Arnaud Van Tilburgh
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To be honest, it is Jeroen my son in law who showed a pair of these and I thought I use the idea as well. But instead of colouring using a flame, I coloured these in two steps. Also my daughter Lola is working on a collection of these sort of coloured earrings.
The Ti sheet I used is less than 0.5 mm thick. I pierces two similar shapes, put them on wooden block doing some flair cutting.
After that I filed the engraving with nail polish and after it dried, used sandpaper to remove the nail polish from the surface leaving the cuts filled.
Then I coloured the bleu at something of 23 volt, removed the nail polish using acetone and coloured the brass at something like 9 volt. As you lower the volt, it doesn’t affect the higher volt colours.
After bending them I used the PUK to do the borders. Drilled a hole and formed some Ti wire to complete these.
Next time I probably will cut both at the same time, reflected on of course. It is probably faster and less complicated to cut them also mirrored at the same time.
I also have to tell you that I recently bought me a Softbox and tripod to do the photography. That after reading Sam’s article for the FEGA magazine on these kind of photography.
So now I have a studio area in my shop to do the photos. So thanks again for the article Sam.
Thanks for watching, arnaud
The Ti sheet I used is less than 0.5 mm thick. I pierces two similar shapes, put them on wooden block doing some flair cutting.
After that I filed the engraving with nail polish and after it dried, used sandpaper to remove the nail polish from the surface leaving the cuts filled.
Then I coloured the bleu at something of 23 volt, removed the nail polish using acetone and coloured the brass at something like 9 volt. As you lower the volt, it doesn’t affect the higher volt colours.
After bending them I used the PUK to do the borders. Drilled a hole and formed some Ti wire to complete these.
Next time I probably will cut both at the same time, reflected on of course. It is probably faster and less complicated to cut them also mirrored at the same time.
I also have to tell you that I recently bought me a Softbox and tripod to do the photography. That after reading Sam’s article for the FEGA magazine on these kind of photography.
So now I have a studio area in my shop to do the photos. So thanks again for the article Sam.
Thanks for watching, arnaud
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