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Post by larrywyland3 on Nov 20, 2007 16:04:25 GMT -5
I finished up that lapel pin I was making for a friend's wife. I cabbed a stone earlier and then did up some pmc (precious metal clay) for a backing for the cab. The original cab was too big so I did another. Here is the finished pin with the bigger cab the pin side view back view The pmc in a third hand with the bezel wire set to be soldered on. The little chips of metal around the inside edge of the bezel wire are small pieces of silver solder. It took me over an hour to get everything clean, fluxed and touching. And to my joy and a little surprise; it worked the first time. I haven't done much soldering in the past year and this was pretty big bezel; so I was worried.
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Post by ladyt on Nov 20, 2007 16:21:20 GMT -5
Wow! Awesome job. It's gorgeous.
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Post by stoner on Nov 20, 2007 17:13:48 GMT -5
Very nice, I love the setting and the stone.
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 20, 2007 18:09:56 GMT -5
Very nice! The green and silver make a great color combination.....mel
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Post by cpdad on Nov 20, 2007 19:49:26 GMT -5
super cool ;D...kev.
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Post by beefjello on Nov 20, 2007 20:24:06 GMT -5
That's fantastic Larry!
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Post by catmandewe on Nov 20, 2007 22:17:04 GMT -5
Man, I wanna learn how to do that. Fantastic job..........................Tony
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Post by adrian65 on Nov 21, 2007 0:16:30 GMT -5
Beautiful silver work!
Adrian
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Post by deedolce on Nov 21, 2007 0:56:07 GMT -5
Beautiful pin!! Love what you did with the pmc!
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Post by Wolfden on Nov 21, 2007 11:13:46 GMT -5
wow great job
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Post by 181lizard on Nov 21, 2007 11:58:05 GMT -5
That's a beaut! Anyone would love it!
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Post by chassroc on Nov 21, 2007 12:09:25 GMT -5
great job...nice cab...I love those colors...how long has it taken to master PMC? csroc
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Post by larrywyland3 on Nov 21, 2007 13:44:09 GMT -5
csroc, PMC is fairly easy to work with. My sister has a set up for it. She is an art teacher. It is a lot like working with pottery clay; which I did many years ago. So with her coaching and my experience with the pottery clay I picked it up pretty fast. I have also worked with silver before; so the PMC was another "tool" in the tool box. I think the hardest part was soldering the the bezel wire to the PMC. I try to break things down to the simplest level to understand how things work. Jewelry is made up of only three basic parts; sheet metal, wire, or casted parts. The type of metal adds a forth component in that the melting temps are different and the workability of say 14k gold vs fine silver(.999 pure silver). The 14k being hard to work and fine silver being easy to work. Work being the softness; how easy you can bend, stretch, mill. I think once you get an understanding of how these four work into the construction of a piece of jewelry it makes it easier to use each one in the best way. There is a product called sculpey with is a plastic clay and you "fire" it in a regular oven at 270 degrees. I did some practicing with it since it is a lot less expensive and the PMC is a bit pricey
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Post by Tonyterner on Nov 21, 2007 16:22:43 GMT -5
Larry, that is stunning. I'm afraid to show it to my wife. (That is the highest compliment I can give)
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