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I am posting 2 images,to show you that leaving the dolphin bright is very hard to read. A bit of blacking makes the small details like the small fishes read easily.
My wife,for whose business I made this,has decided to leave the extra squeezed metal there. She will file up the edges wavy like the deckled edge of hand made paper and leave it that way.
She also thinks that rather than make this a locket,we will just use the dolphin as a necklace. It will be less expensive to sell for sure.
We will send it off and see if this piece can be cast,or if the fine details will get blurred or lost. It seems likely that I will have to hand coin each one of these pieces by hand. This takes some time,as I anneal,press,anneal,press,anneal,put a patterned metal against the back,and press again,to put a patterned design on the back of the piece. The press is hand pumped up,which takes MY weight (not my wife's small weight) to bear down on the handle.
On the blackened image,you can see that the Sun's outline,which goes beyond the border,has been filed off. Some filing of the border will also be needed where the Sun ray touched the border. Those will be eliminated,the deckled edge made more wavy,and loops attached for the neck chain.
Remember,the image is 1 1/8" tall,and about 5/8" wide from border to border.
My wife,for whose business I made this,has decided to leave the extra squeezed metal there. She will file up the edges wavy like the deckled edge of hand made paper and leave it that way.
She also thinks that rather than make this a locket,we will just use the dolphin as a necklace. It will be less expensive to sell for sure.
We will send it off and see if this piece can be cast,or if the fine details will get blurred or lost. It seems likely that I will have to hand coin each one of these pieces by hand. This takes some time,as I anneal,press,anneal,press,anneal,put a patterned metal against the back,and press again,to put a patterned design on the back of the piece. The press is hand pumped up,which takes MY weight (not my wife's small weight) to bear down on the handle.
On the blackened image,you can see that the Sun's outline,which goes beyond the border,has been filed off. Some filing of the border will also be needed where the Sun ray touched the border. Those will be eliminated,the deckled edge made more wavy,and loops attached for the neck chain.
Remember,the image is 1 1/8" tall,and about 5/8" wide from border to border.
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