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Archive for January, 2010

Intarsia Gemstone Cabochon For Silver Solder Jewelry Design

Saturday, January 16th, 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 [...]

Posted in Designing Gemstone Cabochons | 1 Comment »

Annealing – jewelry design – silversmithing

Wednesday, January 13th, 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

Saturday, January 9th, 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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