What am I making today?

[davidbaggaley]

I am going to post each day showing some of the items i make showing pictures of the items been made and the finished piece

These are some star pendants that an engraver has bought

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and these are the rest of the pictures

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today i have been making wedding ring mostly

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one of the things i have been doing today is working on a dog design to be made into charms for a order the customer contacted me with a request for there dog to be made into charms pendants and earring

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[Keia]

These are brill! Please keep posting, love seeing what everyone else is working on =D

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i will be posting later on sunday had a couple of days off

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woops forgot all about this im back

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this is a bulldog pendant a request by a shop who use my saw piercing to make there pendants and charms40444045404640474048

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[Goldsmith]

David, nice design idea.
May I ask if you always use a paper design stuck to the silver to pierce around, and do you use flies to clean up your design after piercing?

James

[davidbaggaley]

normally yes I use paper and a glue and mostly the designs only need a little work with a file i never file the face of the silver but sand buff it

[Goldsmith]

I always find that piercing through paper is never accurate enough for my type of work.

Here are some examples of my piercing.

James

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[davidbaggaley]

Some very nice designs james very ornate i guess they are for the middle east

[Goldsmith]

Some very nice designs james very ornate i guess they are for the middle east

The prayer was for The Sultan of Oman, but the table centrepiece with rock crystal bowls was made for a UK customer. The silver bowl piercings was something I did when testing out the Knew Concept saw frames, that is something that I kept for myself.

I did have a book published in 2009 if you are interested in seeing most of my best work.

James

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[davidbaggaley]

They are very nice and i would imagine very expensive pieces quite a lot of hours would be needed to make those

What did you think to the new concept saws

I have seen quite a bit of your work on ganoskin very impressive :-)

[Goldsmith]

They are very nice and i would imagine very expensive pieces quite a lot of hours would be needed to make those

What did you think to the new concept saws

I have seen quite a bit of your work on ganoskin very impressive :-)

When I tested the Knew Concept saw frames for Lee Marshall, I wrote him a complete report explaining my likes and dislikes. Lee considered my comments and added the cam lever attachment to the saw frames and this makes the saw frames excellent. They are so light that I found them great when I was piercing some table lamp shades which had thousands of holes to pierce out. My favourite saw frame at the moment is my titanium model Knew Concept frame.
Not everyone likes them, but when you reach my age they make long piercing jobs easier to handle. The last pair of table lamp shades I pierced took me 6 weeks solid piercing work to complete, they had a total of approximately 8000 holes to cut out.
James

[davidbaggaley]

I will have to try the titanium ones i think as the the aluminium ones maybe a little too light for me yikes 8000 holes for 6 weeks would be a killer on ya arm and shows how good these are if the lever held up? Truely Awesome :-)

[solitarysmagick]

James your work always astonishes me! I love the silver bowl in the last pic.. beautiful work :) I am trying to practice my piercing techniques at the moment and I'm finding I'm getting better and better at it each time, lots more practice before I get anywhere close to your standard though! :) What mm sheet do you use most often?

[Goldsmith]

James your work always astonishes me! I love the silver bowl in the last pic.. beautiful work :) I am trying to practice my piercing techniques at the moment and I'm finding I'm getting better and better at it each time, lots more practice before I get anywhere close to your standard though! :) What mm sheet do you use most often?

For bowl overlay piercings I use 1mm thick sheet, the silver bowl piercing was for an overlay on a guilloche enamelled silver bowl, a method I have used successfully many times.

James

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[ps_bond]

I've now got my smallest saw retrofitted with a cam lever - it makes one hell of a difference in piercing being able to reattach blades quickly. Cutting azures for stone settings meant I had switched back to my old saw; not since the change though.

Sorry to add to the questions James - do you drill for piercing with a motor or bow drill? Been using my bow drill again recently and finding it very relaxing.

[Goldsmith]

I've now got my smallest saw retrofitted with a cam lever - it makes one hell of a difference in piercing being able to reattach blades quickly. Cutting azures for stone settings meant I had switched back to my old saw; not since the change though.

Sorry to add to the questions James - do you drill for piercing with a motor or bow drill? Been using my bow drill again recently and finding it very relaxing.

I use my trusty old pendant drill for drilling holes pre piercing, it is one of the old types with a start button on the drill piece handle and I use a wax candle for drill lubrication.I also have one of the pendant drill with the slip joint on the flexshaft, complete with a quick release handle for holding burs and a hammer handpiece, this drill has the foot pedal speed regulator. I wouldn't like to drill 8000 holes with a bow drill:-)
James

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I wouldn't like to drill 8000 holes with a bow drill:-)

Er, yes - fair point. 50-100 wouldn't be too bad, but 8k would probably have me reaching for the pendant motor too!

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the one i have for today is hand forged cake server and showing some of the stages this was forged hot 40684069407040714072

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[caroleallen]

That really is lovely. Thanks David.

[Dennis]

They really are beautiful, David. How do you prevent firescale all through this process? Dennis.

[Caseyla]

Beautiful pieces David, I really like them!

[davidbaggaley]

Hi

I dont prevent the firestain as you cannot forge hot with any coating on the silver so the fire stain is removed at the end by filing and sand buffing

[Caseyla]

Hi everyone,

Made this today and it's the first piece I have made in my wee spare-room workshop, feels good to slowly but surely get back into the swing of things, woo :) It's a cast silver twig which I had left over from my college days and a cabochon amethyst my friend brought me back from New zealand along with some other cobochons. Glad to see they're getting a bit of use now after lying in my tool box for the past 5 years.

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[Caseyla]

Argh sorry David, I posted this in your thread without even realising :o