Filed under: Assignments, Gold + Silver, vanity set | Tags: brush, chains, coil, link, saw, silver, soldering, spring, vanity set, wire
Today I started making the chains that the vanity set pieces will hang off. As I have mentioned before I drew down the silver wire myself. This is the only time in this assignment I will be doing it. I am buying the wire from now on.
To make the chain, it starts out like a spring and you saw through each coil, one by one to create the link.
This picture is of the spring before I cut it up.
These are the links once cut.
This is as I am soldering the links together. Very messy I know. I don’t think I have any fingerprints left.
And just to give you an idea of what the chains will be used for -
Hope these all make sense. K.
Filed under: Gold + Silver | Tags: aluminium, anu, brooches, cast, form z, gemstones, gold and silver, lathe, necklaces, powdercoating, rings, servers, silver, stainless steel
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As promised – here are some images from last year.
1st image – these are moveable brooches made from powdercoated aluminium. I was lucky enough to be able to do the powercoating myself, thanks to family connections. These were designed in response to a brief about colour in my 1st semester of my 2nd year in the gold and silver workshop here at the ANU. (So start of 2008) There is one brooch missing which is a light blue and purple. There is also a necklace collection in the same series. Each of those have 4 colours on the wheel. I will try and get some images of these and put them up.
2nd image – these are sterling silver with citrine gemstones rings. They were all cast and then machine worked on a lathe to get that nice smooth edge and clean angles. This was my first attempt at setting stones. I really love this collection. I had intended to use red gemstones, as it is my favourite colour but could only get the citrine. So it was a happy accident that I used that particular colour. Now I wouldn’t change the stone colour at all. They can be worn all together, but they are quite heavy on the finger, but it is a nice weight. These were created late 2008.
3rd image – Stainless steel servers. Last year I had a product design class in which we used a program called Form Z. I designed these on the program as we had a brief in our workshop to create objects that serve. It was a very long process and my teacher in that class was extremely helpful. I had the casting of these objects outsourced. They have 4 serving options – each is a server/handle depending on which end you wish to use. There was alot of work in the cleaning up of these objects, which involved makeshift tools and a few war wounds. I love these servers and they are used for special occasions in my house. These are the larger size, there is also a smaller size that I have not had cast yet.
