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...as I took a quick last glance at stock for a store and some pieces on their way to Camp Bisco... why is everything so YELLOW?
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Bonnaroo and All Good wiped me out, and hopefully Bisco will too... I've also been doing a lot of mail order work lately, so it's hard to keep pieces in my case... here's some of the newer stuff.
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A few more pieces from the last few days. Some were converted from hat brim wraps, which I have a hard time moving down here in Alabama.
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Kind of... from an impact of an object that came from outer space, anyways. This is the first time I've tried this style of wrap, and it turned out well, even if the back is messy.
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Turns out to be very uncomfortable to wear, and is still not finished, but I was determined to cram as many techniques into it as possible while I had time to talk to an instructor about it at the Florida Society of Goldsmiths' 12-hour (4 weeks, one night a week) begininning metalsmithing class.
My objectives for this piece were:
1) must be all cold-connect
2) must not harm the stone
3) stone must be easily removable
4) meet all the instructor's requirements
Her requirements for the project:
1) make use of a cutout in sheet metal
2) 3 types of connections
3) 2 types of textures
4) must be a pendant
5) must involve at least two pieces
Copper frame box, sterling silver brackets to be permanently riveted with sterling rivets, housing a gemmy green tourmaline crystal that will be eventually neatly wired into place instead of the temporary work you see here. Bail is sterling silver attached to the piece with sterling wire, balled at the ends with a creme brule torch. I'm considering putting well-placed kinks in that wire to shorten the piece up a bit, and after a good polish, coating the copper in polyurathene.
I originally designed a lid, cold-connect hinges, and a little cold-connect latch, but the instructor wasn't having any of THAT...
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New pieces I'm turning out for "Art in the Park," Foley, AL's arts and crafts show.
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I've been at this obsessively for a little over 5 months. I incorporated my first basket weave last week into a ruby cabochon lapel pin for my Dad's birthday. I'm currently getting ready for Art in the Park, an arts and crafts show in Foley, AL -- May 12, 13
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Wire wrap pendants as of the beginning of September 2007
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Aquamarine, dark green tourmaline crystal, gemmy yellow durango apatite (you can read text easily through this crystal!)
sold
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I love metalworkers.org because it's given me a great place to look back at my wire-wrap progress. My gallery "begins" with my second wrap in Dec. 2006, and I love being able to look back and see when I learned key skills and the progress I've made with them.
I currently sell my wraps in 7 stores throughout the eastern U.S., and I've been using the profits to put together a lapidary workshop. I'll be all set up to cut and polish my own cabochons soon, and eventually I hope to learn some faceting techniques.
Joules Gardner
Daphne AL 36526
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