Stone Setting

I've been learning stone settings/stretching silver this week...

So pretty and green in the sunshine!

Medal #3

I Still need to polish this bad boy up. 

The other side of the medal:  (the difference in colour is due to poor lighting)

 

Bee

Silver Bee

Managed to get some better photos of the Silver Bee Pin today.

Bronze honeycomb

Silver stag

These are some good looking rings.

Spent all day polishing these.

Look at that shine.

Cast in sliver and bronze

Silver Bee Pin

On a honey comb base . Cast in solid silver as a Christmas gift for my mum.

It's hard to get a good photo of this as it's silver on silver. This casting came out so well! All the legs and wings came out.

Medal attempt #2

Medal attempt #2

No bees and a circular shape. 

I still need to clean it up and file down the edges. 

Silver stag

Medal attempt #1

Medal #1

Heres the wax version.

The bees didnt come out as well.

Lakeside Project

Lakeside Project

For this project we had to create a piece which was inspired by the artifacts at Lakeside Arts Center - Nottingham.
For my inspiration I chose these two iron age broaches.

 I made rings in bronze and silver using the lost wax casting process. I wanted the rings to have a rough edge to them, but have the same pattern as the broaches.

Here you can see the spru I used to cast the rings. - looks a lot like a belt buckle here!

Silver Ring:

Im planning on selling them as a set of stack able rings.

 

I need to polish them more in order to get a better shine out of them.