Friday, October 14, 2011

Reppousse earrings 2

Here they are nice and polished
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Reppousse Earrings

These earrrings were hammered out, using a cancave tree stump and a ballpeen hammer.
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Both pairs of earings for the Anglo piece

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Domed Ring with bezel setting

This is my first Bezel setting, using a imitation Beryl CZ. The domed ring is sterling silver, it was made in first year and used this year to practice setting. Exciting!
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Flat links

The flat links are made bu peening the edges over a polished piece of steel called a punch
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

HAMMER TIME!

This how each piece is made, the domed pieces are made by hammering the pebble shaped plate on a log with indentation of various sizes.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Skipping stones

This is the design, as u can see it is straight forward. It consists of 22 pieces; 11 flat and 11 repoussed shapes. The contrast between matt and burnished shine adds to the appearance of the piece.....
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Monday, September 5, 2011

Sneak peak

This is the idea stay tuned to this space and see the more progress
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Sunday, September 4, 2011

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Link of AngloGold piece. The piece is called" skipping stones"
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Heraldic brooch

This brooch was an exercise in enameling and manufacturing techniques. The animal(apologies for the wrong terminology) in the center of the brooch is a bull symbolising valour and bravery
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Thursday, September 1, 2011

18ky GOLD

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Beginning with AnGloGold

A repoused pebble shape a piece in a neck piece, the effect i was trying to achieve is the appearance of a pebble
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

anatomical ring

hammered texture on this ring.
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anatomical ring

hammered texture on this ring.

Anatomical ring shape

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Anatomical ring

Hello again everyone, back from the holidays. This is an anatomically shaped sterling silver ring with a hammered texture on the top half of the ring, please excuse the quality of my pictture for the next little while I'm still learning to use my camera cherio
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