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Made this yesterday, but my wife thinks it is a bit of a drip!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220701/22e0f00beb20995d29297aeef113df1d.jpg


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Something we don’t often read about! Possibly don’t want to admit!
I spent the whole day making a pendant with a large Tigers eye cab set in a “nest” of wire. I congratulated myself on making the...

Ha,ha…yes! I have a number of tools recommended by Dennis from ring bending pliers to fine diamond files to eveflex polishing sets, to………you name it. Maybe he should get a commission from these...

Nick….je suis d’accord avec vous……. Hint my « nom de plume » is Ruedeleglise!!!!!!


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Yes welcome. I am in the same boat as you but have been doing it possibly for a longer time than you and have therefore had more problems….I can assure you if you ask you will get advice. True it is...

Hmmm that does ring a feint bell…thanks
David


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Firstly, I am not in any way an expert. I am a relative beginner and I am not instructing rather I am making observations from my limited experience.
There are reams written on annealing by many...

Yes I follow your thoughts….maybe another one!
David


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There isn’t a lot emphasised about this black art and yet having now studied the subject in more detail I realise it is so important. It makes forming and bending so much more controllable and easy....

Found a piece of silver wire….2mm floating about in my bits box! I did have this amber cab and then I will admit saw an illustration. So as I am departing for the moment from the symmetric, off I...

Oh thanks!


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Phew! I feel all warm and loved!! But still need your advices and stimulation. Thanks.


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Strewth! It seems to have worked……


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Well I decided to jump out of my symmetry rut and have made a totally asymmetric necklace for a friend and two other necklaces which are….well symmetrically asymmetric! If I knew how to show you...

Yes it was a favour!


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Well luckily my friend having been shown the item was totally happy! She said “a blind man on horseback…….etc” She has long hair and it will totally hide the small amount discoloured! Yes lesson...

People! I had a lady quiz me like the gestapo as to wether my silver was in fact silver because a pair of earrings had irritated her ear lobe piercings. I had to work hard to convince her they were...

HELP! Just re gold soldered a tiny closed jump ring onto an earring for a friend. These very light earrings I have found out are gold plated and of course the area round the soldering has burnt off...

That looks wonderful. Home made tools always have pride of place in my workshop. Annoyingly I had all those components when we lived in France but inevitably with downsizing ……..the winch and the...

Ouch…..does that mean another “toy” to buy?! A draw bench and plates?


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Yes…..I think “the line of least resistance” , comes into the equation!


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Do we all get stuck in a rut occasionally? I am finding that I am repeatedly making essentially similar pieces because the jewellery/craft sales that I take pieces to to sell and thus finance new...

They look really special. Did you use square wire?
David.


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I really like that pendant!


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Oh my. Well done with them all. Above all, enjoy!


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