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My Jewelry Projects - Photos

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I've decided to just start a thread with my projects and learning as they happen instead of infiltrating every other thread on the forum.

Last night I cast a new ring that I had carved a couple nights ago. I skipped the vacuum chamber, and boy did I pay for it! What a fool. Thankfully, I was able to grind off all the bubbles, but what a waste of time. This was my second attempt at hot-dipping in pickle to achieve a pale/white look to the silver and I love it.


Silver Finishing

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Hi everybody. I'm fairly new to this forum, and enjoying it greatly. I'm one of those off-and-on jewelry-making hobbyists... getting more "on" recently and stepping things up. I'm pretty much self-taught (no classes), and probably lacking in a lot of the basics. I see a lot of beautiful finishes on silver out there, and wondering about a few of them. I will certainly be experimenting, but would love to get your opinions/input:


Last Night I Tried Steam Casting...

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... ant it worked beautifully!

I must admit that I didn't really expect results from this, seems kinda hokey. To that end, I only spent about 10 minutes making a wax model (that's my disclaimer as to the design of the piece). But curiosity took over, so I screwed a jar lid to a dowel and gave it a whirl:


New problems casting silver, centrifugal.

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In years past, I have cast some silver and gold jewelry successfully, techniques and equipment that are FAR from "by-the-book". Until this week, I had never used a vacuum de-bubbler. My burnout oven was a metal coffee can on top of a hotplate that surely never reached so much as 700 deg F (flask never glowed orange). And my centrifugal caster appears to be home-made (I bought it used), and only spins for about 30 seconds. With all this... I have cast some pretty nice stuff. But I'm trying to do better. So...


Chalice titled "Water"

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Chalice titled "Water"

This is a chalice made for the cathedral in Fresno, CA and used by bishop Steinbock. It is all hand wrought with the bowl and base made from 6'' disc of 18g sterling and the stem is a seamed cone in 18g sterling.


New to Art Metal and wanting to learn, learn, learn and make new friends!

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I am new to artmetal and I hope to make new friends and learn more about working with metal.

I have worked as a bench jeweler in the past and just recently set up a custom jewelry design/repair shop in a caboose in the Sandhills of Nebraska.


Need some advice about regulator settings for oxy propane

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Hi,

I'm a brand new member.

I've just setup my oxy propane tanks with regulators and have a Hoke torch for making jewelry.

I also do glasswork and beadmaking.
Beadmaking with a Minor torch. Both are set up together with a Y splitter so I can switch between torches.


Red Beachglass Cuff

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Red Beachglass Cuff

Three pieces of rare red beachglass set in Argentium Sterling Silver


Two beachglass pendants

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Two beachglass pendants

Cast in Argentium Sterling Silver...
Genuine beachglass I found here on Kauai.


Questions on making Copper-Silver-Zinc alloy

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Hi Everybody,

My first post here, a question:

I'd like to make an alloy of 80% Copper, 10% Silver and 10% Zinc, to be poured into lost-wax molds (plaster/sand) on a small scale (eg. 10oz total). Copper and silver have reasonably close melting points (Cu 1981F and Ag 1762F), but Zn has a boiling point of 1664F, meaning it could boil off before the other two melted.


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