It's lovely Wallace, and so original. Making the jump rings isn't the difficult bit, it's soldering them all! You must have enormous amounts of patience and determination! I hope that you have a speedy recovery from the remnants of the virus.
It's lovely Wallace, and so original. Making the jump rings isn't the difficult bit, it's soldering them all! You must have enormous amounts of patience and determination! I hope that you have a speedy recovery from the remnants of the virus.
. Thanks Lydia, will do. X
now I remember why I stopped doing Chaine Maille.
thank you... I just had in my mind... I am being paid to do this! Lol. Must admit, I Loved every minute of it. Thanks for the get well, I hope my system finds the blighter and sorts it out soon, too.
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Wallace, that's lovely. Admire your patience for chain making. I quite like the almost zen like state I get in when I make chain. It's so repetitive but you have to pay it just that little bit of attention which blocks out unwelcome thoughts!
Didi
Lovely. I'd never heard of a chatelaine though, so had to look it up.
Wow, what a lot of work in that piece Wallace, the result is lovely
thank you Didi, must admit, I got a system going after a while! lol
Thanks Carole - me too! lol
Thanks Jill, it was a lot of work - and under estimated on the time it took to make the chain, but hopefully something to bear in mind in the future.
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That is really nice! There are so many interesting historical jewellery you just don't see, how amazing you got to make some of it.
That's beautiful, well done you. I adore chatelaines, and used to have a few bits of them years ago, but never a complete one. I've always thought they should make a comeback.
You can get a good aged patina on sterling by using a mix of wire wool and those metal sprongly scourer things. What i do is rub them between my fingers…. a motorised thing makes too much of a uniform pattern I found. Then patinate in LoS or whatever and then hand polish with a rouge cloth. I do it watching the box.
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