Because of the forms I have a tendency to make for my chess set & hollow forms, it's always the first book I turn to if I need help with techniques. However, with the scoring question, I didn't even think to look in it! But there it is, on page 14 "Scraping a Groove" how to make a scraping/scoring tool.
It's a simple process of heating an old file (which I do not have unfortunately), bending the tang at 90°, quenching and then filing & sanding the end into the desired angle, which for my purposes is about 45°. I just need to get some hardened steel and a handle...oh yeah and do a process I haven't done since week one of jewellery and metalsmithing. Not scared about that at all given my temperamental torch and shaky hands.
Tim McCreight's, Boxes and Lockets: Metalsmithing Techniques, is one of the best books I've found, and I really do go back to it time and again. Which is why I stumbled upon this today. I wholeheartedly recommend going out and buying it. It's available from Amazon for about £20.
2 comments:
Hi Emily,
I like your blog and I also want to thank you for the info about the Metalsmithing Techniques book. I will start following your blog from now on. Good job and better luck for the future. Greetings from Barcelona
Carles
www.delajoia.blogspot.com
Thank you Carles, I really need to update my blog, it's been too long since I added anything to it and I really do feel bad about that. I suppose posting here just cements the fact that my jewellery designing is going through a rough patch.
However, I think I'm going to try and do a few reviews/recommendations of books for jewellers and specifically for students. It will give me an excuse to go through all the ones I own and look for some inspiration in techniques and other designers.
The Boxes & Lockets book is wonderful. McCreight has a really easy manner of explanation and his books are always wonderfully illustrated.
Again, thank you for following my blog and here's hoping for a few more posts in the months to come.
Emily
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