Any Questions?

Feel free to contact me on my blog if you have any Jewellery related or Silversmith questions. I will post the Q&A's for all to benifit!

Waste Not Want Not

Check out the ring Colleen made in her Lost Wax Casting Workshop
http://www.thedevilsworkshop.ca/workshops_lostwaxcasting.shtml

Colleen's Dad requested that she replace the wedding band that he no longer wanted to wear with an updated piece. Since Colleen's Dad is a "nature lover" a burn out of a piece of bark was the perfect solution.

She started with a straight piece of bark and burned it out to make a straight piece of silver bark; we then bent it into a ring shape and carved out the middle to make it smooth and thinner. We then made a rubber mould of the silver model for reproductions and ultimately cast the work in 14k yellow gold.

Colleen then used the silver model to make a matching pendant for her mom and used one of the trial pieces to make a great pair of earrings for herself

Great work on putting all your trial to good use Colleen!

25 Bumble Bees

My Bumble Bees for Bell are finally done.

Ring by Mistake

So many little things to do, so little time.

Today I will complete a large order commission by setting a million little rhinestones into bumble bee pins for a corporate account, a task I am not looking forward to but someone has to do it. I will also spend some time preparing a casting batch for tomorrows Lost Wax Casting Class, it is their last casting batch and everything has to turn out. In today's batch we have reproductions of a really cool ring made by Charlene Serdan, a mistake that turned out to be a masterpiece. Charlene was carving her very first ring and cut a little too close into the ring as student often do and the result was fabulous! It looks like a log, but better, there is no way you could plan something like this. We made a rubber mould for reproductions in her last class and will add them to this casting batch, perhaps she will sell the copies ;) Take a look at Charlenes bead work at www.cserdan.etsy.com.

Website Launched April 7th 2007

Finally it's done!

Webmaster and Designer, Jordan at www.athensmedia.net has done a great job with my site, thank your for all your hard work Jordan. I am so happy that students can now go to "Make a Booking Request" to jump start the registration process, this is going to make my life so much easier! More time to make jewellery!

Please take a look at it and let me know if there are any changes that should be made to make our site better www.thedevilsworkshop.ca.

To boot my press release is now complete, thanks Monte!
http://www.thedevilsworkshop.ca/press_april_09_2007.shtml
Please pass it on to anyone that may be interested.