Slight new direction

 

Given we are in the cottage I have been inspired to try to make some solid silver wee cottage earrings - see the initial designs in the sketches below. This work will include quite a bit of delicate sawing with a jewellers saw. Two hand cut cottages on slate are in the opening photo - bit of filing and sanding yet to be done. The wee cottages are about 10-11mm wide.

I needed to mark up the silver with a very fine pen but was not sure what would work - needs to be permanent and not smudge when cutting. I tested a range of pens on one of our stainless steel kitchen knives as you can see below.

In the end I thought Fiona's Uni pin .05 pen below would work best. It did mark up ok but did also smudge a bit. The cutting this time was done at the kitchen table - cutting vee clamped to the table. I think I will try a Copic pen next.

Fiona asked if our kitchen knife would ever be the same - after a bit of a scrub with stainless steel cleaner it was as good as.

Over the next while I will make some stamps out of nails to use to create the windows, doors and texture on the roof - all part of a work in progress????