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Building Bitzer

A 20-post collection

Building Bitzer part 7 More incredibly advanced techniques are revealed herein, my dear readers. If you are using Fray Stoppa for anything,...

Building Bitzer part 7

More incredibly advanced techniques are revealed herein, my dear readers.

If you are using Fray Stoppa for anything, please:

  1. Use protective gear. The cautions on the bottle recommend full hazmat gear. Alongside storage in a lead-lined bunker 20 miles below the surface of the Earth, after use.

  2. Don’t breathe the fumes

  3. Keep loved ones away from this stuff

  4. Make sure it’s sealed between uses

Seriously, though, this stuff is REALLY toxic. I got a little on my fingers when I was removing the seal [Pro-tip - use pliers or tweezers if you’re going to do it. I mean it about the gloves.] I felt the effects immediately. Including a slowly-growing burning sensation in the affected skin.

I soaked the cut ends of my ribbon and found something else to do during the five minute drying time. Mostly, keeping my darlings away from said toxic goo.

I kept one glove on during the process to make sure I didn’t get any on me, and exclusively handled the bottle with that hand.

The rest was delightfully easy.

Fold in half,
Manoeuvre into place,
Pin into place,
Set straight,
Re-assemble the back of the hat.

SELFIE TIME!

I look that stoned because I’m trying to line up the shot right.

Yes, my hair is going to be more orange when I cosplay Bitzer.

The hat’s done! Yay!

My tools and materials. Note that Fray Stoppa is firkin toxic and should not be allowed near anything alive.

My advanced drying stabiliser.

See if you can spot the itty bitty safety pin that's going to hold that ribbon on this hat.

My secret fastening method.

Folded and pinned into place

Then set properly.

Reassembled! Behold the majesty!

Front shot

And from the side.

And finally, as I plan to wear it.

Building Bitzer part 6 Adding the brooch backing was a relatively simple process, when compared to refining the front! The brooch backs cost...

Building Bitzer part 6

Adding the brooch backing was a relatively simple process, when compared to refining the front!

The brooch backs cost $2.49AU, which is one cent cheaper than the horrible tiny thing I’d have had to disassemble from a dollar shop. Remember, kids, it pays to look around and compare prices and options.

I had the shakes fairly bad, which made lining up the brooch back while I sharpies the dots in a little problematic, but as

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Building Bitzer part 5 My long-misused jewellery-crafting skills got a workout this afternoon as I turned a substandard necklace into a...

Building Bitzer part 5

My long-misused jewellery-crafting skills got a workout this afternoon as I turned a substandard necklace into a pretty nifty brooch.

I thought the chain would also be cheap and nasty, but no-o-o-o-o… It turned out to be some high-strength previously undiscovered amalgam of tungsten carbide or something as it was an incredible pain in the anatomy to try and break one link.

Even my trusty side-snips [pic 3] barely made a dent in them, but once that

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Building Bitzer part 4. I found the hat once upon a Halloween in a dollar shop and thought "Ooo! This looks like fun to play with!" And so I...

Building Bitzer part 4.

I found the hat once upon a Halloween in a dollar shop and thought “Ooo! This looks like fun to play with!”

And so I am.

Not shown is the really tacky rectangular buckle that, thanks to the simple fact that it’s plastic, we cut off with side-snips before I could document it. If I find a similar, pre-buggered hat, I shall photograph it for educational purposes.

The white feathery thing was a hair comb, purchased the

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