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Here you will find interesting photographs of how some jewellery on this website started before you received it.  I hope you enjoy looking through this gallery as much as I enjoyed making them



The work bench

This is where I spend most of my time.  It has changed many times already in a short space of time, and it continues to change and develop as my skills do

(new photos to be uploaded showing the work bench shortly)

The materials
This is what all the jewellery looks like when I buy it in from the suppliers.  Silver sheet, gold sheet, silver wire & gold casting grains



The tools
This kit was bought in Jan 2011 after I'd spent a couple of years learning jewellery making through component work
The soldering mats are now all black with craters in, the borax cone is down to a wee black stump, I still have that tiny torch and have added another 3 to the collection all ranging in sizes. I've burnt through 3 slow cookers for pickle cleaning the metal and acquired quite a few more scars. It's not just a job, it's a life style!
This is just a tiny fraction of the tools I actually use, but this is the starting point for any small scale metal worker

 

Not all tools I use are bought.  Some I've made myself;  giant brass tweezers for removing items from the pickle pot, brass pickle spoon with drainage holes, multiple flush setting tools, large brass blunt needle for threading cord through my fabric storage bags and more recently, some tool storage with a burr holder

       

The process
The making process is a long and slow one.  Everything has to go through the stages of design, piercing, filing, shaping, soldering, pickle cleaning, more shaping, more filing, multi stage polishing.  Some designs can take weeks to complete; and that's even before the item photography, website editing, packaging and everything else involved.  It's hard to really appreciate how much work goes into every piece just through photos

 


Blue John celtic ring
  




Custom made butterfly locket with emerald cabochon
   




Custom made necklace
     




Summer flower necklace with amethyst and 9ct gold details
  




Copper oak leaf incense burner
  




Copper keepsake necklace
  





Motorbike tiebar with citrine
   




An old gold wedding ring made into a new gold wedding ring
  




Tiebar
  




Ivy leaf ring with moss agate
   




Adjustable ring
  




Random activity on and off the bench
        



The results
The rewards of a hard days work – a collection of shinys, dirty hands and several new hand injuries
   
































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