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Pierced Bird Window

1 September 2009

This lit­tle cop­per piece is wait­ing for a home. It’s about 2.5 inches square. The back­ground and fig­ure win­dow are cop­per. The tube riv­ets and spac­ers are brass. The back­ground pat­tern was printed onto the cop­per using a com­mer­cial pat­tern sheet with the rolling mill. The bird fig­ure is a sim­pli­fied out­line taken from a Dutch tile […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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