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Post by Colin Creed » Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:28 pm

Hi Everyone,

Diamond set wedder cast in 18ctWG was milled as flat design in Modela Player.

Surfer wax is to be cast in 9ctYG as a fixed pendant. Lugs have to fit a 100gm chain.
Chain links are 7.5mm wide x 2.5mm thick. This job is for another Jeweller.
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Note that I had to add a dob of wax to fix small hole in frame
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band

Post by frog113 » Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:14 am

Looks Great

Really like the band
nice amd simple amd should wear great
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Post by jeff dunnington » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:37 am

Nice work Colin

The scroll on the band looks like one of the characters in the ornament.

That is the type of job that will be so easy once the rotary is done.

One of these days :( :oops:

BTW Man Those guys down under sure like the big chains.

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Post by Colin Creed » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:37 am

Thanks Larry & Jeff,

I created a scroll similar to the one in ornaments but different.
Check 3D Engrave for the posting of Scroll wedder file.
I've added the scroll so it can be saved as an ornament.

regards Colin

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Parrot catch Masters

Post by Colin Creed » Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:39 pm

Hi everyone,

Thought you all might like to see how the parrot catch came out.

Note: I've posted a revised 3de file for all of you, in 3D Engrave.

These are Master patterns that I've assembled together, just to check their actions with 0.4mm piano wire as a spring.
These will be polished then rubber moulded, as another Jeweller already wants a 14mm one, in 9ctYG.

regards Colin
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Post by Colin Creed » Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:21 pm

Hi Everyone,

As most of you would know, the majority of my work is mainly doing hand carving, as Trade work.
My whole idea of buying a mill was to help me with the roughing out of some jobs & being able to add text.

Well here's a perfect example of what gets thrown at me by other Jewellers!!
Design is to be the Master for a pair of 18ctYG cuff links.
The finished diameter of the base will be 23mm x 4mm high approx.

Created all the various sections in 3D Engrave, then milled in Modela Player.
(This is the job that I was doing when my motor finally needed replacing!!)
As it's a Master that will be cast in Stg Sil then molded, I've milled the wax 10% larger.
If it's approved by the customer, this is the last I'll see of the piece.
It will be finished by the Jeweller that's given me the wax order.

The hand carving has taken about 4 to 5Hrs to get all the detail that was required.
That's far less time than what it would of taken if I didn't have the mill.

regards, Colin
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Milled wax as the rough blank for hand carving.
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Artwork that I was supplied with, to create this wax!!
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Post by Jwlrymkr » Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:26 pm

Awesome work as always Colin!
Is there any particular reason you didn't mill the hais and face any further?
Great hand work!
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Post by Colin Creed » Mon Nov 14, 2005 10:43 pm

Thanks Ken,

The main reason was that I spent a heap of hours just creating all the seperate sections & then raising them in different ways.
The artwork wasn't much help either, I had to scan a photocopy, then spend ages tidying it up.
After all of that, I really just wanted to get it on the mill & then try to finish hand carving it.
If I'd had more time to play around & if I felt that I could of got the required results quickly, I'd have played more with it.

regards, Colin

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Doing the job in parts then assembling earlier or later

Post by Winstone » Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:17 am

Most interesting work. I am very impressed. I made a piece for a Church, but instead of trying to do it as one piece, I broke up the elements into parts.
1) The coin part or the background was layed out with lettering and cut as one piece
2) The image of the Blessed Virgin was cut out as a single piece with two
pins on the back of the carving. This allows me to cast it in silver or gold, or colored gold later, There are two matching female holes on the coin to take the figure.
3) The other elements of the award for merit for the Catholic High School award for academic excellence, were made in the same way. As the school holds the copyright for this item, I am not able to show it, but nothing has prevented me from sharing construction details.
I would dearly love to do some humor as part of my portfolio, so many items are so so serious, it does get hard at times. Colin, you are a very gifted jeweler, I am honored to be able to share ideas with you on this website. Winstone

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Well Done

Post by JewelryDoctor » Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:59 am

Very cool work Colin. It is great to get to see the stuff you do. I do have a question, with all of the carving that you do on your waxes what combination of tools do you like. i.e. gravers, or your own custom tools. BTW I would be curious to see the file that you created just to get to the point to start carving.

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Post by Colin Creed » Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:18 pm

Thanks Winstone & Michael,

Here's a photo of all the different tools that I used to do the carving on this job.
It should be noted that I don't use any of the blue handled carvers for heating up & applying wax!!
They're Stainless Steel, very sharp & quite expensive. I use them only for carving & shaping.
These carvers used to be part of Kerr's range of tools, but I'm not sure if they're still available?
I use a wax welder to melt & apply any wax that's needed to fill up an area.
If need be, I also use it to roughly sculpt the wax into shape.
I mostly use the same wax that I'm carving with, to do any of the filling or the build up.

regards, Colin
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Range of tools used for hand carving the MSC wax
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Looks like dental tools

Post by Winstone » Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:55 pm

The tools look like dental tools. I got some from my dentist that had small nicks in them. He saves them for me. I put them on a honing wheel and they are as good as new. Dentist tools if they get damaged can not be used again in the human mouth.
My dentist is facinated with the MDX-15 so by doing some simple cad work for him, I have yet another market for MDX-15 work..... try it, you will possibly get a similar deal like mine. All they can say is no, and nothing is lost. Winstone

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