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Jan. 19th, 2007 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afmetalsmithAnother day of tricky soldering- both today and yesterday, in fact. I am developing Mad Skilz (sorry!) at soldering wee tiny things to honking great things. AND I seem to be able to communicate these Skilz, because last night's student did a brilliant job of some very tricky soldering indeed!
So I am nearing completion on a number of projects. I set a stone today, and have more to do tomorrow; I also did some polishing work. And I depletion gilded several pieces that will be enameled, and will be able to start enameling again any day now. That's always so satisfying!
The 2 parts of the locket- the one with the Hinge of Doom- are soldered together, so it's time to start the finishing work there. I'm not best pleased with it, all told- although the bail ROCKS- but I think it will be both pretty and functional even though it's not ideal. I have plans to make several lockets and locket-type items- like "poison rings"- to improve my hinge-making.
One of the bottlecaps is almost done- I shall glue the commercial cap into it tomorrow, and then set it as I would a stone. The other is progressing; I have the threads close to soldered down, except for one bit that's not staying where it ought. I think one more pass will do it, and then I can start the finishing. One of the enameled bits I have planned is going to be the decoration, and I may engrave it as well.
I also did some work on the hammered-texture ring that's the project-of-the-month on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metalsmithing. Maybe I can have it done this weekend! I love the idea, and want to participate.
Once I've cleared a few of my "pending" projects I can resume some of my experiments with granulation and filigree. I'm looking forward to that as much as to the enameling.
So I am nearing completion on a number of projects. I set a stone today, and have more to do tomorrow; I also did some polishing work. And I depletion gilded several pieces that will be enameled, and will be able to start enameling again any day now. That's always so satisfying!
The 2 parts of the locket- the one with the Hinge of Doom- are soldered together, so it's time to start the finishing work there. I'm not best pleased with it, all told- although the bail ROCKS- but I think it will be both pretty and functional even though it's not ideal. I have plans to make several lockets and locket-type items- like "poison rings"- to improve my hinge-making.
One of the bottlecaps is almost done- I shall glue the commercial cap into it tomorrow, and then set it as I would a stone. The other is progressing; I have the threads close to soldered down, except for one bit that's not staying where it ought. I think one more pass will do it, and then I can start the finishing. One of the enameled bits I have planned is going to be the decoration, and I may engrave it as well.
I also did some work on the hammered-texture ring that's the project-of-the-month on
metalsmithing. Maybe I can have it done this weekend! I love the idea, and want to participate.Once I've cleared a few of my "pending" projects I can resume some of my experiments with granulation and filigree. I'm looking forward to that as much as to the enameling.
