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?

[CyberPaddy66]

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

I recently made my own wedding ring (the Mrs made her own as well) and it's the first thing I've made from fine silver D-Wire so I'd be interested in seeing if you do anything different to myself

[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.......

[marietaylor111]

Hi Silvergirl,

I am new to silversmithing, I start college next month doing a foundation degree in this, I am a bit daunted as to wot sort of tools I will need to be getting, I am a mature student, but just want some sort of ideas, for budgeting reasons as well as curiousity, I just hope I am gonna enjoy it as much as making the jewellery I have made, lol.

Marie

[nikki_d72]

Hi Silvergirl,

I went to Edinburgh College of Art and studied Jewellery and Silversmithing - I did one silversmithing project and was advised by my lecturer (Bill Kirk, who I now realise was a pretty influential guy in his day in Scotland - didn't have Google then, lol) to switch my studies from mainly jewellery to silversmithing. For some unknown reason (stubbornness, probably) I didn't take his advice, which is now one of my deepest regrets. What I'd like to know is do you think that with a decent amount of experience as a jeweller (I was a jobbing jeweller for 3 years after college) and a knowledge of the basic principles of raising and forging that I could learn the rest myself? Are there any books you'd recommend? And roughly how much would it cost to buy all the stakes etc I'd need, do you think? I'm hopefully going to be setting up a wee workshop for myself soon but would really love to move sideways a bit and make some vessels etc. I'm not really into spinning or pressing too much. like to make from scratch as much as possible. I'll never forget the smell of scorched tallow in the workshops when someone had been using the spinning lathe, yeuck! (I'm a vegetarian, too, so even worse!) Anyhoo, sorry this is a bit long, but any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Nikki