but I don't want to bore you or me listing them all.

While the execution of the idea is still a little rough, perseverance will now be my friend until I'm satisfied.

I'll try and get pics tomorrow after they're done tumbling.