To use a brand new Milling machine, to imprint
patterns into copper or silver and produce a bracelet and/or ring.
A fellow
student who became a good friend, Barbara, and myself turned out to be the only
two in the class with no prior jewellery experience and therefore were labelled
‘babies’. Fortunately I was not a complete novice with the equipment in the
workshop so I could produce something but I decided not to experiment with expensive
silver and chose copper.
I was very pleased with the feather brooch, could have
sold it a dozen times over, and my mother got a copper bracelet for her
birthday, purported to relieve aching wrists, the ruby ring was a great
exercise in cutting, milling, soldering and setting (the stone).I also had a
crack at producing links for a necklace, but ran out of time. I thank the other
students in the class for their patient forbearance of my many stupid and frequent
questions.
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