Blogging for those of us who aspire to be a silversmith

…..it is only a test.  In the event of a water landing your hammers, anvils and hoards of precious metals can not be used as flotation devices despite how much they cost.Why is this a test?Hanuman has installed the WP-o-Matic for me, so what I publish here on The Adventurous Silversmith will appear also on my Ganoksin Blog. It might take 24 hours to appear bit it will save me time. […]

Back in December, I picked up a large “rustic” ball stake off of ebay for about 40 bucks before shipping costs. It is almost 3″ in diameter and brand new something like this would cost almost $200.  It looks like an old and possibly home made stake because the tang is long and round plus only the bottom of the tang is square to fit into the hardy hole of an anvil.   The stake is/was black and had qu […]

I think she is trying to come out… Over the weekend I was talking to my trainer (at the gym for weights) and we were admiring each others earrings.   I was wearing my cross-forged drops and she was wearing what was circle with graduated forged drops that could slide back on the circles. So this weekend, I am going down to Debs to make another pair of cross-forged drops for Caroline and a pa […]