{"id":191,"date":"2010-01-02T13:19:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethwicker.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=191"},"modified":"2010-01-02T13:19:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T18:19:18","slug":"repousse-brooch-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/bethwicker\/2010\/01\/02\/repousse-brooch-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Repousse’ Brooch – finished"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished the custom order repousse’ brooch today, and am quite pleased with how it turned out!\u00a0 In my last post I talked about how I formed it using repousse’ and chasing.\u00a0 After forming, I sawed the brooch out of the background metal, then carefully filed the edges to the shape and smoothness I wanted.\u00a0 Next I used a texturing stamp and chasing hammer and textured the surface of the brooch.\u00a0 Once that was the way I wanted, I soldered the pin findings on the back (MUCH easier said than done – given the non-flat surfaces on the back!), then soldered on the bezel to hold the green onyx, then set the stone and gave the whole piece a final polish.\u00a0 I used a brass wheel in my flex shaft for the finish, but used a pumice wheel to finish the edges of the bezel around the stone after I hand burnished it.<\/p>\n

I’m really pleased with how this turned out!\u00a0 I love the way repousse’ and chasing allow me to form the metal, and plan to do a lot more pieces using these techniques.<\/p>\n

\n\t\"Front<\/a>\n\t

Front of the brooch in correct orientation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I apologize for the pictures – the color of the stone did not turn out very well.\u00a0 It is a lovely green onyx, and that doesn’t show at all!<\/p>\n

\n\t\"Side<\/a>\n\t

Side view of the brooch - the color is better in this one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n\t\"another<\/a>\n\t

another side view.... you can see the depth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished the custom order repousse’ brooch today, and am quite pleased with how it turned out!\u00a0 In my last post I talked about how I formed it using repousse’ and chasing.\u00a0 After forming, I sawed the brooch out of the background metal, then carefully filed the edges to the shape and smoothness I wanted.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/bethwicker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/bethwicker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/bethwicker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/bethwicker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/bethwicker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/bethwicker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/bethwicker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/bethwicker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/bethwicker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}