Ten Reasons Using Hard Silver Solder For Gemstone Cabochon Jewelry Design

February 9, 2010

Ten Good Reasons 1. Hard solder actually becomes easier and quicker to use than the “step” method. No hat trick, just controlling your torch, all my students can do that easily with in the first 30 minutes of learning to light a torch. This includes junior high age students. By using only hard solder there [...]

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Gemstone Cabochon Silver Bezel Setting Type Jewelry Design Projects

February 9, 2010

Something to blog about ! Have been burning, melting, and generally wasting a lot of silver trying to learn how to silversmith, the past few pendants have turned out a-ok though. Thought might blog about and share a few of the most recent, successful, and favorite pendants. This first one has a Nipomo and Marcisite [...]

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Flat Lap For Intarsia & Diamond Mesh Abrasives – Gemstone Cabochon Jewelry Design

February 9, 2010

Gosh…. Been a while since have added a blog post… Been a bit of a blogging slacker ! Thought might share a bit about a flat lap set up I picked up.. Purchased this with the intent of starting to try my luck with intarsia type cabbing. That and wanted to give some 8″ padded [...]

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Mexican Crazy Lace Agate Gemstone Cabochon Pendant Jewelry Design Process

February 9, 2010

Just for fun want to show off this recent Mexican Crazy Lace Agate pendant. Sorta patting myself on the back just a little as it is my best silver solder project yet ! We decided to have a jewelry design contest for existing forum members.  Actually, it is still ongoing as of this blog entry.. [...]

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Dendritic Moss Opal / Opalite / Opalized

February 9, 2010

Recently received several slabs of what I believe to be a dendritic Moss opal.  Not entirely sure if it is an opal, opalized, or a opalite. I have read that opalite is an opalized volcanic ash than can occur with common opal and agate. It can be dendritic. Opalite is very hard and can have [...]

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Spokane Area Social Network Crafts, Lapidary, Jewelry, Misc Art / Artists

February 9, 2010

Brand new Spokane area Social Networking Community for crafts, lapidary, jewelry, and all other related artists. This community was started as a means to simply bring a variety of local niche artists from the Spokane area together in hopes of creating interesting and unique opportunities for all members. Members are not limited to the few [...]

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Heat Treating Lapidary Cabochon Minerals For Silver Solder Jewelry Design

February 4, 2010

Heat Treating Minerals
There are a great many minerals
that can be heat treated as shown in
the forum post. Heat treating these
different minerals can result in some
outstanding color enhancements !
Here is a picture of some showing
a Brazilian Agate before, intermediate,
and a fully heat treated cabs.
Slow increments of raising the heat
and lowering the heat makes a
difference between highly [...]

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Intarsia Gemstone Cabochon For Silver Solder Jewelry Design

January 16, 2010

This is my first attempt at making an intarsia !
A bit of a disaster..
It should have been more obvious to me while grinding down the flat edges of the Obsidian that it was not nearly good enough. As can be seen at the joints.
I knew the top edges were a bit chipped, but thought that [...]

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Annealing – jewelry design – silversmithing

January 13, 2010

Is annealing really just a simple matter of heating the metal and letting it cool?
I think this is the first question that comes to mind for someone brand new to working silver and other metals for jewelry design. I know it was for myself.
One important benefit to annealing is that the process makes the [...]

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Ten Reasons Using Hard Silver Solder For Gemstone Cabochon Jewelry Design

January 9, 2010

Ten Good Reasons
1. Hard solder actually becomes easier and quicker to use than the “step” method. No hat trick, just controlling your torch, all my students can do that easily with in the first 30 minutes of learning to light a torch. This includes junior high age students. By using only hard solder there [...]

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