I make jewelry mostly and metal guitar picks . Today I decided to make something that I have no experience in making - a hair fork please excuse my english - its not my mother tongue ;)
I think it came out pretty good for the first one
Of course there are a lot of imperfections and things that I could have done better - but it is what it is
I took a 17 gauge copper sheet
I get mine from a local metal shop - they have huge sheets of almost any metals
most shapes are easy to recrate
most shapes are circles and can be made with a simple circle template
I drew directly on the copper sheet with a sharpy
I never really plan things out - I mostly doodle and then see what happens the shape is 5.25 inches long
cut out hair fork with a small jewelers saw
more circles
well half circles but I used my template again - its made of plastic and has circles in different sizes
added some details
butterfly
I love butterflies - always have
cut out some flowers too
added some texture again
now the fun part - soldering all together
I added some solder to the back of the butterfly and the flowers
flux is applied before the soldering
soldered together
looks ugly due to the oxidation that happens when heating metal
chemical bath to clean it up
a little cleaner
I took the pliers again and twisted the ends so that it can stay better in the hair
hammered the ends of the ends too
the ends were so soft that I decided to hammer them to harden the copper
polished look
after adding some patina and polishing again
