Hello, I'm Larry Gordon and I'm a total novice - just completed my first piece; a fairly heavy cuff from 1.5mm silver sheet. Both myself and my 50y.o. daughter are very pleased with it.

I am now interested to make some smaller pieces from the scrap I accumulated, i.e. a pendant for starters. I have two queries and hope you can point me in the right direction.

I see a lot of silver pieces have a pattern on their surface. How is is done? is it applied by a patterned steel roller? Secondly, I notice that a lot of small silver pieces have a 'glint' to them which looks like a collection of tiny gems in a cluster - but on closer inspection, all I can see are tiny 'dents'. Could these have been made by a simple centre-punch, or is there a special tool which makes the little dents glisten in the light? They just look like little dints about 0.5mm diameter, like a centre-pop mark - maybe I need to go to Spec-savers...

Looking forward to your advice.

Many thanks.