The Devils Workshop

Friday, May 25, 2007

Fire Away Laara!

Meet Laara,

Laara is one of my most enthusiastic students, she has taken Silversmith for Beginners, is in the process of taking Lost Wax Casting, and has already signed up for Silversmith Level 2. She makes her own jewellery in her home studio and sells her works online. Laara has recently been accepted to go to a trade show in BC. Check out her new site Bijouxbylaara.com!

Laara shows up to almost every class with a written list of questions for me, loads her question gun, points and shoots. It is painless and it is all over in a matter of 5 minutes.
Since Laara's questions are helpful to everyone in the group I have invited her to post her questions on my blog so that I can answer them for everyones to benefit.

So fire away Laara!

(just hit the comments link on the bottom right of this post and go through the steps)

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posted by Sarah @ 9:58 AM  

2 Comments:

  • At June 18, 2007 5:17 PM , Anonymous Laara McFadden said...

    Hi Sarah,

    I have had writer's block since you posted my picture and write up! But I do have a question or two...
    How many times can you anneal a piece of sivler?

    Other than hammering a piece after annealing, how else will it harden? For example, if I need to anneal a piece to bend it into shape, but not necessarily hammer it, will it stay soft forever?

    If I wanted to set the Swarovski crystals I used in the cuff links into a pendant, what is the thickness of silver plate I should use?

    Without a torch, is there a way I can use a rivet with solid silver, as opposed to the hollow silver tubing? Phew, more to come!

     

  • At July 26, 2009 5:52 PM , Blogger Sarah said...

    Hi Laara,
    Swarovski can not be traditionally set because the crystal is too fragile, you will have to glue them in. Your metal thickness should be as deep as your crystals.

    You can rivit with solid silver wire if you leave enough space on either end of the rivit post so that both ends can be equally squashed out (as I taught you in class) just make sure you hammer a bit on one side and then the other and back an foreth to try to flatten each side as evenly as possible.

    Better late then never ;)

     

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