ICAP: Brought to you by the number 3 and the letters...

So, I've spent some more time working on the components for the Three Necklace.  I finished filing and cleaning the little 3s and started stamping the third verse onto copper sheet.  I made a few mistakes, like reversing the second D in divide because dyslexia apparently strikes every third verse.

 I stamped that word again.  As I stamped, I started wondering how often I was using each letter and whether they were multiples of 3.  So, OF COURSE, I counted.  And the winners are:  E, P and S.  I used E 18 times, S 6 times and P 3 times.  Polished Silver Excels. Sing, Every Person.  (and so on...)  Anyway, when I used metal shears to cut off the stamped strips, it created these cool curls. 

My next steps are to straighten the strips, cut the words into individual rectangles, file, oxidize, punch holes and blah blah blah.  Heh.  There were three blahs there.  Excellent Sophistry, Prof.