Tools, stones and silver

 

The last couple of days has been about finishing projects (small stamping tools and metal in stones; and cutting out silver cottage forms for a workshop Fiona and I are doing next Thursday. The finished stamps and inlaid stones are seen in the opening photo.

I plan to make some small silver rustic cottage earrings. I am testing a few approaches for the prototypes. I plan to scribe windows doors etc into some; and test out some home made metal stamps on the others.

The stamps started life as 125mm iron nails - below. 

I have filed and sawn the nails into several stamps with rudimentary window, dormer window and slate texture shapes. Progress photos follow. I a later blog post I will show how these worked on silver.

In the photos below you can see I have started sawing silver plate to make several different cottage forms. The cottages will be about 9X11mm.

I'm looking forward to see how this all works out when we do our half day workshop.