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Tag: Work in Progress
Work in Progress 30 April 2021
Work in Progress 30 April 2021: 3 Lunar cuffs and 1 copper bowl under construction. Hammer time! 🙂 Morning well spent playing with my hammers. All made from metal salvaged from an old copper tank More Pictures on Instagram View this post on Instagram A post shared by Shalini Austin (@shaliniaustin)
Upcycled Wood Mounts for Enamelled Tiles Part 2
Work in Progress: Wood Mounts for Enamelled Tiles Repair and re-mount of 3 Somewhere Near Stamford series enamelled copper tiles. – First coat of Hampshire Sheen Intrinsic Colour black waiting to dry.– I will add 2nd coat later this evening and it will ready to mount the tiles.– Then I will give it a coat…
Upcycled Wood Mounts for Enamelled Tiles
I have decided to have new Upcycled Wood Mounts for all my enamelled copper tiles. When I have an in-house palletwood recycler it makes perfect sense to do this ? Mr A can make them with shousugiban which makes my pieces stand out. These bits of palletwood have been burnt and brushed by Dave and…
Work in Progress | 5 January 2021
Bits of copper back on the workbench this week. I took some time away from copper things over Christmas and start of the new year in hope of clearing up the brain fog that has lately become a part of life. Thanks 2020 – NOT! I am not sure if the time out worked fully…
Work in Progress | 2 November 2020
I am making balled ends on 1mm copper wire. This component will be part of the fold-formed copper earrings I was working on yesterday. These look great as headpins and I can make copper headpins to order for jewellery makers. Just attach a few beads you will have fancy beaded earrings for yourself or to…
Work in Progress | 1 November 2020
Making fold form earrings. If you would like to commission Christmas presents do get in touch soon. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Shalini Austin (@shaliniaustin) on Nov 1, 2020 at 9:05am PST View Work in Progress | 1 November 2020 post on Instagram These are the earrings I am working on…
Work in Progress | 9 September 2020
Started a new copper bowl today… As normal I don’t have a plan. I will be making it up as I go along 😀 You can also follow me on Instagram to see what I am up to
Work in Progress | 01 September 2020
A bit more done to the flowers this morning. Eye is definitely better today! Ready for enamelling ? So far so good! I wonder if my eyes will allow a full day’s work…
Work in Progress | 31 August 2020
After time off coppersmithing (again!) because of iritis I managed to finish sawing the copper flowers I started a few days back. My right eye just does not seem to want to cooperate much these days 🙁 Very frustrating! The vision was clearer than it has been for almost a week so I could saw…