I'm in the throes of holiday orders of personalized stamped jewelry, plus it's miserable outside and not good for taking studio workbench shots, so here's the result of my bead table Wednesday.
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| On the way to new homes! |
Okay, here's a little eye candy...
Okay, I'll throw you another bone along the "behind the scenes" line. I was drilling a hole in a piece of sterling strip, AKA my Linear Drop Pendant, when my drill bit stopped drilling. It went halfway through the material and then just sounded like a dental drill without making any progress. I have a set of bits in various tiny sizes, so I put another bit in my Dremel and tried again. No luck, same deal. Plus that bit didn't want to drill other pieces of sterling either. After I went through a couple more bits I realized that a piece of the original bit had broken off and become lodged in the edge of the hole I was drilling, so it was dulling subsequent bits. Fail! And I didn't know how to fix it. If I hadn't already stamped the piece I might have just scrapped it, but I'm stingy with my time and materials. I finally just used my center punch (conical tip) to make divots on the front and back, and tapped my solder pick through the thin spot. Fortunately the finished piece looked fine. It's days like this when I want to limit the design options to stamping blanks that come ready to stamp, no filing or cutting, but what's the fun in that?
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