The day job has been keeping me too busy to do much over the last month, but at the weekend I finally got a bit of time at my workbench to play with some new things.
Hammered sterling silver wire hoop with a small oak leaf in contrasting metal and a handmade bail from finer silver wire. The hoop was also textured slightly by going at it with a pair of ridged pliers to give a bit more depth for the LOS to work on.
First time using solder paste rather than pallions and pleased at how easy it was.
Also first time using oxidising products and my goodness LOS does stink!
This one is a fairly simple prototype to practice new techniques but I'm planning to work up some more complex designs on this theme. One of the things i'd like to do is engrave / score some veins on the leaf so I was wondering what would be the best tool for this? I have had a look at graver tools but there seem to be all sorts of different shapes and I'm really not sure which one would be best for this sort of task.
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