1st silversmithers

[silver Girl]

hi guys
I just wonder if there's any people who are doing silversmithing for the 1st time , or you never heard of silversmithing before and want to know more about it , well , I'm more then happy to give you some help and advice on silversmithing , as I've bin doing it for 6 years now .
feel free to post your quesions you might have, and I'll do my very best to help you

[amazingbabe]

Is that like the same as metal smithing???

[bustagasket]

Thats a lovely offer thank you so much. The only thing i have completed in silver so far is a key ring lol, and i am halfway through a bracelet at college, but of course i now have to wait til college restarts to finish it. But i dont know if thats what you class as real silvermithing

[caroleallen]

Thanks for the offer Silvergirl. I'd love to see some of your work. I've just had a lesson on deep drawing with Cynthia Eid and found it quite difficult. I don't think it's something I'm going to take up.

[silver Girl]

hi guys
sorry for the dealy in replying.

if you guys want to know more on silversmithing , I would be happy to post how you make a plan silver ring , if there anythink else you want me to post about silversmithing , then let me know

[Lindyloo]

This will be my 'thing to learn today' Carole. What on earth is deep drawing?

[Solunar Silver Studio]

Thanks for the offer Silvergirl. I'd love to see some of your work. I've just had a lesson on deep drawing with Cynthia Eid and found it quite difficult. I don't think it's something I'm going to take up.

Yes - I'm echoing lindyloo here...what is deep drawing Carole.....or anyone for that matter.......

[caroleallen]

Hi Lindyloo.

Deep drawing is done with dies on an hydraulic press. It's used to make bowls and vessels etc. The metal is drawn under tremendous pressure through successively smaller dies until a vessel is formed. Raising metal the old fashioned way with stakes and hammers in pitch is really back breaking work. Deep drawing takes out a lot of the hard work. As I say, I don't think I'll be taking it up, partly because the metal dies are really really expensive, partly because you use beef tallow as a lubricant on the metal, which stinks and partly because I don't want to have to build up a whole new market in vessels at the moment. Jewellery will do me fine. I'll leave silversmithing to the experts like silvergirl and maybe to another day.

[Solunar Silver Studio]

Hmmmm....yes, well....I think I agree with you...jewellery is challenging enough without moving on to the heavyweight stuff!! I remember raising a couple of simple dishes on a sandbag years ago and I seem to remember it being very therapeutic..going round and round with a regular tap tap tap...hypnotic! I think it would lose some of the charm slurping it through a machine covered in 'dripping'!! HAHAHA!! Thanks for the insight into what it is though!!

[bustagasket]

i made a pewter dish at a the Royal Selangor School of Hard Knocks in Malaysia while we were there, i was suprised how nice it looked!