Bangalow
News and information regarding Hammer & Hand Bangalow.
A few statement rings (mind you don’t take someone’s eye out!), and some delicate little flowers.
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- Teeny-tiny watch gears roll-pressed into sterling silver
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- Cast seed pod ring – the “small version”
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- Cast seed pod ring – the larger one
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- Crown stacking rings
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- “O” ring
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- Dainty bauble stacker rings
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- Sterling silver and gold leaf petal ring
October 26, 2012
Posted by Bruce Pringle
“A Forged Landscape” EXHIBITION
Posted by Bruce Pringle
Tasmania Bound
Rosie and I are on the road to Deloraine in Tasmania where I will be helping with the “Tasmanian Artist Blacksmiths “demonstration at the Tasmanian Craft Fair (I will be comparing and stopping them talking to girls while they build a piece of street furniture for the town . I am also part of a group metal exhibition at Artifakt Gallery in Deloraine titled “A Forged Landscape”.
October 25, 2012
Posted by Julian
Cuttle Bone Casting
I made some new sterling silver earrings today using the Cuttle Bone Casting technique. There’s lots of cuttle bone on the beaches around Byron Bay and it’s fun to collect. It’s very soft so you can use just about anything to carve designs into it. It’s very resistant to heat so it’s perfect for using as a mold to cast jewellery. Cuttle bone has a beautiful wavy texture that is transferred to the finished item. Here are some pictures of the process…
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- Tracing the brass pattern onto the cuttle bone
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- Carving the cuttle bone
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- The finished cuttle bone carving
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- Two halves of the mold
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- The mold is wired together and ready to pour the metal
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- The molten metal is poured into the mold
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- These are the finished castings with the sprue button cut off
and here’s the finished earrings…
Sterling Silver Earrings by Julian de Saxe
October 2, 2012
Posted by Jen Banks
of things which are round….
….and shiny…..and colourful….and ordered….and random….enough about me – here are some earrings!
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- colourful tins
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- fern fronds perhpas?
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- textured copper kinetic earrings
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- a tassled trapeze maybe?
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- very sweet grass seed head earrings
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- scenic tins
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- vista in a tin earrings
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- the blues
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- super-bling
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- some more blues
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- birds and flowers
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- cute, under-stated, teeny-bling
August 26, 2012
Posted by Bruce Pringle
The Whitehouse
July 22, 2012
Posted by Bruce Pringle
Something from nothing
July 3, 2012
Posted by Jen Banks
Just a couple of Pendants…
…I’ve just noticed my ‘Pendants’ folder is groaning under the weight of un-posted neck decorations – must be time to set a few free!
Enjoy!
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- kelp? sea fan? tree roots? sterling silver pendant and chain
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- sterling and laboradite pendant OOAK SOLD
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- sterling dish and stone pendant apx 40mm dia
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- cast shell – 40 grams of solid sterling silver
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- cups and stones? tentacles? mushrooms? drops in a pond? liquid mercury?
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- cups and stones? tentacles? mushrooms? drops in a pond? liquid mercury?
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- …’her skin warms the sun’… sterling silver and 9ct gold – for our ‘Inverted World’ Exhibition 4 May ’12
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- …’dark sparks fill the light’… – for our ‘Inverted World’ Exhibition 4 May ’12
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- two hours of hand sawing later….very happy with this pendant – a VERY close up view of a leaf
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- ‘the sky flies in the bird’ #2 – for our ‘Inverted World’ Exhibition 4 May ’12
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- …’the mirror looks at itself in my face’… and, yes, all. cut. by. hand. – for our ‘Inverted World’ Exhibition 4 May ’12
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- cast seed pod pendant
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- cast branch necklace
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- cast seed pod
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- cast budding twig necklace
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- circle of love. Sterling and 9ct gold leaf pendant
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- leaf pendant, now with added bling :o)
May 27, 2012
Posted by Jen Banks
The Inverted World Exhibition
As I sit her with my cat on my knee to keep me warm, I’m thinking very fondly of Bruce’s fire drums and the cosy, cheerfulness of that night a few weeks ago that was our last exhibition….and remembering that I haven’t posted pictures of my work for the occasion – so here they are!
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- the sky flies in the bird
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- the dress wears a beautiful girl
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- the breeze is brushed by a woman’s hair
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- her skin warms the sun
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- the road walks in the man
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- dark sparks fill the light
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- the glove puts on it’s hand
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- the sky flies in the bird
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- the mirror looks at itself in my face
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- i am written into the world
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- the poem holds a hand in it’s pen