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My art: featherdust.comDoes anyone else make jewelry? I’ve started to dabble in it myself, as I needed something to do with my hands at the end of the day when I was done painting. I’ve got a huge number of loose stones to work on still so I don’t have much up, and I’m not terribly good at it yet, but I’d love to hear what folks think!
http://featherdust.critter.net/jewelryhtml/
Does anyone else do this? I’m a huge opal, ammolite and labradorite nut so I’m using mainly opals but I’m using some other stones too so I can make some less expensive pieces. 🙂
Volunteer mod- I'm here to help! Email me for the best response: nambroth at gmail.com
My art: featherdust.comI make chainmaille bracelets and earings and the like but I havent figured out how to incorperate stones yet
I love opals! You do beautiful work. Do you actually bend and shape the wire for the jewlry?
Do you only do silver?Phoenix wrote:I love opals! You do beautiful work. Do you actually bend and shape the wire for the jewlry?
Do you only do silver?Thanks! I love opals too. I polish many of the ones I use by hand, it takes forever.
I do all the wire-wrapping by hand, yes. 🙂 I start with a loose stone and a length of wire, and go crazy for about 3 hours. If I’m lucky I have a pendant at the end!
I only use silver at the moment because I hate yellow gold, and everything else is out of my price league. Even the silver is pricey.Volunteer mod- I'm here to help! Email me for the best response: nambroth at gmail.com
My art: featherdust.comThat takes a lot of talent to come up with all the different designs.
Isn’t silver pretty maliable? How do you secure the stones inside the pendant?
I used to buy opals off of Ebay. Got some pretty good deals.How do you polish them? There’s generally a vein of mineral of some sort in them isn’t there? Do you cut them and shape them yourself?
Phoenix wrote:That takes a lot of talent to come up with all the different designs.
Isn’t silver pretty maliable? How do you secure the stones inside the pendant?
I used to buy opals off of Ebay. Got some pretty good deals.How do you polish them? There’s generally a vein of mineral of some sort in them isn’t there? Do you cut them and shape them yourself?
Silver is pretty soft but so is gold- the pendants are as secure as any other jewelry set in either of these metals. 🙂 It just takes some creativity to get the stone set securely.
I don’t have the equipment to cut the opals, and polishing just takes many, many hours with a good polishing compound, and some carpal tunnel…. 😉
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My art: featherdust.comAsH wrote:I make chainmaille bracelets and earings and the like but I havent figured out how to incorperate stones yet
hah! I have a chainmail rig a friend made for me (he’s been making chainmail for years and now sells it), but I haven’t had a chance to be able to sit down and actually do much with it as of yet 🙁 It’s set up to make about 5 different gauges.
I’ve made 1 necklace with connemara marble and a few other beads, but I need to add the pendant. I have a moonstone shaped like a tear (found it in a tumbled stone bucket at an occult/fantasy store when I was traveling… it totally called to me) and I need to add some sort of wire network around it so I can make a pendant out of it. I’m thinking of naming the stone. I’d like to fiddle with it more, but I need a bit more free time than I have at the moment and to get some needed projects out of the way.
Nambroth wrote:Does anyone else make jewelry? I’ve started to dabble in it myself, as I needed something to do with my hands at the end of the day when I was done painting. I’ve got a huge number of loose stones to work on still so I don’t have much up, and I’m not terribly good at it yet, but I’d love to hear what folks think!
http://featherdust.critter.net/jewelryhtml/
Does anyone else do this? I’m a huge opal, ammolite and labradorite nut so I’m using mainly opals but I’m using some other stones too so I can make some less expensive pieces. 🙂
Those are sooo cool. Do you sell them or custom make them for people?The wire work looks wonderful! I’m a labradorite nut too.
I’ve done some jewerly making, a couple of courses and some stuff on my own but don’t do alot cause really I have no space to set up a propper shop and dad gets mad when i use his work shop cause there are bound to be bits everywhere. I’ve worked with silver, brass and copper and even learned how to set gems. You’re a brave person for dealing with opals, they are probably the worst to set. Copper is by far the softest metal to work with even though it tarnishes really fast. there are some laquers that you can put on it to stop that but i’ve never tried. Silver is next (though expensive) the wire is easiest but the sheet you have to aneal (heat up) to work with. Brass relitively cheap but is a pain in the @$$, you have to repeatedly aneal it to work with it.
look forward to seeing more of your work!
Those look great!! You have done a wonderful job! I am jewelry maker when I have free time & shows to sell at. I usually take the winter off. I’ve been dying to try the square wire! Your prices are great too!
I make beaded jewelry and have set some stones. Unfortunately I’m getting tendonitis pretty bad in my fingers, so I haven’t been able to do that much with it the last couple of years. I still have lots of stock left, and that’s what I started selling at science fiction conventions before I became a Windstone dealer. 🙂
I don’t currently have any online though to show you, but I’ll see what I can do. I have a convention this weekend, and will try to take photos when the stuff is all displayed nicely.
I’ve never tried wire wrapping, although my friend Christopher seems to be pretty good at it. He makes rings and earcuffs, things like that. His business name is Magickally Intertwined, but he doesn’t have a web site — just does lots of Renaissance Faires.
Yours are pretty, Nam. I like the opals.
dragonessjade wrote:Those are sooo cool. Do you sell them or custom make them for people?
Both! 😀
skigod377 wrote:Awwwww, the one I wanted was sold Sad Beautiful job, Nam.
Aw, I’m sorry! I’m making more each night though! 😀
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