Happy are the pendants that find new homes🥰
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This looks like a snowy day in the forest. Still have to oxidize the copper but it looks like a framed picture or painting.❤️❤️❤️
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On my table right now
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looks with two joins. I’m going to use the ingot next to it which I alloyed a while ago. I think it will produce a single wire the right thickness 26ga (0.45mm) and width (5mm) and long enough, 6.7” (170mm), to wrap around the stone in one piece.

I milled the sheet from another ingot I also alloyed sometime ago. I’m including its twin to show how it began in class yesterday morning at 5ga (5.4mm) and how it ended up at

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mounted on a leather cuff (I will ask a leathersmith to make). It’s for someone with ALS I became friends with on Twitter. I am mindful that she cannot use her hands and arms, hence the leather. It may be softer and lighter against her skin and more easily adjustable.

I made the bezel last term from a strip of wire I’d previously milled but it wasn’t long enough as a single piece and I had to join it. I don’t like how it

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JEWELLERY CLASSES WEEK 2

Winter term at the 92Y began last week. I’m in my usual Classical Gold with a newish instructor, I took a class with her last semester.

Projects I’m working on:

A dendritic agate from Turkey, which I accidentally dropped. The break was clean and a handyman in my building epoxied it. It’s almost invisible. I will honour it kintsugi style by filling it in with 24k gold leaf. The stone will be

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