A trip to the Schmuckmuseum
Pforzheim is a town in the Baden-Württemberg state in Southern Germany. It has long been a capital of jewelry making and goldsmithing within the region, and use...
Pforzheim is a town in the Baden-Württemberg state in Southern Germany. It has long been a capital of jewelry making and goldsmithing within the region, and use...
I read something recently about new years resolutions, or, specifically, about not having them. Instead, the idea was to look at the commitments in your life an...
I start most of my work in my sketchbook, as drawings. Many concepts never make it beyond the sketchbook to actually be made. Even works that are started, are n...
I just received a copy of the book, Jewelry Metals, A Guide to Working with Common Alloys, edited by James Binnion and published by the MJSA press. There is a l...
I recently joined the site custommade.com (here is my profile). This is a well done site that allows people to post requests for all types of custom made items ...
I think I am going to like this pitch. I had some casting wax that I had experimented with as a chasing pitch, a la David Huang, but I didn’t like it. It ...
This is me working at my bench in my studio. It is messy and probably not as organized as it should be. My jeweler’s bench was found at a thrift store. I...
While this has nothing to do with metalwork it has everything to do with life. My friend Jen started a blog recently about her journey over the last two years h...
An in-between step that most metalsmiths skip over in their tutorials and descriptions is cleaning. Cleaning a piece (before or after soldering, during chasing ...
The technique of Chasing and Repoussé dates from antiquity and was used throughout many cultures renowned for their metalwork, though it may have originated in...