Cat on a pillow

November 19, 2008

I just finished this yesterday and shipped it out today. It’s a brass cat urn, cat serial number 18. Like the dog I posted earlier, the cat is hammer formed, and the pillow is hydroformed.

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Some of My Homemade Metalsmithing Tools

November 15, 2008

The kind of metalsmithing I do requires a lot of special tools. Most of them are simple enough that I’m able to make them myself. Usually all that is required is a piece of steel rod, a chop saw, a grinder, a sander, and sometimes a big torch, sometimes a lathe, sometimes a welder. Below […]

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My newest creation

November 5, 2008

This is an urn for a very large Great Dane named “Titan”. The dog is hammer-formed from 16 gauge brass sheet. The pillow base, of the same material, is hydro-formed. The base is 10-1/2″ square, and the total height is about 5″ tall. The hardest part was figuring out how to do the ears. In […]

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What good is daylight savings time?

November 2, 2008

Hello everyone, I’m in the middle of several metalsmithing projects right now and way behind on everything, but I promised myself I would post something on my blog at least once a week, so I’m going to bring up the timely subject of daylight savings time. What good is it? I have heard many explanations […]

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I have a new Orchid gallery

October 25, 2008

I got an email invitation last week to submit some pictures for an Orchid Gallery. I had previously thought that the Orchid Galleries were just for jewelry, and my work is small sculpture and hollow-ware. I took a look at the existing galleries and found that there are some non-jewelry pieces on display there, so […]

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My most recent work

October 21, 2008

Here are some pictures of my most recent piece, which is actually serial #2, a duplication of serial #1, which was made in 2005. I couldn’t really remember how I made the first one, which turned out to be a good thing, because this one came out better. Having made 40+ pet urns in the […]

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Testing Gravatar

October 19, 2008

I signed up with gravatar.com and made a gravatar. Supposedly, it will appear with my post automatically. Let’s see if it worked…

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Introduction: Steve Shelby

October 19, 2008

Hi. This is my first foray into blogging, and I must admit I have no idea what I’m doing. I have read that having a blog is a good way to get some web traffic, and when I got the offer from Ganoksin, I decided to take the plunge. Hopefully, I will learn as I […]

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