Category Archives: jewelry

WIP — Pierced Copper for JM1 Class.

I’m tak­ing Jew­el­ry and Met­al­smithing 1 at the Pratt Fine Arts Cen­ter. Our first project is a ring. The top is made of a piece of pierced cop­per sol­dered to a half dome. Below are pic­tures of the two tops that I made last week. The pat­tern is gluesd on with rub­ber cement and then … 

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Experiments — Wire Wrapped Cabochons

I’ve been work­ing with wire the past cou­ple of weeks. One fas­ci­na­tion is how to use wire to cap­ture cabo­chons. I bought a bag of small glass cabs that remind me of can­dy. By using light weight craft wire I’ve been able to cre­ate some inter­est­ing cages. Here are two: The blue does­n’t seem to have enough … 

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WIP — Pierced Copper Ring

Progress has been made on the ring. A flat piece of cop­per was ham­mered and then cut into a cir­cle. That cir­cle was dapped into a dome shape. The the tree bit was sol­dered onto the domed bit, mak­ing a hol­low orna­ment A chunk of 12 gauge half round ster­ling wire was made into a ring band. The … 

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