So while I was rifling through my gem drawers last week to find cool amethysts I also discovered some old projects from when I was in school. Not sure if these are of interest to anybody but I enjoy the nostalgia.
Projects include: laminating stones into patterns, steal printing plates that didn’t etch fully, my “brilliant totally original idea” to chase copper pipes into a copper plate 🙄, various attempts to carve stones before I fully grasped how to do the basics, failed enamelling attempts and super heavy water castings, a cool but somewhat useless agate triceratops, and my tiger eye zebra wood brush project. What was I thinking?!
I had decided to cast screws in sterling silver and loop them through huge tiger eye beads (I had never made beads before-or since) the idea was to screw the soft silver into the zebra wood without splitting the wood or damaging the silver while making sure the beads were secure... 🤦🏻♀️ and I think I had also decided to make the brush part itself from scratch as well? Getting the brush fibres to line up in the profile I wanted and stay securely together in a silver cone was a headache and a half. Though I remember the other sets I made did work out. 🤷🏻♀️