End of First Semester

For the rest of the Jewelry Fabrication "semester", we mostly did things that I've done before.  Soldering, cleaning up your jewelry, making rings, forming metal into shapes.

I made a cool keychain with my initials on it.

I am using those initials to have a stamp made for myself so I can stamp my jewelry with my initials, a makers mark.

This week was my "final exam". They gave me this pile of silver:

And told me to make this out of it, with no help from the instructors:

So this is how mine came out:

I was pretty pleased with it, and I got an A on my final project.

Now I have a week off, then we start a semester of Metal Properties and Classification. That won't be as much fun as hands-on work, but I'm sure I will learn a lot.

If you want to see some of the jewelry that I've been making, visit me at CKMetalDesigns.com.

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Melting Metal

I melted metal all by myself today...no supervision. It was scary, but I did it and poured it into the mold, no problems. Yeah!

Making Rings

Today I am going to learn how to make and resize rings. First I have to melt some silver to use for it, then shape the silver into a square sheet.

I made two beautiful rings, and then horror! I was told to resize them so I had to cut into my beauties. I made one bigger and one smaller. They both came out looking good, so it worked out well after all.

We’ll see what my next project is.