Hammer

2 oz of scrap sterling silver forged into a bracelet.

Juliet

Looking at different handmade setting I realizing how something so simple can change a design. I have been looking at allot of jewelry made in the 60's and 70's amazed at how simple line and attachment create a finished look.
This ring is 14k yellow gold with imperial topaz and diamonds I made it in the spring for a client she want something simple and timeless but modern fro her daughter.

Sunflower 1970's

This necklace was named "sunflower" in my sketch book from 1974 when I started a jewelry class in high school. At that time the only thing I had to hammer on was a rail tie my dad had finished for me. I had one hammer and no real knowledge of how to make it. I played with hammering wire and want on to the next project at that time. So the design got lost till this summer.
I had forgotten the wonderful sound of hammering metal plus the smell that it created as the metal heats up with each hammer stroke.
Things you forget with time all come back when you start to work on something you love to do.

Good morning
This is a first for me I just want to share some of my new work.
The new work is all based on looking back at old designs that I want to make when I first started making jewelry 30 plus years ago but at that time I did not have the skills or money to buy the silver to make these pieces. I am recycling clean scrap silver that I am pouring into an ingot and forming into wire or sheet to make the piece. Hammering and shaping trying to use one continues piece of metal I am forming a ring or bracelet tension setting any stones I am using.
The first ring in 6 inches of 12 gauge wire with at blue quartz.