Last night's class "Learn How to Solder in An Evening" produced some AMAZING projects in a very short time! These students have NEVER soldered before, but you wouldn't know it looking at their projects. Each student created a band ring using textured wire, and then chose either a pendant, pin, earring or bracelet project- they all chose earrings! They worked hard to get them to match as close as possible and they all created works of art!
These earrings are by Susan, a painter at the Workhouse. She sketched out her idea, cut out matching pieces of 24-ga. sterling silver sheet, sanded, formed the spiral earwires, and soldered them onto the sheet. She then buffed the earrings and formed the earwires. Nice job!
These projects are by Rhea. She too traced her design onto sheet and cut the shapes out using bench shears, then carefully formed the spirals and soldered them onto the sheet. She also textured the sterling sheet before soldering to create some real visual interest.
These beauties by Roxan were created by cutting out triangular pieces of sheet and forming spirals out of wire to be soldered on top. The end of the spirals were balled up for visual interest. After soldering with medium solder, the earwires were soldered on back with easy solder as not to re-melt the solder on front. After buffing and bending the earwires, they're ready-to-wear!
Lorraine's earrings have almost a calligraphic look to them- she, too, formed the wire into a decorative shape and soldered it onto the sheet. After buffing and polishing, she bent the earwires into shape and wore her new earrings home!
Congratulations to all the students for producing such nice projects- no disasters, whew!
These are Lizzy's first pair of earrings! She cut out the square backplates from 24 gauge silver, then formed the spirals. Careful to get them flat, the spirals were then soldered onto the back plate, oxidized, buffed and the earwires bent into earrings.
Daphne chose to make a gorgeous pendant. She layered a teardrop shape of silver onto another larger teardrop shape, soldered them together, then formed and soldered a wire spiral to finish it off. She then drilled a hole for a bail, oxidized and buffed, and her work of art was done!
Laura made an I.D. bracelet of her daughter's name and birthdate. She stamped, soldered on the decorative wire, bent the ends, and attached some commercial toggles. She plans to attach some leather straps to the toggles to attach to her wrist.
