Ring-A-Ding (or part 1 of learning to make a ring)

May 12, 2009

Last week, I started a 3 session class at the Palomar Gem and Mineral and Gem Club http://palomargem.legendearth.com/.  This class is focused on making a ring using a bezel set cab and double half round wire for the shank.  In this class we are not placing the cab and silver setting on top of the […]

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Working on the Chain Gang

May 9, 2009

I have been working my way through Making Silver Chains: simple techniques, beautiful designs by Glen Waszek, and as I made each chain my soldering has gotten better: less messy (too much solder, bumps, voids, small gaps) and I am not soldering 2 or more links together or having to re-solder a link; and the […]

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Silver Mounted Cab’s

May 2, 2009

I have been trying to finish a few projects so here is another flurry of pictures This is my first silver mounted cab. There was a class down at the Palomar club in March, which ran for 4 weeks. We started off with the basics: Make a bezel, pickling, saw/cut the backing, soldering down the […]

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History Part Three: Silver Chains

April 30, 2009

Part One was about Rocks making cabs Part Two was about learning to wire wrap So now, in Part Three I will tell you about my discovery of chains and my start of working in Silver Again it was late 2008 and I had made a few wire wrap pendants and I went shopping for […]

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Toolboxes: Hidden Treasures and Long Lost Memories

April 27, 2009

My father was a self made engineer. In High School, he was in the metal/machine shop courses;  it was the ’40’s and there was no money for college.  Right out of High School he joined the Navy as WWII was in full  swing, and became a machinist’s mate. After the war he then got a […]

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Life interferes with art (mine)

April 24, 2009

It’s been a crazy week. Don’t you just hate it when your day job interferes with you hobbies! That’s not to say that I don’t like my job. I have always said that if you are not enjoying what you are doing thenfind either a new job or a new career. I am in my […]

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History – Part Two : Wire Wrap

April 15, 2009

As I explained in Part One (read it here) Obi-Wan-Don taught me how to cut, grind, and polish cabs. I had become a cab producing fool, as I now had all of these cabs  and nothing to do with them and looking at them can only get you so far. Obi-Wan’s wife Bonnie is an […]

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Taking Care – Again

April 13, 2009

Yup, I did it again…. After my last post, I pulled out a rhodochrosite cab I made a few weeks ago. Then, after doodling a few ideas for a shape, I started to work on a pendant. I cut the 22g sheet fine, then refined the shape by filing a bit. I made the bezel […]

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Taking more care

April 11, 2009

A few weeks ago I started three silver pendants. Why three? I have no idea but it certainly bit me in the butt. I have always been a project “singleton”. That in the sewing world means “one project at one time” and it even implies that you don’t buy fabric or patterns en-mass with the […]

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My Workspace ’cause it ain’t a studio!

April 6, 2009

When we bought our house, I got the bonus room! It a huge 16′ by 16′ space over the garage. It cost a bit more money but I had a sub-floor laid and vinyl floor laid. What I found interesting was that the carpet was considered “standard” – I guess the foam padding means they […]

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