I'm really enjoying your videos. ..I watch a lot of silver and gold smithing stuff and it is very educational but your stuff is educational and fun and you come up with some surprising and beautiful ideas. Thanks for sharing xx
Hi Anne, I love creating interesting textures. But, it's really helpful to have a sample that you can show clients and that records how you made it. Have fun and play safely at your bench. Thanks for your support! : )
Thanks for a very helpful video. I am not a jeweller, but many of these techniques are transferable to the making of metal fishing lures. Its amazing how you can get light to reflect off a metal surface with much greater intensity when it has a texture punched in to it... I discovered one texture completely by chance. I used a piece of scrap copper pipe and it had that turquoise blue verdigris deposit inside. Well I did a ball peined texture on top of the verdigris, I never bothered to remove it first. After pickling it and polishing it afterwards I had a look with the loupe and was amazed. Each blow had fractured the verdigris and made a microscopic "dried mud" impression on the surface. It astonishes me how the copper or brass will register the tiniest detail even a tiny scratch on the hammer
Thanks for sharing your comments. I'm glad that you found the information transferable to the creation of your fishing lures. Thanks for your support! : )
Way cool! I love how you used the scouring pad and spiral to get texture. I really need to start working with sheet metal. I've been putting it off for too long!
padali29 Well, if you work primarily in wax, you can still use these same ideas to create textured surfaces on your waxes. Instead of striking the tools and materials with a hammer, you can warm them up and push them into your wax. I hope that this gives you some ideas. Thanks for watching! : )
Dharlee Minter Glad to learn that you were pleasantly surprised. The OJA posts new videos every week. If you subscribe to our channel you will receive update notifications. Thanks for watching! : )
Glad you liked the video. BTW, I always have one inch coppers squares at the ready to make a little sample of any new finish or texture that I'm working with. Not all of them are winners. But, these samples provide me with a great reference resource. Thanks for your support! : )
I love your videos and thank you for all of the work you put into them! Can you please tell me how achieved a certain texture? At :57 on the 8 square sheet, it’s 2nd from the left, lower level. It looks like circles in circles of different sizes and shapes surrounded by tiny dots. The centers of your larger circles look puffed back out but I didn’t see anything on the opposite side when you flipped that sheet. And some are oval? I was thinking tubing and tried it but it didn’t come out anywhere close to similar. Yours looks so organic! Thanks again!
I’m glad to hear that you’re enjoying the OJA’s videos. The texture sample you mentioned was made using a large zero stamp, a smaller circle stamp and a center punch. I started with the largest stamp, using it randomly on the surface. The circle stamp was used next. Then I filled in the negative space with a center punch. Hope this helps. 😀
Francine Deneault Yes! You can definitely apply the idea of creating a texture sample to polymer clay or wax. Instead of hammering items against the materials, you simply give them a gentle push. Thanks for watching! : )
Can You make a video for safety tips for propper anieling? For example pipe process and anieling safety. Like talk what you never should aniele( pipe with closed ends(flattened down) - will itt blow up or not under torch?
The OJA has videos that cover this information in its playlist. If you look at the OJA website at: www.onlinejewelryacademy.com, you'll find videos that specifically address annealing concerns. And, in videos about making hollow forms, you'll find information addressing the possibility of explosion when you heat closed forms. : )
I hammered a steel pot scrubber with a hammer directly against the copper surface to create the bark texture. The other one you asked about was made by directly striking the surface with a textured metal “shrinking” hammer used in auto body repairs. Thanks for watching! 😀
You'll need an annealed piece of copper and a variety of texturing tools including stamps and hammers. Draw boundary lines on your metal and just start creating isolated textures in each of the squares on your piece of sheet metal. If you don't like being so constricted to one small area, you can create separate sheets for each texture. Thanks for your support! : )
The copper texture sampler is something that you have to make yourself. It's basically a record of the various types of textures that you can make with the tools in your studio. Try making one. It's fun. Thanks for your support! : )
Hi Charley, The texture sampler can be made on any gauge of well annealed sheet copper. I find it best to make texture samples on the gauges that you normally use in your work. The sample shown in the photo was made using 16 gauge sheet copper. Thanks for your support! : )
The OJA does not give free advertising to vendors. We suggest that you search online for the products that you need and do some comparative shopping for the best price. Be sure to read reviews from others to see what they think about the services and products that they've received. Good luck with your creative pursuits. Thanks for your support! : )
I love texture on my metal work and love the simplicity of your ideas as well as the great tips. Thanks so much!
Once again - your expertise and generosity is so valuable! Thank you Prof John
Glad you enjoyed the video. I hope you come up with some amazing textures.
Thanks for your support! : )
I'm really enjoying your videos. ..I watch a lot of silver and gold smithing stuff and it is very educational but your stuff is educational and fun and you come up with some surprising and beautiful ideas. Thanks for sharing xx
Hi Anne, I love creating interesting textures. But, it's really helpful to have a sample that you can show clients and that records how you made it. Have fun and play safely at your bench.
Thanks for your support! : )
You are the coolest teacher ever! Thanks for this GREAT information!!!
Thanks for the compliment. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Personally, I love textured metal.
Thanks for your support! : )
Thanks for a very helpful video. I am not a jeweller, but many of these techniques are transferable to the making of metal fishing lures. Its amazing how you can get light to reflect off a metal surface with much greater intensity when it has a texture punched in to it...
