Componentry

 I have been able to go back and forth a little bit to the jewellery making workshop and put into play a few ideas I have had. So far, I have made lots of components, and not necessarily turned any of them into jewellery; but you can't do the latter, without the former!

I am still keen on oxidising and am also keen on getting surface texture onto the silver. So I set about making pebbles forms: cutting the wire; forming it; soldering it and rolling it.

Barry reminded me he had a lovely set of metal punches that might help me get the marks and textures I was interested in trying to get.

And so I paired up the pieces and made some marks. Some of the small dots were clearly a bit close to the edge!

And then to oxidising. Still loving the darkness you can get with this process. I left a couple of them out of the solution; and hte light make sit look as if I haven't done them all, but I did.

And then to the polishing. This is the non-oxidised pair with the one on the right before polishing; and the one of the left after polishing. Shiny!

But this is one of the things that I like with some of the oxidising - the leaving of dark marks on silver metal. On the left before polishing, on the right afterwards. And so on.

And the stash of components I now have. I plan to make many more pebbles, leave them unmarked/untextured, but possibly oxidising some of them, and then pairing the plain ones with the textured ones. Plan A.