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Wow those are great Dennis, did you make all those charms? That little escargot whistle is sweet, though I try to avoid twisted wires as it has tested my patience too many times when the solder has...

Hi all,

I just thought I would share these little silver whistles with you. They are really old all around the late 1800's and early 1900's, mostly made my Sampson Mordan who were pioneers of...

I love your work ^^

I guess fair enough...£15 doesn't go far in the world any longer ^^

Its a crossed x, which is 1997.

I spent the day at an antique fair today and picked up a couple of items... one was a 1910 silver box with two complete sets of miniature playing cards in it for...

That does look highly effective, I am impressed not only with the colours but just the general smithing... hopefully I will pick up far more regarding the techniques involved in bowls, plates and...

It sounds like a plausible theory since it is the mechanism which is employed to operate a bi-metallic strip making it bend to complete a circuit. Having not worked in copped and silver in such a...

You probably should use white gold solder but I have seen it done with silver before...

I am not sure there's any particular pitfalls but I wonder if it will need rhodium to make it nice and...

I cant remember what I cast but I remember distinctly scoring the edges to get it lined up, carving a channel after pressing the shape in and wiring it all together before pouring in the metal from a...

When I say "small scale" I am referring to limited budget, IE no expensive equipment.

Excellent video, much better than using cuttlefish I think.

Ahh so it is a thing then ^^ I might have guessed there is nothing new under the sun!

Interesting thread PS-Bond, I see you have everything covered on this. Mine was just an experiment as I...

Thanks for the explanation. I am aware of the process of lost wax on an industrial scale, I was trying to imagine it on a small scale without such equipment. In which case it probably doesn't work...

Looking through my bits was a lump of blackened metal, it has been laying around for 20 years but started life as a lump of melted down scrap silver and a large copper coin called a cartwheel two...

I understand when you have the wax you make the mould from plaster of paris... but then two questions, does the wax run easily out of the mould when you heat it and is that what you use the furnace...

They have both turned out really well congratulations.

An interesting kind of catch too I wouldn't have thought to do it like that. I was expecting a tongue and box affair maybe with figure 8's...

Hi, I am new myself but welcome anyway ^^

Its good that since jewellery is such a wide field everyone has knowledge in different area's. Since my basis is from a very traditional jewellers I know...

Thanks all ^^

Well the white queen looks like she has had a drink or two so I must rule that one out... I guess the white pawns or maybe the rooks...

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Those look like a good idea Dennis, having made an pierced quite a few collets as an apprentice, I remember using a collet punch to get them straight but they were always round ones. I can't imagine...

A couple of years ago I decided I wanted a chess set, not your standard functional set but something of a talking point so I set myself on a path full of pitfalls and wastefulness.

The idea was...

Hello, I was an apprentice pattern maker when I left school, something I didn't entirely follow through on as I got side tracked into a retail jeweller doing repairs and then into pawnbroking. So I...