Hello Everyone,
I’m sorry I have not posted in a very long time. I have been working on some wax models.
This one is a heart ring I was planning to make into an engagement ring.
This is a safety pin I designed with this opal in mind.
Hope you enjoy my blog.
-Erin
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This necklace is truly awesome! I love how it looks like a mechanical part of some kind.
I used sterling silver square wire to make the gears, and brass round wire for the rings.
The pendant is all constructed on a sterling silver tube which is flared on each end trapping the pieces onto it.
Each piece moves freely on the tubing, allowing you to fidget and play with it.
The entire pendant is roughly half an inch wide and half an inch high.
It is so fun to play with I had to make one of these for myself!
available in my shop on Etsy, Its ready to ship!
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This piece is inspired by one of my favorite movies from my childhood Watership Down.
This piece will eventually be a brooch, but before I put the brooch back on it I want to take a mould of it.
I will be filling the eyes with red resin and the entire piece will have varying degrees of patina.
After I take a mould of this I can change what ever I want on it , like remove the spirals or change the eyes and then take a mould of that too.
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I am trying to figure out how I am going to solder all these pieces together with three solder temps
The only thing missing from this picture is the bail
This is how they fit together
This is almost what it will look like with the addition of a ring for a bail and the hexagon piece of metal will be filed back and shaped
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This piece will have a 3 mm blue sapphire cabochon set in the top of the crystal setting.
It will have three concentric rings around the bezel made of graduating size wire.
This pendant will be quite small and will be comfortable around the neck.
check back in the future to see the finished piece.
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these are some earrings I designed a while ago. I am thinking about working on some unfinished projects!
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Tip Of The Month- May,09,2016
Hello everyone,
I have a texture hack for you today, this past winter I was wondering how to get that cool texture that is just like a soft mottled texture like I have on this piece I am working on.
I love this texture its like grunge texture and it will look awesome when I patina it. the trick I found is to use a weighted nylon mallet and a fire brick, just place the piece of metal face down on the fire brick and hammer it with medium force, you may also want to move it around to get more variety of pattern.
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This ring starts out as sheet and wire.
I hammer a pattern with a riveting hammer, first in one direction and then in the other direction to give it a cross pattern.
I then anneal it, bend it in to a ring, and solder.
now it is a wide ring, I sand one side flush and use my dividers to the width I want the ring to be, scribe and saw or file to the line the.
now I put on the finished spinner rings made of silver and gold wire. I then flare the sides of the ring with a dapping pinch larger then the inside of the ring and with a light tapping with a weighted nylon mallet flare the edges of the ring.
All done ready to wear!
For sale in the shop, made to order in your size!
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These earrings are truly awesome. in direct sun light the stones light up the inside of the copper cup (pic 6) . These earrings hang great and feel great a little on the heavy side at 5.5 grams, I used 20g/.80mm sterling silver for the body of the earring. The stone is some type of grossular green garnet and the shape of them is terrific, I used that in the shape of the earring body.
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