I couldn’t help myself, sorry ;P
I took a break from casting, to take care of several projects that were left behind, and waiting to be finished.
Let’s start with those otters.
I had loads of fun with this design. It’s also something of a experiment: that’s the first flush setting I’ve ever done, and it required a lot of sweat soldering, at which I’m pretty hopeless. But, to my surprise, the soldering went very well, and setting, whilst tricky, also wasn’t that difficult. I had to use watchmaker loupe, as those are 1mm CZs, and without it, I couldn’t really see what I was doing.
There are also otter earrings:
Those are the first stud earrings I’ve ever made, and I really like how they turned out. I’m thinking about making something in this style for myself 🙂 I had to make my own ear posts, solder them onto earrings, and make my own butterfly backs (you can see them in one of the photos). That was… a bit challenging, but also easier than I thought it would be.
While I was soldering the second ear posts, the weirdest thing ever happened. I managed to (be ready to read something really, really weird) pierce through copper with sterling silver wire. Takes a moment fro that to sink in, doesn’t it? I have absolutely no idea how I did this. I guess it will forever remain a mystery.
And now for the wolf… Remember the wolf cuff from my last post? It’s finished:
I’m somewhat surprised I managed to take decent photos on first try. This never happens to me. I’m really happy with this one. The etching is nice and deep, the wolf etched pretty much the way I wanted it to, and I really can’t find much to complain about. It’s 15cm (5.9in)long, 2.5cm(~1in) wide, and with 2.5cm opening.
And as for the extinct deer in post title?
Let my introduce you to Megaloceros giganteus, the famous giant Ice Age deer. It is one of the biggest cervids to ever live. It could be more than 2 meters tall at the shoulders, weight more than 700kg, and it had the largest antlers of any cervid ever. Its antlers were up to 3.65m from tip to tip, and could weight as much as 40kg. That means that those antlers could weight almost as much as I do. I’m maybe 5kg heavier. I’m pretty small, but that still puts it into perspective, doesn’t it?
And now M.giganteus is on that cuff, because it just had to be 😉 I wanted to make a cuff with it for a long time, but other thing kept getting in the way, but finally, here it is.
So that’s it for now, I hope you have a great week!
Till the next time!
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