[Jewelry making - Article 00193] - Re: [Orchid] Making metal end balls

[Lisa Orlando]

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    Thanks for the idea Wayne. Because I was about to take a class on
    designing with briolettes, I recently reviewed all the info on Steve
    Green's site and noted that, rather than the usually bead-style
    horizontal drilling, which he says weakens the stone, he recommends
    drilling straight into the top of a briolette and using a "pearl
    post" (or better, a cap-post) with Devon 2-Ton Epoxy.) I never
    thought of using the same technique for end balls, but why not? 

    By the way, the briolette class covered various methods of wire-
    wrapping, and I don't think the instructor would have smiled on the 
    use of adhesive. (Unfortunately, I can barely afford the "weak" 
    briolettes, never mind Steve's gorgeous stones.) Then, Friday, when
    I  went to the opening for the MAG show, I saw a necklace made by 
    someone who may have devised her own briolette technique. The 
    necklace was a joke (literally--after all, this was a "metal arts" 
    show), but she'd made triangular wire elements, with the middle of 
    the base missing, and glued the ends into the horizontal drill
    holes.  The technique doesn't allow the briolette itself to
    move--which was  something my teacher's techniques emphasized--but
    it might strengthen  them. And it looked good, too. 

    Lisa Orlando Aphrodite's Ornaments 

    PS: If you can see this show, do--a Beth Rosengard brooch and John 
    Jenkin's exquisite and terrifying Icarus knife make it worth the 
    trip. (Well, there's also a Kent Raible ring, but he doesn't post 
    here... ) 

    http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/archive/200506/msg01278.htm 

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