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This is the most complex one I've done so far, and I almost ran out of material (single straightened coathanger), so ~8 letters max. Coathanger is surprisingly difficult to bend into such intricate shapes. It took me around 2Β½ hours to do with two different types of pliers plus hand bending.

I literally freehanded this though, no predrawn pattern or anything, just following as close as I can to my own freehand cursive writing. I'm thinking about making a bit of a side job out of it, like $5 a letter..

What you folks think?

Edit: I made a point to weight balance it at the tip of the T for hanging on the wall or wherever.

Edit 2: Criticize me as necessary, my cursive is still slightly rusty..

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/cursive.html

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 45 points 1 week ago (35 children)
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[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Holy shit you got a harsh audience

It's pretty

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thank you πŸ‘

I actually appreciate the 'harsh' audience, for constructive criticism, and some comments here have given good useful advice where I should try to place my focus to make letters more easy to distinguish. But I don't consider hardly any of the comments as particularly 'harsh', more like just trying to be constructive.

While I'm definitely gonna keep all the constructive advice I've been given in mind, I'm still gonna mostly stick close to the cursive writing I learned long ago, just maybe with a little better emphasis on certain letters wherever I can.

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This fella crunching the hourly figure, and you're right πŸ‘

The one I posted was more of a practice piece to get back into the hang of it, this one for free, because she did us a good solid favor, plus I'm pretty sure she'll at least try to share my work and try to get me some more business..

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is a weirdly specific coincidence because Courtney was the first name I ever bent a metal wire into. I love that name and I love how it looks in cursive.

Next you should do "minimum"

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

After that, you should do antidisestablishmentarianism.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That's gonna take at least 4 coathangers homie, and I don't have a welding machine..

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

At minimum they should do minimum once

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

cowitney is a baller name... (I kid, must have been murder to bend this up, have used same material for sculpture armatures and it's cheap but strong)

and when they get older they can heat them up and use them to brand their mates and/or cattle.

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hmm, that's pretty cool. I think you could drastically speed up the process by superheating the metal somehow (blowtorch or something?)

Interesting that you were able to balance it from the 't' like that. Do you mind sharing how you did that?

I could see these also becoming popular for people to watch if you were interested in video production as well.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The balance was sort of a last minute idea, totally cold metal work.

Once I was basically done with the overall curve shape, I figured the tip of the T would be the best balance point, but the left side hang a little lower.

So, I ever so slightly compressed the left side and stretched the right side, until it balanced out. Just a little fudging on the kerning, until it balanced where I wanted...

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's a very cool and unique idea. Don't let haters get you down. But squeeze the vertical bar of the 't' together above the crossbar, for God's sake. I just can't with young people these days, half-arsing their way through life, I dunno ... !

πŸ˜‰

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's very difficult to fully fold the lowercase T in like that, hell I want to as well..

I mean like it's not impossible, but I also think to myself, like if you had to cross the T while you're writing a word, rather than after you're done as conventional, then how would your single solid stroke go?..

Thanks for criticizing my T's actually, I was wondering when someone would...

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cool! You inspired me to try something like that. I'm gonna try a slanted cursive modelled from my own writing.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Might need to reevaluate pricing. I certainly wouldn't do that for $16 an hour.

If people won't pay more, then it might not be feasible.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Criticize me as necessary, my cursive is still slightly rusty..

That's why I use plastic hangers

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