Chasing and Repousse


Jewelry makers use chasing and repoussé techniques to add ornamental relief to metals. Our articles cover procedures, tools, and design tips.

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Goldsmithing: Repoussé and Chasing

Goldsmithing: Repoussé and Chasing

The terms repousse and chasing are often confused and not without good reason since the two techniques are often worked...
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Japanese Chasing Tools

Japanese Chasing Tools

Japanese chasing tools are made from steel blanks available in Japan called tagane. Japanese chasing hammers are lightweight with long...
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Pitch Bowls and Alternatives for Jewelers

Pitch Bowls and Alternatives for Jewelers

Chasing and repousse is carried out on various surfaces using steel punches to strike and manipulate sheet metal or cast...
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Goldsmithing: Pitch Options

Pitch is used all over the world by goldsmiths and silversmiths to hold metal in place while working it with...
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How to Make a Chasing or Forming Tool

How to Make a Chasing or Forming Tool

We are assuming you are using W1 water hardening square stock drill rod, W1 tool steel. Many suppliers will sell...
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The Seven Korean Metalsmiths

The Seven Korean Metalsmiths

Five thousand years of Korean goldsmithing was interrupted from 1913 to 1953 due to the Japanese invasion and the Korean...
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Safety Notes for Jewelers on Pitch, Chasing and Repousse

An ancient system of working metals, this procedure uses steel punches to manipulate the metal while it is fixed onto...
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Ornamental Chasing and Repousse

Working on the front of the piece only is called chasing. Repousse is the combination of tracing the design on...
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Basic Chasing Tools

Basic Chasing Tools

As well as being used for chasing they may also be used as punches to make textures. A stamp or...
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Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Metalwork

Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Metalwork

Quoting the scholar, Nyozekan Hasegawa, Masataka Ogawa Calls Japan the country of "the culture of hands." Over the centuries, no...
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John Killmaster and “The Quickening”

John Killmaster and “The Quickening”

In the early 1980's, I made a drawing based on the theme of transformation, a sudden, intuitive grasp of reality...
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Beginner Coin Carving Episode 4

Beginner Coin Carving Episode 4

A simple method to start hand engraving/carving. Simple tools,and easier method to learn to hand engrave. Carve coins,and you can...
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Thai Chaser Tool Tricks

Thai Chaser Tool Tricks

I was recently in Chiang Mai, a city in northern Thailand, where I spent a month visiting silversmiths and chasers...
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The Goldsmiths: Studio & Shop

The Goldsmiths: Studio & Shop

Reviving the virtually dead enameling technique plique-à-jour, which means "the light of day as seen through a membrane," has been...
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How to Make a Bas Relief Bowl

How to Make a Bas Relief Bowl

This article, written by Dottie Wood, shares photos and step by step procedure on how to make a bas relief...
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Eastern Repouss and Chasing DVD preview

Eastern Repouss and Chasing DVD preview

A preview of the DVD, Eastern Repouss and Chasing, the latest in the instructional series, Metal Techniques of Bronze Age...
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Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 6

Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 6

5 cm diameter round pendant, showing a beautiful woman dancing at Carnival in Brazil. 18k white and yellow gold ,...
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The horn from Black Graves

The horn from Black Graves

Copy of the horn from Black Graves Repouss fitting, silver plate 0.5 mm Made by: Waclaw Ganew
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CORNUCOPIA

CORNUCOPIA

METAL CORNUCOPIA CUERNO DE LA ABUNDANCIA EN METAL
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Talking About Natural Looking Things…

Talking About Natural Looking Things…

Necklace with roses, repousse, two color gold, hollow structure. Using basic repousse technique to make leaves and rose buds and...
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Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 1

Making of Carnival dancer pendant – Part 1

5 cm diameter round pendant, showing a beautiful woman dancing at Carnival in Brazil. 18k white and yellow gold ,...
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