Last week Jana showed us how to pour ingots and then make alloys of copper and fine silver. As you know, I am a bit of a fan of melting metal and I truly enjoyed being a 'mad scientist' and creating my range of 7 alloy (some did samples from 9 parts pure silver/1 part copper and to the other end of the spectrum 1 part silver and 9 parts copper).
It's been very interesting watching the process of how the metal responds to forming, drawing out to wire etc. What I've noticed is that the alloys at the higher end of the spectrum are more malleable and the ones in the middle, say 30/70 and 40/60 are more brittle.
This week we're finishing some pieces we made in class and also experimenting with gold alloys - which is so very exciting. That'll be my next post and I'll share with you some stories about my classmates.
below are photos of Jana in action.
Thank you for reading!
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| Jana melting her metals (in kooky outfit - Jana's style) |
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| The red hot ingot. |
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| Pouring a sheet of pure silver ingot. |
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| Jana showing us how to repair flashings from the ingot. |
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And Jana's wedding ring. Lori Talcot made it for her...I'm a bit obsessed with it!
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| Silver and Copper alloys ranging from 10 % silver/90% copper to 90% silver/10% copper. |
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| Some of our alloyed samples drawn into wire or flattened. |
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| Iron and gold alloy...not sure what can be done with this, it's too hard! |
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