Andrew Biggs
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Well this is a first for me. Both carving and sculptured gold overlay as either technique I had never tried before. After seeing Phil Coggan’s tutorial on how to do it I thought I’d give it a try.
The gold mask is 24k gold wire overlayed onto the steel and fully sculptured as well. The photo flattens it a bit but all the edges are rounded and shaped. John B and Sam Welch helped me out with the finer points of that process.
The process was a long one especially since I was not 100% sure of what I was doing along the way so it involved quite a bit of thinking, observation and guessing. It also involved making tools as I went along and making alterations to them to perform better.
It was also surprising the sheer number of tools used along the way. Gravers of various shapes from square 90 degree to small flats and flat chisels, hammer, scrapers, burnishers, beading punch, punches, inlay tools and finally very small abrasive rubbers that I brought from Rio Grande. It’s fair to say that a great deal of the work was done with hand tools with no power.
However it was a very enjoyable exercise where I learnt a lot and is something that I’d like to incorporate in future work.
The small picture is actual finished size.
As usual, your comments and critique are always welcome.
Cheers
Andrew
The gold mask is 24k gold wire overlayed onto the steel and fully sculptured as well. The photo flattens it a bit but all the edges are rounded and shaped. John B and Sam Welch helped me out with the finer points of that process.
The process was a long one especially since I was not 100% sure of what I was doing along the way so it involved quite a bit of thinking, observation and guessing. It also involved making tools as I went along and making alterations to them to perform better.
It was also surprising the sheer number of tools used along the way. Gravers of various shapes from square 90 degree to small flats and flat chisels, hammer, scrapers, burnishers, beading punch, punches, inlay tools and finally very small abrasive rubbers that I brought from Rio Grande. It’s fair to say that a great deal of the work was done with hand tools with no power.
However it was a very enjoyable exercise where I learnt a lot and is something that I’d like to incorporate in future work.
The small picture is actual finished size.
As usual, your comments and critique are always welcome.
Cheers
Andrew
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