Here’s another bronze washer I just recently finished, wanted to attempt to set some stones ! The design around them is just supposed to be a “crack” pattern the stones emerge from.
Please don’t look too hard at the fried egg beads, lots of room for improvement but I’m taking it as a win for now !
Here’s the next piece I finished up ! Just another bronze washer, wanted to get some more practice with background removal and stippling, Deffinatly not as flat and even as I would’ve liked but I think it turned out alright !
My responce to this would probably be based off what your plans for engraving are, if it is smaller work maybe keep it in the house for ease of access and comfort, if you plan to do full on fabrication and engraving id set up in the shed where you already have other useful tools for the trade...
I would imagine using colored ink rather than the typical black used ? I remember when I first started I would use whatever sharpie I had closest to me to color in my lines and make them more prominent and I have some old practice plates with purple lines. Im sure youd have to find a quality ink...
Hi Sam, do you have the transfer file for this, or would you be willing to sell it ? Would love to attempt this myself and have a reference to keep looking back on. Either way thanks for everything you do for the community !
Thank you very much, definitely still a lot to learn !
After doing some research there is methods of cutting out the areas with pinholes and relaying another piece of wire but with how hard the copper could be to stick in certain areas for me I just chose to outline the piece to try and hide...
I personally have never tried but have heard other having success doing it with a cut out sheet rather than using multiple wires. I more or less did this for the practice and to understand the concept a bit more, also once I become fairly good with copper ill be confident inlaying most metals...
Hey everyone my name is Dylan and I’ve been engraving for about a year on and off as a hobby. Ive always been fascinated with precious stones and that love brought me into the world of jewelry, engraving is just what I decided to start with ( not realizing how deep of a hole I’d be in once I...