new cross, jewelry on demand

nickel silver, embossed aluminum, embossed colored aluminum, epoxy resin, Swarovski crystals

new fused rings

As I have a new MAP gas torch now, I am able to do fusing easier. I only had a small hand torch up to now. With the MAP gas fusing only takes a few seconds, while it took several minutes with the small torch, if it worked at all. But if you heat a little bit too long, the silver flows away and covers the whole piece of jewelry, which didn`t happen with the hand torch.
But this effect I want to use in future to create surfaces that are plated with a thin layer of silver. For this you can use silver scrap, that accumulates by the time. Maybe I will do this with the inside of copper rings, so they won`t tarnish the skin anymore. On the other hand some people want the tarnishing effect of copper for health reasons  (relief of arthritic pain).

 

silver, brass (fused), Swarovski crystals 3mm, lapislzuli 7mm, amber 4mm, synth. ruby 3mm

  

brass, copper, silver (fused), onyx

 

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gilding metal, silver (fused), brass, amber, "cold enamel"-black enamel powder in epoxy resin

jewelry on demand - cross

nicel silver, Sterling silver, leaf gold, epoxy, Swarovsky crystals

brooch with cold enamel

 

I tried the so called cold enameling. Epoxy was mixed with enamel powder. Additionally I used acrylic paint to deepen the colors and set accents.

The stones are: 2 amethysts, 7mm

garnet splinters

black jasper splinters

metals: nickel silver, nugold, brass, copper

brooch with epoxy and acrylic

I tried a new technique. Cut off brass tubes were filled with epoxy resin, which was mixed with acrylic paint before. The brass bezel on the right side was filled with garnet and peridot splinters, then epoxy was  put over it. The copper disk is on the same level as the surface of the epoxy resin.

brooch redone, ring

ring

brooch

bronze ring

 

The ring is made of bronze (copper/tin-alloy), 16 ga. two pieces of Sterling silver are soldered on. I set a 6mm Peridot (Olivin) onto one of them. A 10mm Garnet is placed in the brass bezel.

rings

necklace

ring and brooches

new rings and bracelet

silver ring with big onyx

 

Sterling silver with copper and red brass, onyx (18 mm), lapis lazuli (7 mm) and amber (4 mm)

painting in progress

More painting was done. Metal was removed, added and embossed.