I'm taking Small Scale Sculpture over the summer, which involves the primary medium of metals to craft art that is relatively small and somewhat jewelry-like. Our first exercise was to cut Lincoln and Washington out of coins using a jeweler's saw. The jeweler's saw is useful tool that we will be working with a lot, so it's important to learn how to use it without breaking too many blades. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with these guys now...
The second part of the exercise was to make a ring from a quarter. A hole was punched into a quarter to start then the metal was annealed to make it workable. To get the ring form, I had to hammer the sides down over a ring mandrel.
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