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The "other white metal" is making its presence known and it wont be long before light, bright and white 950 palladium products find their way to your workbench, either as merchandise from your store or customers jewelry taken in for service or alteration. Notable designers and manufacturers like...
Throughout the history of jewelry making, metalsmiths have strived to perfect not only their artistry, but their materials as well. In this ongoing quest, innovative metallurgists have produced new white metals in an attempt to combine all the virtues of existing metals while eliminating all the...
You may never have heard of iolite. It isn't a household word, but it is an attractive indigo colored gemstone. It has been called a "water sapphire". Iolite is highly trichroic; in one direction it is totally colorless, this aspect was the origin of the water description. The "blue denim" gemstone...
For more than two thousand years, goldsmiths have fused glass onto their work for color enrichment. Wonderful enameled work can be found from many ancient cultures, providing familiar icons of the technical skill and aesthetic sensibilities of their makers....
There might be an assuption that as a male, I would be full of all kinds of pre-conceived notions about how men are brave and not afraid of fire, and women are timid and scared of flame. Not true. I have been teaching metalsmithing for nearly 30 years, and I estimate that at one time [...]
So I have a GraverMach power engraver. I also have a fair number of engraving tools for it. They all come in quick change mounts, which is great, except that the little round holders that GRS sells don’t organize them that well. They don’t really grip the shanks, and they tend to dump all the [...]
Oh I am about to get in the middle of a fight!
While I have not worked with metalclay, I know a fair amount about it. However, I am learning a lot more about it recently.
Kate McKinnon, who I will interview tomorrow on my BlogTalkRadio Show, is about to get a lot of metal clay people [...]
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