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WIP — Pierced Copper Ring">WIP — Pierced Copper Ring

21 April 2009

Progress has been made on the ring.
A flat piece of cop­per was ham­mered and then cut into a cir­cle.
That cir­cle was dapped into a dome shape.
The the tree bit was sol­dered onto the domed bit, mak­ing a hol­low orna­ment
A chunk of 12 gauge half round ster­ling wire was made into a ring band.
The top was then […]

Tagged as: piercing, ring, soldering

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Experiments — Wire Wrapped Cabochons

24 March 2009

I’ve been work­ing with wire the past cou­ple of weeks. One fas­ci­na­tion is how to use wire to cap­ture cabo­chons. I bought a bag of small glass cabs that remind me of candy. By using light weight craft wire I’ve been able to cre­ate some inter­est­ing cages.
Here are two:
The blue doesn’t seem to have enough wire […]

Tagged as: cabochons, design, experiment, wire

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WIP — Pierced Copper for JM1 Class.">WIP — Pierced Copper for JM1 Class.

24 March 2009

I’m tak­ing Jew­elry and Met­al­smithing 1 at the Pratt Fine Arts Cen­ter.
Our first project is a ring. The top is made of a piece of pierced cop­per sol­dered to a half dome. Below are pic­tures of the two tops that I made last week. The pat­tern is gluesd on with rub­ber cement and then holes […]

Tagged as: copper, piercing, ring

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Recent Work — Wire

15 March 2009

I’m learn­ing to work with jew­elry wire. Here are two recent (begin­ner) projects.
On the top a charm holder made of 14 gauge ster­ling sil­ver and five charms. You can learn to make the charm holder at the Bead Club in Wood­inville. It’s a very good use of three hours.
The sec­ond piece is a bracelet made […]

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