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enlarge 69KB, 720x362 23 Filed all edges with two grades of files, then used 4 different grits of fine sanding until totally smooth. Shaped on anvil.
enlarge 65KB, 640x554 24 After final buffing and shaping before washing
enlarge 54KB, 640x552 25 Cleaned up and ready to pack up to mail.
enlarge 54KB, 610x640 26 Top-stamped inside with year and my marks.
enlarge 56KB, 640x536 27 Ready to ship! 10:45am. Print card, label, wrap, make box, take to mailbox. 11:15am.
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enlarge 68KB, 536x640 30 Copper handles for under sink cupboards "I love these! What a great..." View Comments...
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enlarge 61KB, 640x509 37 Fine Silver and Cultured Pearl Peas in a Pod Earrings.
For Melissa Hatfield, Ziaggo Sporthorses, TX
enlarge 68KB, 546x640 38 1 1/2" from top of earwire. All pieces hand formed and made.
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enlarge 65KB, 640x563 46 my new necklaces, featuring my handmade clasps and bead caps.
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enlarge 76KB, 640x611 50 Showing where it will go so it covers the know of the silk thread.
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enlarge 51KB, 467x640 66 Fold Formed Burdock Leaf with coral, labradorite, Cultured Pearl, and Trade Bead Necklace. Hand made clasp.
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enlarge 1.78MB, 640x544 74 Set for Erin Buffaline Mechanicsville NY
2 1/2" Fine Silver Cuff with Czech flowers, matching Fine silver ring, Fold formed Heart Earrings, and Pendant.
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enlarge 60KB, 640x535 83 Erin's earrings for her set, all finished.
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enlarge 52KB, 588x640 87 Back. The color on the heart you see is reflection of the ceiling beams.
enlarge 57KB, 640x553 88 After sawing out heart pendant (3" x 3") and earrings (1 1/2" x 1 1/2"), filing, sanding.
enlarge 52KB, 605x640 89 After drilling holes for bails, and flowers, and hammering in ruffles.
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enlarge 57KB, 640x628 91 Back of pendant with stamps.
enlarge 47KB, 720x410 92 Back of earrings with L and R so they are put on correct ears.
enlarge 57KB, 640x578 93 Very dimensional, and will lay perfectly.
enlarge 68KB, 640x525 94 test piece for Erin in Copper. Not the metal or colors of flowers I'm going to use, but just to let you see what the form/design is. Piece is 2 1/4" x 2 1/4". heart with twisted silver bail pendant.
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enlarge 70KB, 640x536 116 2 1/2" wide Fine Silver Fold Formed cuff with vintage Swarovski Beads wired on.
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enlarge 61KB, 720x447 128 I finally got around to figuring out what to do with the 1/2 cut steel belt buckle with the gorgeous Robins Egg Blue cabs. I made it into a barrette for myself. I had to remove the findings on the back, and file off the edges, and then wired on the barrette back. This is 4" with a slight dome and 1 1/4" wide.
enlarge 59KB, 720x438 129 Back
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enlarge 68KB, 640x634 134 Shown with measurement paper. This shows that it was made from the customers measurement paper.
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enlarge 67KB, 640x631 137 approved for cuff 5/27/12
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enlarge 81KB, 633x640 140 Copper Fold Formed Cuff with Swarovski Crystals, in hot pink, black diamond and tourmaline. 2" wide.
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enlarge 59KB, 640x552 148 Test cuff.
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enlarge 78KB, 640x603 155 Barrette for Mary Ann Wilson.
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enlarge 66KB, 640x599 161 Test piece for Erin Buffaline.
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enlarge 72KB, 640x637 165 Full Copper Fold Formed Bangle with Turquoise and Rock Crystal with Sterling ends.
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enlarge 74KB, 546x640 168 Balanced Coverage, Brass Fold formed cuff. Love to wear this.
enlarge 84KB, 640x625 169 Brass Fold formed Cuff with Garnet bicones, Peridot RS bicones, and rough rock crystal.
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enlarge 74KB, 640x561 173 All tools I've resurfaced, remade, or made for working metal
enlarge 60KB, 543x640 174 white pieces are Delrin stakes used with metal hammers for antic last design. I still have work to do on these, but it takes a long time with round large files. This stuff is unbreakable.
enlarge 59KB, 640x465 175 Surfaces are always polished after filing and sanding
enlarge 56KB, 640x454 176 Prong and stone and bezel tools and one with a design on the edge-8 gauge copper
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enlarge 58KB, 640x411 178 Carpet tool that I use for cutting 1" stall mats, and opening folded metal. The three wavy tools behind are called Sinusoidal stakes. I made these out of in line engine punches from Sears. They are 14'. 9" and 6", and made with a large welding torch and acetylene bending with a pr of vise grips , cooling slightly and creating another bend. They have to be cooled by leaving alone, not quenched, then sanded and buffed because metal has to be formed over these, so they have to be smooth.
enlarge 91KB, 621x640 179 Very sharp edge. I've sliced myself on this before.
enlarge 56KB, 640x577 180 8 gauge copper wire made into stamps, bezel setters, prong and stone setting tools.
enlarge 95KB, 628x640 181 The 2Cent tool I use the most. I'm not sure what it was used for, but I sharpened it to razor sharp, sanded and polished. It is steel, and I use it to open prongs and then closing them with the back of this. This is similar to an oyster and clam opening tool we used in SC on the boats, but I've made it much thinner.
enlarge 54KB, 720x381 182 Back of my 'scorper' which is what I call it.
enlarge 62KB, 720x384 183 Very thin, very very sharp.
enlarge 95KB, 720x396 229 Red top, alternating gold and clear on bottom. For Kat Finderson
enlarge 74KB, 640x632 230 Cynthia Fore Miller's ring
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enlarge 31KB, 720x176 239 When I got this bracelet, it had several areas of Verdigris, and corrosion.
