Autumn leaves in copper Updated, tutorial-ish

Here's my first project using some new techniques I learned this month; basic silver soldering and copper fold forming. My soldering work still needs some practice.

I didn't get any pics of fabricating the bezel cup for the Lapis cab but if you've seen one done in silver, you know how it goes. The only difference here is that this one was done in copper.

Here's the copper sheet for the pendant ready to start fold forming. I cut a rectangle of copper sheet, traced out a leaf shape on one side, cut out the shape and then performed the process of hammering and annealing with the torch until I got the desired results.



Here's the basic leaf for the pendant formed, now it's ready for soldering on the bezel cup, bail, polishing and final shaping:



Here are the components for the necklace fabricated and 18" viking weave chain. I fabricated the leaf components using the same fold forming method for the pendant, cutting out rectangles of sheet, folding the sheet in half, cutting out the leaf shape, hammering and annealing until formed. I forgot to mention, but you can see in the photos, there is a fold formed leaf shaped cuff as well.






Necklace components and cuff polished up:


Components flamed/torch oxidized for warm colors:


And here's the pendant, polished, flamed and ready to set the stone in:


I was hoping to lock in the bright colors using permalac but I lost the brighter reds after it dried. I noticed my permalac is dark colored, like black ink was spilled in it. is that normal for this product?

Here's the finished project, I'm still working on a pair of earrings that I will update when I've finished with them. I hope you like it, I had a lot of fun working on it.