Happy spring everyone!! Finally after a long and cold winter here in Omaha, we seem to have finally broken out of the cold weather and into the wonderful warm days of spring.
The birds are chirping, trees are blooming, the grass is green, and thunderheads are popping up all over the place. Its about time!
Still doings silversmithing, so wanted to share two projects that I recently completed. The first one is a faceted topaz stone in a silver prong setting. This is one of those projects that looks easy, but is much harder then it appears. Making the basket takes lots of delicate heat, steady hands, and most importantly patience and persistence. The prongs that hold the stone in place are very easy to melt (which I did do, requiring me to start all over on the prongs!)
Topaz and sterling silver pendantThe next project is a set of inlayed earrings. Inlay requires some lapidary work which my grandfather is quite skilled at. We have been working on cutting and shaping stones, and he felt that I needed a bit of a challenge of making a set of matched stones. I started out with a slab of azurite with malachite chunks, and cut and shaped the stones until the fit into the silver framework.
Inlay Azurite and Malachite Earrings Labels: Silversmithing
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