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enlarge 44KB, 720x432 241 Close up of the damage, after carefully removing as much of it as possible. You can see the Verdigris has created a hole in one of the balls on the left side of the face panel on the left.
enlarge 26KB, 720x296 242 After final hand sanding with 5 different fine grit cloths.
enlarge 35KB, 720x358 243 Still showing corrosion and verdigris. If left unchecked, and stored with other jewelry, this will spread and disintegrate other metals. Although this is marked Sterling, the process of finishing in the pickle, was probably contaminated the sterling, and ended up plating it unknowingly. You can see the hole in the ball better in this photo.
enlarge 39KB, 720x181 244 After final buffing.
enlarge 39KB, 720x183 245 Much better show of Sterling. It will now be carefully stored in a baggie, and will develop a natural patina, which is NOT the same thing as Verdigris or Patina. Patina is the natural oxidation by the air or wearing of the Sterling, which gives darker areas around the work.
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enlarge 82KB, 720x379 247 First 3 panels.
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enlarge 65KB, 640x485 263 3" x 2" copper fold formed leaves, and 12mm labrodite stone.
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enlarge 74KB, 720x443 265 Cuff from Gayla. Lovely but a bit big-haha The opening was about 3", so I knew it was going to have to be reformed.
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enlarge 67KB, 720x432 268 As you can see, this would work for a man but not most women. It would have been about 9" or so.
enlarge 86KB, 605x640 269 Finished cuff, formed to fit, and filed, sanded and buffed to 1500 grit, finished with Fabuluster. "OMG,OMG,OMG Dinah this is ..." View Comments...
enlarge 101KB, 635x640 270 "I love this so much!" View Comments...
enlarge 72KB, 640x435 271 after pickling this is what I had. "I cannot believe the trans..." View Comments...
enlarge 64KB, 720x426 272 I formed it to fit. "great deconstruction expla..." View Comments...
enlarge 72KB, 640x474 273 inside, notice the thin lines around the top edge of the cuff. This was a flat piece of stock that was soldered to another piece of stock that was pierced and sawn to create the design.
enlarge 70KB, 640x469 274 After initial sanding with 320 grit. You can see the lines, so I had to be really careful when annealling with the torch, so that the solder didn't melt. I think they must have used hard solder, as it stayed in tact, but then just surface filed it with a jewelers file, and left it, so the edges were quite sharp and coarse.
enlarge 71KB, 640x427 275 This is about half way through the sanding, about 800 grit.
enlarge 78KB, 640x450 276 It's getting better.
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enlarge 104KB, 640x593 278 Lines are starting to disappear.
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enlarge 111KB, 720x447 280 After micro papers about 1500.
enlarge 95KB, 640x477 281 After polishing by hand with rubber grit stick
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enlarge 60KB, 640x444 286 Here are photos after it was cleaned up and I buffed it with Fabuluster and my buffing wheel.
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enlarge 41KB, 576x393 290 Unfinished ring on the side is going to be an open top box ring (these are made with an inner and outer ring with two sides, all soldered. I still have to hand saw the inside disk out, saw off the outside bottom plate, add the top plate, saw that off, add the stones, weave and solder the wire through weaving it so that the stones don't fall out. This one will be an open top, with loose stones, and a sterling wire woven top.
enlarge 65KB, 410x576 291 first side soldered on and inner and outer plate hand sawn off. Then I placed it on the other plate, soldered and sawed it, drilled holes, and finished it before setting amber and wire.
enlarge 35KB, 576x458 292 all finished. Took lots of hand filing to smooth out all the edges.
enlarge 38KB, 576x528 293 wire is soldered on one end inside, then pushed through one hole, through the bead, with a half knot and pushed down through the other side.
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enlarge 94KB, 579x640 305 Folded in half, brass heart for pendant.
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enlarge 57KB, 640x431 323 3 strands of 8gauge Sterling, Silver caps soldered on ends after twisting. Preliminary finish. Needs more. 3/8" diameter, 50 grams weight.
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enlarge 82KB, 640x501 325 Copper 6ga. twisted bangle for Sean with hammered ends and silver. Funny how it resembles a horses head. LOL
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enlarge 94KB, 613x640 343 Net Rolled Cuff with carnelian colored agate stone with bubbles-Name?
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enlarge 99KB, 619x640 362 brass, template, copper, tissue. Template needs to be reversed. The color printed logo, after it gets cut out, needs to face the brass, then the template, then the copper, then the tissue, taped together and then rolled.
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for Daniel Day-Hamden, CT
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enlarge 71KB, 640x458 396 The 14gauge pipe is 3" wide. I was thinking of this the other day, but it's HUGE. The copper piece behind is 4", the small copper piece is 2" and the brass cuff is 1 1/4".
