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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 […]

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Shiny…

16 February 2009

I took a PMC (pre­cious metal clay) work­shop with Mered­ith Arnold last week­end.
It took about 8 hours to make these four pieces in a class room. They are con­struc­tion sam­ples so fin­ish qual­ity is low.
PMC is nice to work with. The tools can be very sim­ple and it really does work like mod­el­ing clay. (Though […]

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