These are nowhere near done, and in fact are very dirty. But sometimes I think that the patterns left on a piece just after soldering are just so neat.
Dirty patterns
Four more stone settings
Man. I have to work on polishing these, but I figured I’d post a picture anyway — even if it *is* dirty. This brings my total up to 16. Thirty-four more to go….
Surprise in the mail!
Someone sent me a bunch of AWESOME little dichroic cabs in the mail 🙂 🙂 🙂 Now to design some silver to go around them…..
12 bezel settings
Thirty-eight more to go….. The I get to install a solar tube in my kitchen! By the way, i made all of the cabs used in these pendants and earrings, too. They’re glass. Some are dichroic and the striped ones were just a neat technique I learned about earlier this year.
Starting to feel lived in!
Here’s how the workbench fits into a whole wall of metal-working goodies 😀
Still needed: proper ventilation.
50 earring challenge
I finished 50 pairs of earrings last month.
Day 16 & 17 — metalwork
Been working away on that metalwork project for Feb. I’m about half done! Yeah! Too bad it’s a super-top-secret project because it would be fun to post pictures of it. Ah well. I can leave you with this, though. Here’s a preview of what’s involved in the super-top-secret-metal-project of mine 🙂
In February there will be more pictures.
Day 2 — copper stuff
The beginnings of some jewelry….
…..and I think I broke my tool 🙁 stupid cheap-o steel combo tool :[ Turns out that the inner screwy bits weren’t strong enough to withstand the torque and I believe a small portion of the inside is stripped on one side. doh.
Hopefully still useable on thinner gauges…. we’ll see tomorrow, I guess.
Copper disk earrings
I finally started using this etched piece of copper that I made in a class some 8 or 9 years ago. Of course, I forgot to take a picture of the metal sheet before beginning to cut it up. Sigh.
First, a pair of earrings:
Bails
Last week I practiced both basic soldering and mass production:
My mom asked for some bails for her glass work projects. The first 15 were kind of tough and rather annoying, but the next 20+ were easy peasy.