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A new frontier

I have been ignoring this blog.

Yup. Bad blogger.

So sue me.

I've recently upped my jewelry game to the space I've always wanted to play in -


I have progressed beyond wire - to sheet metal and other stuff. Real metal work and soldering. 

It's what I've always wanted to do, but haven't. I'll keep the reasons why to myself because it doesn't matter. I'm equipped and practicing and soon I can produce something that I hope won't be awful.

So what did I buy to round out my kit? Here we go. Stating with the lower left corner and going clockwise we have -

  • Bezel wire (three sizes)
  • Citric acid pickle
  • Third hand
  • Pickle pot (tiny crock pot)
  • Copper tongs (not required for C.A. pickle, but that's ok)
  • 3M polishing pads
  • Tripod
  • Copper sheets
  • Saw blades
  • Cuprinol anti-firescale spray
  • Handy flux
  • Flux picks
  • Sheet solder and cannisters
  • More brass and nickel silver sheets
  • Burnisher (for bezel setting), gorgeous #4 file, and tweezers
  • Ring clamp sitting on a rotating soldering tile
  • Paste solder
  • French shears
  • Pro polish pads
  • Divider
  • Bench pin
  • Saw
  • Magnesia block

Close ups -




I also picked up some emery-board type files and some cheap paint brushes for placing flux. All good and interesting. Hope to be getting through the practice stage before long. 

I have several books in my growing jewelry library and have been watching YouTube videos like crazy. As a result I've cut my first metal with a saw and didn't snap a blade! Wow.

If we're lucky I maintain some kind of enthusiasm for this blog. I have a lot of other stuff to do so who knows. But you can always follow on FB, too.

I think I'll at least post photos of what I'm making while I practice, and maybe some videos too. 





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