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UFO Necklace! Or: The other thing I've been doing the past f
So, glass was not the only thing keeping me busy since September. I also took a Jewelry course and learned how to work with jewelry metals. This is our final project and the culmination of everything we learned this term. We had to make a chain with at least 50 solder points, so after watching three weeks of Red Dwarf, I made this!
The chain is quite long in the end, it sits just at my sternum. The reason the copper doesn't look like copper is because it's bee treated with a cupric nitrate patina, which gets you this really cool turquoise texture that unfortunately is lost in these pictures. Yes, I soldered every single link and eye point on this damn thing and yes, you read that correctly, it's made with STERLING silver, even the rivets. This is by far and away the most expensive project I've made for anything, ever. >.< Enjoy the shiny, folks!
The chain is quite long in the end, it sits just at my sternum. The reason the copper doesn't look like copper is because it's bee treated with a cupric nitrate patina, which gets you this really cool turquoise texture that unfortunately is lost in these pictures. Yes, I soldered every single link and eye point on this damn thing and yes, you read that correctly, it's made with STERLING silver, even the rivets. This is by far and away the most expensive project I've made for anything, ever. >.< Enjoy the shiny, folks!
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I love the idea of the chain. I think it might even work better as two separate pieces (UFO plus plain chain, and just the alien-head chain without a pendant). I like them both but the chain is a bit big for that size of charm, and if it had smaller links you wouldn't be able to see the alien faces so well.
I really like the mix of materials. Does that make it hard to care for? If you polish the silver parts, does that affect the patina on the copper?
I really like the mix of materials. Does that make it hard to care for? If you polish the silver parts, does that affect the patina on the copper?
Thanks. ^^ Actually, I had to work it to remove some pretty extensive fire scale on the pendant and in the process I did rub off some of the patina, which annoys me to no end. There's a show coming up soon and I'd like to submit this, but between that and the fact that there's still some fire scale I couldn't get off, I'm rethinking my submission.
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