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I must have been out of my frakkin' mind... But I made these for our wedding and there were all kinds of issues with the materials (mostly due to my own ignorance, but hey). Precious metal clay is awesome stuff to work with, but be prepared to bake any larger pieces in a kiln for longer than the instructions tell you and at a higher temperature. Also, be sure to brace anything that might slump, as the high temperatures will soften the metal as it's firing- I had to gently tap the Kani dragon with a raw-hide mallet on a mangrel (think "anvil") to put his tail back in place 'cuz it fell over in the kiln. This stuff is meant for smaller items, but no, I had to be ambitious and make something absolutely frakkin' GINORMOUS OUT OF IT.
When one of them broke after firing, I FREAKED. I raged at myself, I stomped around, I growled about how much I frakkin' SUCKED... Then I went and sulked in the dog-park nearby to calm down and think... When I came back about ten minues later, much calmer (more likely numb with despair), the guys had a suggestion for me that turned out to be all kinds of awesome and became our own little in-joke: here I was, spinning in place, whimpering to myself "How do I fix this?! How do I FIX THIS?! BLAAAAARGH!!!" and they come back with: "With a LASER!" Whut?
"Yeah, there's this jeweler down the road who can stitch your piece back together with a laser..."
Ok, that's just frakkin' COOL.
The ultimate in geek chic: an item that looks like it was made a thousand years ago, being repaired by a laser. How cool is THAT?
Anyway, here they are, in one piece, wearable and bloody gorgeous. Murrah and KaniS, in gold-plate and silver. Yes, that's a sapphire in Murrah's wee little eye, and a hematite in Kani's. You can just see our wedding bands in the back, there- those pretty braids of silver. I literally braided the clay to get that effect, and used a cool idea I flashed on when I was working: you can make an "eternal braid" by being careful when you join the ends so the braid never really ends... Much like my frustration with my art, dagnabbit. *chuckle*
When one of them broke after firing, I FREAKED. I raged at myself, I stomped around, I growled about how much I frakkin' SUCKED... Then I went and sulked in the dog-park nearby to calm down and think... When I came back about ten minues later, much calmer (more likely numb with despair), the guys had a suggestion for me that turned out to be all kinds of awesome and became our own little in-joke: here I was, spinning in place, whimpering to myself "How do I fix this?! How do I FIX THIS?! BLAAAAARGH!!!" and they come back with: "With a LASER!" Whut?
"Yeah, there's this jeweler down the road who can stitch your piece back together with a laser..."
Ok, that's just frakkin' COOL.
The ultimate in geek chic: an item that looks like it was made a thousand years ago, being repaired by a laser. How cool is THAT?
Anyway, here they are, in one piece, wearable and bloody gorgeous. Murrah and KaniS, in gold-plate and silver. Yes, that's a sapphire in Murrah's wee little eye, and a hematite in Kani's. You can just see our wedding bands in the back, there- those pretty braids of silver. I literally braided the clay to get that effect, and used a cool idea I flashed on when I was working: you can make an "eternal braid" by being careful when you join the ends so the braid never really ends... Much like my frustration with my art, dagnabbit. *chuckle*
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
Species Western Dragon
Size 1280 x 853px
File Size 743.6 kB
*blush* Yeah, I was an idiot for trying something like this. But it still worked! Kani is the one who's most able to support the two of us, money-wise, right now, and I guess I wanted to show that I could contribute, too: so I made our wedding outfits, these torcs and our wedding rings. I did a bunch of other stuff, but those three were the most important. Now that I have a small kiln and torch and other tools of my own, I'll be making more smaller items like this to try and make back some of the money that man keeps pumping into me.
*grins evilly* Yeah, I guess it would cool to be able to say that to someone, wouldn't it? Heh. That aspect honestly didn't make much of a presence in my mind. I was more like: "I can't afford a jeweler to make these, I'm terrible at describing what I want, I'm not even sure of what I want, yet and the wedding's a week away, and heck, the designs I've seen from most jewelry-houses are so BLAH..."
That sucks, to lose gold, especially if it was as high a Karat as I suspect it was- 18K? I'm pretty protective of my wee little hoard of gold- a couple of rings, some hoop earrings, a pin, a watchband, stuff like that. I wore most of it with my finery on the wedding day. >^__^<
Well from what I know, Dragons DO enjoy their gold very well :3
I used to have a lot... but over the years, Ive lost my diamond earring studs, the ring, had to pawn a rope necklace D:The most gold/jewelry I ever wear these days is my wedding band. ~ponders digging through her jewelry box to find any remnants...~
But its alright :D
..I think o.o
I used to have a lot... but over the years, Ive lost my diamond earring studs, the ring, had to pawn a rope necklace D:The most gold/jewelry I ever wear these days is my wedding band. ~ponders digging through her jewelry box to find any remnants...~
But its alright :D
..I think o.o
Thanks so much, hon! These are actually arm-torcs- we wear them on our upper arms. It would have been an insane amount of silver to make neck torcs, though I may make some one day... *grins evilly* You can certainly touch mine, if you ever get the chance to see it person- we're still workingo ut the problems with the silver one Kani has (she's brittle, darnit).
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