[Jewelry making - Article 00095] - Re: [Orchid] Making copper grapes

[Terri May]

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    Hi Mike -- Do you have access to a Bonny Doon press?  (Without a
    press, you could use a vise to press the copper in the pattern die,
    but it would take forever!)  Most colleges that have metalsmithing
    have at least one hydrolic press. 

    There is a book by Susan Kingsley called "Hydrolic Die Forming For
    Jewelers & Metalsmiths" which shows different ways of making
    cost-effective dies, which you would then use to form your copper,
    then cut and solder the halves together.  It would still take kind
    of a long time, but the grapes could look "realistic" in form. 

    Otherwise, have you considered having a glassworker make the grapes
    out of glass? 

--Terri

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