[Jewelry making - Article 00041] - [Orchid] Hand Made?

[John Burgess]

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    G'day.   Some while ago I was asked for an inexpensive sterling
    necklace featuring dolphins.  I got a bit of 1 inch by 1/8" square
    flat steel and drew a dolphin shape on it, then cut this out using a
    8/0 saw blade (yes, I broke 3 blades)  I bent a piece of flat strip,
    1" wide steel into a 'U' shape and fixed the hardened male and
    female parts of my die precisely on opposite ends of the U, then
    holding a piece of 0.5 mm thick sterling sheet between the two parts
    of the die, squeezed them smartly together using a bench vice.  I
    repeated this to make about a dozen little dolphins.  I drilled
    small holes in the head and tail and connected the dolphin shapes
    together with recycled sterling jump rings soldered closed and the
    wire was drawn by  home made draw machine.   I fastened the two ends
    of the necklace together with magnetic clasps, bought. Is this
    assemblage to be labelled 'hand made', despite my stamping out the
    dolphin shapes? And buying clasps?  (I produced more than one of
    these) Now suppose I used the male part of the die to cast waxes, and
    cast the waxes in silver.   What then? 

Cheers for now,
John Burgess;   johnb AT ts.co.nz of Mapua, Nelson NZ


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