Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Other Jewellers that have used electroformimg

I am in the process of designing and trying to make a ring with a setting out of wax and then electroforming it but I have no idea how it will work. I have just seen on carrot box a lady who has been electroforming objects to make rings etc. look at the link below http://olgakosica.com/index.php/photos/album/25/photo/363.html
one of her rings with a setting is similar to what I am busy doing.

electroforming process- technique

The first electro forming I did was where I was taught by Kirsten at her and her dads workshop where she showed me their process of how they electro formed shoes for their business and she helped me elecrto form some leaves and flowers. I had prepared my very dried out hydrangea flower by dipping it in lacka (spelling?) and letting it dry as you can see below. I had already attached the copper wire to it making it part of the flowers conductor.


I love the crinkled up edges of a dried hydrangea! each flower has its own character as they each take a different shape when they dry.




Next I had to cover all the surface area of my hydrangea with conductive copper dust which can only be bought in KG's so Kirsten kindly gave me some! The flowers look so pretty in the copper paint! The sinker is to weigh the flower down so it does not float in the electroforming bath.



Now we had to wait to for it to dry..................