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Jun. 16th, 2007 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afmetalsmithAnother entry in which I apologize for not posting more regularly! And more vows to not let it happen again.
I spent a lot of time these past couple of weeks working on another site: the blog devoted to our experiences in beekeeping, called "Beemused". So far the bees have only inspired one piece of jewelry, and I need to finish it properly.
A sad thing happened in the jewelry line, too: the ring that's in this userpic got lost. It fell off J's finger one Sunday while he was feeding the birds; amazingly, he found it the next day... only to have it fall off again that day. It apparently decided to go walkabout. I think the next one I make for him will have his email address engraved on the inside!
...Which brings us to the problems we had this week with the engraving machine! There was an emergency need to engrave the inside of a ring for a family member, and the inside-ring module was simply NOT working properly. We took it partly apart and reworked it, and it helped- but not enough. I need to contact Gesswein about sending it in for repair; we'd gotten it from them refurbished, so I figure if they could refurbish it once, they could again. It was working fine when new, and I have no idea what happened to it; the linear motion is fine, but the rotary is catching and binding, as if the bearings had gotten flattened, or there's something in amongst them that ought not to be there. Annoying! We really do need to either fix it ourselves (heading into 'where angels fear to tread" territory), or get it properly fixed.
Fortunately, other stuff has been going well. I have most of my "engagement/anniversary/mother's" ring prototypes done, and am getting ideas for some more prototypes of wedding/commitment rings. I've posted a few pictures on AFMetalsmith, and more will be coming (hopefully soon).
I've also had a couple ideas for filigree that I've been working on. One's 3D, and is proving to be a mite tricky to solder! I'm just hoping I like it once I finally get it to work! The other is flat, and will be a great design to do in gold, I think. I've completed a pair of these in silver (the hot work, anyway- they need polishing and earwires), and like them a lot.
I've made strides toward completing my "mended hearts" scent lockets, too. Perhaps tomorrow I shall bite the bullet and see about finishing at least the hot work on those, as well as the soldering on my final engagement etc. ring, and perhaps even finishing the penultimate one- the stone's set and everything, so it just needs finishing and polishing. I think I will not be able to resist more work on the 3D filigree, though! and perhaps making the earwires for the silver filigree earrings that are prototyping gold ones.
I spent a lot of time these past couple of weeks working on another site: the blog devoted to our experiences in beekeeping, called "Beemused". So far the bees have only inspired one piece of jewelry, and I need to finish it properly.
A sad thing happened in the jewelry line, too: the ring that's in this userpic got lost. It fell off J's finger one Sunday while he was feeding the birds; amazingly, he found it the next day... only to have it fall off again that day. It apparently decided to go walkabout. I think the next one I make for him will have his email address engraved on the inside!
...Which brings us to the problems we had this week with the engraving machine! There was an emergency need to engrave the inside of a ring for a family member, and the inside-ring module was simply NOT working properly. We took it partly apart and reworked it, and it helped- but not enough. I need to contact Gesswein about sending it in for repair; we'd gotten it from them refurbished, so I figure if they could refurbish it once, they could again. It was working fine when new, and I have no idea what happened to it; the linear motion is fine, but the rotary is catching and binding, as if the bearings had gotten flattened, or there's something in amongst them that ought not to be there. Annoying! We really do need to either fix it ourselves (heading into 'where angels fear to tread" territory), or get it properly fixed.
Fortunately, other stuff has been going well. I have most of my "engagement/anniversary/mother's" ring prototypes done, and am getting ideas for some more prototypes of wedding/commitment rings. I've posted a few pictures on AFMetalsmith, and more will be coming (hopefully soon).
I've also had a couple ideas for filigree that I've been working on. One's 3D, and is proving to be a mite tricky to solder! I'm just hoping I like it once I finally get it to work! The other is flat, and will be a great design to do in gold, I think. I've completed a pair of these in silver (the hot work, anyway- they need polishing and earwires), and like them a lot.
I've made strides toward completing my "mended hearts" scent lockets, too. Perhaps tomorrow I shall bite the bullet and see about finishing at least the hot work on those, as well as the soldering on my final engagement etc. ring, and perhaps even finishing the penultimate one- the stone's set and everything, so it just needs finishing and polishing. I think I will not be able to resist more work on the 3D filigree, though! and perhaps making the earwires for the silver filigree earrings that are prototyping gold ones.
