Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Midway Through Beginning Metalsmithing

Last night's class produced some awesome finished projects!

This is Lizzy's "Globe" pendant. She designed then pierced and sawed out the globe in sterling silver and then soldered it and a wire border onto a copper backer sheet, which was also sawed out, pierced for a bail, and tumbled till it shined!


This is Daphne's pendant. She also sketched out her design, then pierced and sawed out the design, and hammered it for a nice textured finish.


Daphne made a beautiful bracelet out of 16-gauge sterling silver wire. Each link was coiled, cut, filed and soldered, before being hammered and tumbled for shine. She even made the S-link closure!



These fun wire earrings were made by Laura- she matched set a pair of 16-gauge wire squiggles, then soldered on some 20-gauge earwires, hammered and tumbled.





This beautiful rustic ring by Laura required piercing, sawing, texturing, soldering and tumbling. She also formed the ring on a mandrel to get it round, and soldered some gorgeous copper accent pieces on.




This is another view of Laura's ring.
Nice work everyone!





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