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Paua shell with handmade chain
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The Paua disk is about 4 cm diameter with a pierced silver overlay. The chain has random facetting produced by judicious rolling.
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| Part of my St Michael's set with an etched labyrinth. The left hand side ipendant is about 50mm side, whereas the righthandside only 20mm and fits higher round the neck. Other items from the labyrinth set. |
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| To Mandy's specification as she couldn't purchase what she wanted - a domed disc with a hammer pattern. An idea too good to be missed so I developed some variants below. |
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Stonesfield arrowhead pendant
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This pendant in waiting is a copy of a flint arrow head found in the fields near Stonesfield, Oxfordshire. |
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| Following my 'Great Nut Hunt' work, this is half thickness and so a little lighter round the neck. |
Cuttlefish cast with topaz
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This topaz is a very deep stone and needs a chunky
casting. where the bone structure has been revealed before casting to show its unique ribbed structure. It has a chain of links matching the loop already attached.
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The mother of pearl carvings were purchased. The setting is fabricated by sweating two triangles of cheet onto the base plate with two fine silver bezels then applying texture. I like contrasting bright polished silver with textured or satinised finishes.
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Fused pendant with garnet
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Not to everyone's taste, but pieces such as this are produced by the controlled melting of offcuts and other scrap on a charcoal block. Sometimes I tinker with them with a burr and usually have to solder on a loop to attach a chain. One option is to mount a stone within one of the cavities. On the right hand side pendant, I enlarged the space to suit the stone and soldered in some wires to form the claws for the garnet. These fused pieces can work well as brooches too. |
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This style of clasp took my attention as being secure, yet easy to operate. I decided to make it a feature. This is a chunky piece as, together with the handmade chain, it weighs about 70g.
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This is my 2009 ingot. It features a Celtic design for the border etched in to the silver - the photo show all the blemishes in the resist mask - you may be looking at an image 4-5 times the real size and the odd spot really isn't noticeable! |
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This simple design mixes bright polish and texture (applied using a rolling mill). Matching earrings complete the set. |
Garnet pendant with fetter and curb link chain
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Garnet in a cuttlefish cast mount supported on a handmade fetter and three link curb chain. The pendant can be detached to allow the chain to be worn on its own - by special request. It's complemented by a matching chain bracelet - again by request. You can just see the hallmarks on the plate in the bracelet. |
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The concentric rings exploits the contrast between silver textured in a rolling mill with bright polished silver. |
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| The twin rings pendant to the left below has both rings hammered with a domed hammer while the one to the right uses a special hammer with a square pattern. These are sparkly with movement between the rings and have proved popular. |
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Variations on a theme with plain and twisted square section - which use a new toy - a bending jig!
This design has been compared to an ankh. Complementary earrings also available as a set. |
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Just to make this shell slightly more interesting than a simple ring and chain and to stop it twisting and showing the less appealng rear surface, I created this small plate to separate the chain ends. It does stop it twisting! |
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The left hand pendant is a cast of an olive stone. The right hand side one is a simple design of three domed discs with the centre satinised. I make earrings in a similar style. |
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The left hand image has an obsidian flake from the temple at Tepoztlan in the centre. The right hand image is a pendant.
Both are scrap silver fused on a charcoal block - well actually a big lump of BBQ charcoal. Another couple of examples are below - my version of the 'ink blot' test. Your suggestions for the one on the right? |
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A simple mount to contrast with an iridescent stone - just a band of satin finish on the mount to add a little more interest. |
Mounted Roman coin pendant
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The coin on the left is only about a centimetre in diameter. I'm not exactly sure what the coin is, but I'm told it's Celtic and about two millenia old!. The mount is designed to avoid marking or damaging the coin. The coin on the right is Saxon. Here the coin is mounted between two plastic sheets to give maximum visibility. |
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| This butterfly pendant uses cubic zirconia for the antennae, with a matting punch providing the texture on the wings. |
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This design has its origins in a frieze I noticed at Sun Philae temple at Aswan. |
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