News and information regarding Hammer & Hand Bangalow.

So this week I forged a couple of 200mm oars.. and have been #Sand-Casting a bunch them in Bronze for three #Dream-Boats that I made from clay last week at home in the Garden .. Beautiful time !… I was also making some ‘Triple B’ female form pieces (Belly,Bums,Boobs?) for a collection titled “Ascension” ..(they will have rocket fins or wings, plasma cut , gold-leafed of made of wire or forged.. not sure..All the clay models are masters, to be sand-cast in Iron at a local foundry. I forgot to photograph the oars but here are some of the clay pieces nearly ready for casting…

One of them is a Rolly-Poley girl…sigh..

Haven’t I just been the tardy one?  Certainly as far as blogging goes anyway!

A peek at some of the earrings I’ve made since my last post 🙂

Blue, blue day earrings

Honesty/Silver dollar earrigns

a little retro, a little camp tin earrings

Gravillia seed pod earrings

little leaves

seas of green

purple haze

soothe in blue

mini cones

sea foam sparkling in your ears

In the pink

A customer brought in a beautiful opal triplet that her father had given her and asked if I could set in a pendant. I offered up a few designs and she liked on this one..

Opal pendant by Julian de Saxe

This little swallow was carved first in wax.. then a bronze sand cast taken from that .. then made that cast into a master and cast 3 more.. “Oh what FUN! he said, waving his wooden leg” 

The bottom bird of the three is the Wax..the left hand top bird on the brick is the ‘master’ and the other the first cast and there is one in the ‘boxes’ (just poured)

Got the hang of the ‘Tattoo Heart n’ Scroll’ ..

Anchors are somewhat more tricky but with a bit of clean up… (he understates)

I have cast larger bronze pieces in the past using #Lostwax and #SandCasting in #Greensand and after running out of  #Cuttlefish I thought I might look into small scale Jewellery castings in sand… Julian had mentioned a casting system using a product called #Delft Sand but the price of the sand (an Oil sand) is a bit steep for me so I went hunting up some fine sand and Bentonite to make a greensand.

I acquired some fine #Zircon sand and #Bentonite from a ceramic supply place … Mixed it at 5% Bentonite and made a couple of flasks out of square steel tubing.. (Thanks Ben Beames for the method from years ago !)

So I want to make a few Brooches based on classic Tattoo Art and I’v shaped a ‘master’ using “Sculpy” .. a polymer clay ..

Well !! .. Steep learning curve ..Again!.. and the last 3 of 8 attempts have been successful !  The pictures here include a bit of the process.. and the finished brooch will be able to be engraved with a message.. ie:   MOM…. TROO LUV … ROVER… KEVIN… ABBOT .. MURDOCH..????

#Cuttle-fish cast  #Thylacine  #TasmanianTiger / 925 Sterling silver  …

and .. messy Friday bench…

#AnvilBroochesPins

Cut an #anvil master from a piece of 1.6mm mild steel sheet and Cast in silver using #Cuttlefish bone/shell

These will be brooches I think…

Good day in the wkshp discussing conceptual jewellery/sculpture/adornment and straight-up derivative works, motivation/intention and merit/satisfaction … with a bit of quantum physics/beholding-eye chucked in for good measure ..

Thats how it can roll with Lucille !!

Two little ‘Pods’ ..Just home from the foundry .. wee wee wee wee ..

A couple of older pieces recast in ‘maleable steel.. Now for a bit of clean-up..