. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. cers you canget almost any degree of fineness of , however, the work is to be afterwardenameled, it is useless to spend too much 189 Carving m time upon surface modeling; a great deal Metal must be left to be done in the enameling. Sprays of leaves and flowers or knops of leafage can be very easily produced by this method in the following manner. Suppose you wish to carve a spiral knop of nut a piece of16 - gage silver,beat it into adome of the sizeanddepthofyourknop. Annealthe metal. Now
. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. cers you canget almost any degree of fineness of , however, the work is to be afterwardenameled, it is useless to spend too much 189 Carving m time upon surface modeling; a great deal Metal must be left to be done in the enameling. Sprays of leaves and flowers or knops of leafage can be very easily produced by this method in the following manner. Suppose you wish to carve a spiral knop of nut a piece of16 - gage silver,beat it into adome of the sizeanddepthofyourknop. Annealthe metal. Nowdraw with a finebrush and Indianink the spiraltwigs and themasses of 126. See that branches or twigs stretch from each line of the spiralto the lines above and below it (fig. 126).This is in order that the knop may be strongall over. With a drill and a fret-saw pierceout the interspaces. Take your gravers,begin with the round scorper, after wettingthe tip of the tool and cut grooves length-wise along the twigs, so that the spiralgrowth of the twig is emphasized. Next,190.
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