Jewelry Casting

I casted a few more pieces and soldered my ring shut. I bet you all forgot about that ring, but I'm still working on it!!
I'm going to make these into charms, probably earrings. They're unfinished, but they will be a nice polished silver (with jump rings) when they're done.

Here's the ring for now...still not the finished color, and I'm going to set a stone on it (hopefully next week).

I've finished crocheting this guy too...just need to stuff and assemble him, so for  now he's just a pile of pieces.

I've been working on making more Butis and more accessories for the Butis, so I'll also post some of those once I get a few more and can take some pics.

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Hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful Fall weather!

Metal Casting (for jewelry)

I'm still working on the peacock costume, so I'll finish up with that a little later.
In the meantime, I've been working on making jewelry by casting metals (Silver or Shibuichi). I video taped the actual casting portion of the process and posted it on youtube.
I'll try and post some photos of the mold-making process (at a later point) as well.  Apologies for the reverse order, but obviously the casting process is a lot cooler than the mold-making process.
So here are the videos of the casting.  This was done at UCSD's Craft Center.

Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1kSuVTX-I

Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP1YyY2lEHE

Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pysVwPEUqw4

Part Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dso42HJIGE8