Salve again, souls of the ancient world!
I hate to continue with eteeernas counts and entries, and it will interesting!
eager to start this written denuevo and no camera was just me .... but one thing counts! xDD
this time is the odyssey of the Viking Geat Arann in the world of noble metals. besides everything is aprendis Arann goldsmith, more specifically of the goldsmith , Christian Ullrich, among other things Herrero, medieval fencing expert and member of the Norwegian colony in Chile .... xD data only mode.
someone once said "do not tempt me with gold, my son, my metal iron (Eyvind," father "of Siegfried in the movie Ring of the Nibelung). is remarkable that phrase and I identify a lot with it, but still I can not ignore the magic of this job: P
as other data, is a jeweler who sells jewelry, a goldsmith who makes it. Lala
good, now if I start.
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all have started some 2 or 3 years (more eguren 2) and had a couple of years in the coats of mail when I found this and is "wow"! was the first time I knew Joeri mesh, and further, the saw to reach.
in a couple of days and had found a supplier of silver wires, gold-filled (metal with a small gold content) and goldsmith tools. I was, I got a new pair of pliers and a few grams wire (silver, gold-filled and gold silver ounce sold here is more or less half a euro (300 Chilean pesos) a gram, 2 gram of gold-filled (1300) and about 20 gram Gold (15000).
first thing I did was a Byzantine-style bracelet and rings of 5 mm internal diameter (the wire is 0.8 mm thick, so that the fabric looked pretty mediocre, but was clearly happy with the xDDD result) I have pictures of that band, but the following styled "Middle Persian" (half-persian)
so I developed it, along with the coats of mail, and doing enough business actually get to earn enough money in about half year (about 100,000 euros pesos/143 for a child of that age was quite unfortunately was never all together xD)
also began to make smaller rings, 3mm in the bowels of the pencils bic, with these the result was bastaaaante better than the 5 so that helped me a lot to get the money up (although many of those things I bought my old xDD).
in the photo is a 3mm chain ring, one half is half persian and half now if it is Byzantine.
and so spend time while still working alone on the wire. sometimes even worked with tin, and to outstanding mold, melting the tin, it was the only thing I could Fundor to temperatures might reach, soon come a time when I had enough money to melt
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something I have not had success xDD, only had a torch so that only obtains his gasfiter a lot semisoldados wire protruding from a rock opaque and amorphous.
it was not until the day of my graduation my parents gave me a goldsmith's torch, and with that I could finally melt the metal.
So the day I went into my first big project orfebreristico a Mjöllnir or "hammer of thor", had long wanted one without the posivilidad to do, providing various forms and techniques that I will explain in due time. and more or least 7 attempts, the third one finally worked, and my Mjollnir, if biuen was not perfect, it could at least be taken to the neck without shame xD
So it was more or less came out of the mold, of course, after having sanding enough and frosted with a couple of dremel tools, ahh, and shackle him to hang soldier .... That was also an interesting job, a drop forge red silver to make a small sheet and this one more thing had been close to a lot of fun xDD, although he did not know weld or silver solder and had founded the whole thing about trying to do ...
I fixed a little later, I made a few more things triskel and, most failures, and in November last year the change came last. In the medieval festival that takes place here every year (for 3 years only, we are still growing xD) I met Ullrich, the goldsmith Viking, and although it is somewhat late, in March this year between classes to take seriously goldsmith with him.
Devo say that although the course was somewhat expensive, knowledge is money (as I said otroconocido but who also knew Ullrich) in the first class already knew well cast, solder, sheet and set, My first job was a pendant of Celtic inspiration, made in silver.
the next ring of inspiration followed by Viking and so pretty time doing various jobs, learning various types of crimping and technical services.
For those who believe, anyway, that the goldsmith is a delicate job .... xDD it was wrong, laminar metal is the hardest work I've done in my life xD. hours rotating metal roller lever overcoming all metal resistance .... is not less xD
and ... more or less now that I'm actually getting ready to work on a commission right now xDD
but it took from March, so do not think that's all I've done .... there is still a xD little
this cube was one of my first creations
although technically it was also an exercise in those classes (someone tells me how the hell did wright exercise? xDD). make that cube was one big xD can cost a tremendous way xD but in the end went well and was beautiful. And it served to learn
this slope is of my latest creations, although it was the first piece I designed
, the first day I went to those classes. I personally think it looks great, I did that day I said to myself "let's see if it xD" before beginning
a couple of days after setting it the "eye of tiger" and was able to finally terminated.
emm ..... of the rest so I have no photos good xD, but I assume that the upload when you start doing tutorials. and if they will put tutorials! I promise! xDD that
Greetings
Arann