nicilaskin — handmade

This sterling silver flower necklace was sawed and constructed entirely by hand from 18 gauge sterling silver and features a genuine black onyx stone in the center to complete the botanical statement. Embodying the organic flow and rhythm of a flower shape, the outer pedals were sawed as one continuous shape from the flat sheet of sterling silver and dapped and domed on a shaping block to capture a realistic three dimensional form. The inner whorls or pedal structure was also sawed by hand, domed, and then soldered to the outer pedals using a hydroflux welder before setting the onyx...

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I was procrastinating today a bit and those 2 rings are the results I am actually supposed to work on fathers day orders but for some reason I got side tracked i used galery wire for the so called bezel setting wrapped once around the stone tightly to make the setting soldered the ends together so they form a ring place the stone inside there is a lot of forming going on with you fingers so that the stone sits tight but can be taken out without loosing the shape of the bezel I traced around the bezel to make...

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copper buttons made some buttons for my mom I remember as a child my mom had a small wooden box with tons of buttons in it . I was very facinated by it and when she got that box out to make something I would sit on the floor and play for hours . She still has that box with the buttons , so I made her a couple of new ones out of copper I cut out 2 discs an 2 flowers from copper I used a disc cutter for the circles as sawing a circle by hand and...