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Polish Your Style!
When I first ventured into silversmithing, there were a lot of things I knew nothing about. One of these was polishing. Like many other people, most of my experience with polishing silver had been either polishing my mother’s flatware [ … ] Read More
Sterling Silver Care part 2 of 2
Does your silver jewelry live in your bathroom? Or is it hanging around on some sort of display, or cluttered up in an open dish on a random counter top? Do you then have to go through the effort [ … ] Read More
Sterling Silver Care part 1 of 2
When I visit peoples homes I always love to check out their jewellery collections. Unfortunately a lot of people keep their jewellery in the worst of places, the bathroom. Not only do I not really want to hang [ … ] Read More
Making Beautiful Things
This blog entry was generously submitted by Karen McLaughlin, one of my first students in my Workingsilver Naniamo Teaching Studio several years ago. Thank you Karen for your friendship and support. I look forward to creating with you, [ … ] Read More
Silver and Stone Overlay Pendant
This project develops skills in sawing, pierce-work, overlay, sweat soldering, bezel-making, stone setting, and finishing techniques. You can adapt it to different shaped pendants with different pierced-work patterns to complement your stone. The illustrated pendant has a hook, rather [ … ] Read More
Bamboo Stacking Rings
Make these fun and beautiful, hand fabricated, BAMBOO STACKING RINGS! This Tutorial has been reprinted from “Jewelry Making Daily” and is by Elizabeth Ann Tokoly This classic, elegant ring builds on simple metalsmithing techniques – forming, soldering, filing – [ … ] Read More
Setting Up Your Metalsmithing Studio
This is a fairly comprehensive list of tools and supplies that you will need to set up your metalsmithing studio. Thank you for shopping! You will need a jeweller’s bench and a soldering bench or fire safe table area, plus [ … ] Read More