Still learning

 

Fiona and I spent a few hours with Lindsay Gallacher learning some finer and, for us, advanced design and soldering techniques. I had designed what I thought might work on several wee hand cut plate silver rustic cottages that I had designed as earrings. After talking through my designs with Lindsey I finally settled on the connections you can see in the photo above. 

I also wanted to learn how to solder curved pieces of silver wire to represent coastal dune grasses on a pair of earrings. The outcome can be see in the opening photo.

Some process photos follow.

The time spent with a professional such as Lindsey proves that one can always learn new and improved techniques.

I also oxidised a pair of the rustic cottage forms to see how the dry point marking would show once the oxidising was gently polished back.

I've added ear wires to three of the pairs of forms - I think they are ready for the next step.