repousse-chasing

next week I am going to chasse a mask out of alluminum sheet. tomorow Ill finsish my design model in clay(I actualy made a clay cast of my head for this model).
problem is I never realy worked alluminum before. I bought a sheet of 2 mm alluminum(guy didn't knew what alloy -_-). it seems to have good plastic ability. I think I can hammer it. what I need is advice on the following:

I´m new on this forum

gauchitogil - Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 9:11pm

repousse-chasing

Hello, I´m new on this forum. My name is René Bluhm, and I´m a german chaser/silversmith living in Buenos Aires/Argentina. Other works can be seen on my website www.landsmann.com.ar

close up

ambition - Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 7:54am

and...a close up

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my entrance piece for "bowl of humen delights" exhib: liquid pasion

ambition - Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 7:34am

my entrance piece for "bowl of humen delights" exhib: liquid pasion

this is my entrance piece for the exhipition I talkt earlier about. the hole piece has been forged, raised and chased out of a single billet of mokume. metals are silver copper and brass
piece is 28 cm in diameter and about 17 cm high. general shape whas inspiren on a drop of water falling and bounching back

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Kiss

workhorse - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - 1:38am

Sculpture Gallery | repousse-chasing

Did this one when I was first studying sculpture. I was training as a stone carver at the time and it would be some years before I really investigated metal work. Just goes to show you that sometimes a body work presents itself long before you are ready to see it.

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finel fabrication

ambition - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 6:54pm

chasers | repousse-chasing | silver | silversmiths | sterling silver

now I fabricated all the pieces and made hinges(hinges =moving parts, like a door.don't think i spelled that wright.) from scratch. this pic is made at the forge of my good friend and master willem jonkers III where I dit some overhoures to meet the deadlinge. after that I finished it with pumice stone(bit primetive but it works the best for an even surfice. try it) sandpaper and then policing.

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Suggestions for making threads on a sterling bottle

Gavaksa - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 8:39am

fabrication | repousse-chasing | whitesmithing

I'm looking at making a small sterling bottle and I want to put a screw cap on it like flask. Unfortunately, I have NO IDEA how to even begin to make the threads on the bottle, no less the cap.

Basically, I'm making an oil bottle and need to be able to screw the lid down to engage the gasket. I've run over a couple of ideas in my mind about how I might go about this, but none of them seem a good way to go.