I discovered one texture completely by chance. I used a piece of scrap copper pipe and it had that turquoise blue verdigris deposit inside. Well I did a ball peined texture on top of the verdigris, I never bothered to remove it first. After pickling it and polishing it afterwards I had a look with the loupe and was amazed. Each blow had fractured the verdigris and made a microscopic "dried mud" impression on the surface. It astonishes me how the copper or brass will register the tiniest detail even a tiny scratch on the hammer
Thanks for sharing your comments. I'm glad that you found the information transferable to the creation of your fishing lures.
Thanks for your support! : )
Great stuff ! I work with silver and this tutorial has given me some great ideas!
Frances Winyard I'm so glad that the video inspired you to use texture on your silver pieces. Thanks for watching! : )
Way cool! I love how you used the scouring pad and spiral to get texture. I really need to start working with sheet metal. I've been putting it off for too long!
padali29 Well, if you work primarily in wax, you can still use these same ideas to create textured surfaces on your waxes. Instead of striking the tools and materials with a hammer, you can warm them up and push them into your wax. I hope that this gives you some ideas. Thanks for watching! : )
I saw this and thought this is nice but probably not new. Well color me wrong. Once again, great ideas. Thank you!
Dharlee Minter Glad to learn that you were pleasantly surprised. The OJA posts new videos every week. If you subscribe to our channel you will receive update notifications. Thanks for watching! : )
OnlineJewelryAcademy Been a subscriber since the beginning. :)
John, im not a stupid man, but i swear i never thought about the wire technique u used, thanks for that, I will try it out. Good man.
I'm glad that I could inspire you to try something new.
Thanks for your support! : )
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much!
Hi Monica, I'm so glad that you enjoyed the video. Personally, I love textured metal surfaces.
Thanks for your support! : )
beautiful idea....thank you,so much.....:):)
Kremena Venkova I'm glad that you found the video inspiring. Thanks for watching! : )
OnlineJewelryAcademy ....have a beautiful night....:):)
Make a sampler - Great idea! TFS
Glad you liked the video. BTW, I always have one inch coppers squares at the ready to make a little sample of any new finish or texture that I'm working with. Not all of them are winners. But, these samples provide me with a great reference resource.
Thanks for your support! : )
Does anyone know what object(s) would make the kind of marks shown @ 1:50 in the vid? thanks
I used a cross-peen hammer to make that pattern. 😀
Thank you, professor!! 😄
Glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching! 😀
The best teaching!
Thank you for the compliment. I always say that I try to be the teacher that I wish I had when I first started making jewelry. 😀
@@OnlineJewelryAcademy You teach straight and clear.
I love your videos and thank you for all of the work you put into them!
Can you please tell me how achieved a certain texture? At :57 on the 8 square sheet, it’s 2nd from the left, lower level. It looks like circles in circles of different sizes and shapes surrounded by tiny dots. The centers of your larger circles look puffed back out but I didn’t see anything on the opposite side when you flipped that sheet. And some are oval?
I was thinking tubing and tried it but it didn’t come out anywhere close to similar. Yours looks so organic!
Thanks again!
I’m glad to hear that you’re enjoying the OJA’s videos. The texture sample you mentioned was made using a large zero stamp, a smaller circle stamp and a center punch. I started with the largest stamp, using it randomly on the surface. The circle stamp was used next. Then I filled in the negative space with a center punch. Hope this helps. 😀
Hum! very good idea! may be I can use this texture sample for polymer clay...TY again, dear professor! :o)
Francine Deneault Yes! You can definitely apply the idea of creating a texture sample to polymer clay or wax. Instead of hammering items against the materials, you simply give them a gentle push. Thanks for watching! : )
Fantastic and simple
Can You make a video for safety tips for propper anieling? For example pipe process and anieling safety. Like talk what you never should aniele( pipe with closed ends(flattened down) - will itt blow up or not under torch?
The OJA has videos that cover this information in its playlist. If you look at the OJA website at: www.onlinejewelryacademy.com, you'll find videos that specifically address annealing concerns. And, in videos about making hollow forms, you'll find information addressing the possibility of explosion when you heat closed forms. : )
What tool is used to make the bark looking texture and the one above it at .59 timestamp, on the far right of the plate?
I hammered a steel pot scrubber with a hammer directly against the copper surface to create the bark texture. The other one you asked about was made by directly striking the surface with a textured metal “shrinking” hammer used in auto body repairs. Thanks for watching! 😀
@@OnlineJewelryAcademy Gobsmacked. Thank you.
Great video, how can I get/create sampler ?
You'll need an annealed piece of copper and a variety of texturing tools including stamps and hammers. Draw boundary lines on your metal and just start creating isolated textures in each of the squares on your piece of sheet metal. If you don't like being so constricted to one small area, you can create separate sheets for each texture.
Thanks for your support! : )
Good info---THANKS!!
Kathy Spiers Glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for watching! : )
Awesome!
Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching! 😀
❤thank you a lot❤
Glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching! 😀
can we purchase these anywhere in the US?
The copper texture sampler is something that you have to make yourself. It's basically a record of the various types of textures that you can make with the tools in your studio. Try making one. It's fun.
Thanks for your support! : )
Anyone know what gauge the metal sheet is?
Hi Charley, The texture sampler can be made on any gauge of well annealed sheet copper. I find it best to make texture samples on the gauges that you normally use in your work. The sample shown in the photo was made using 16 gauge sheet copper.
Thanks for your support! : )
Thank you!
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching! 😀
....and anyone know where I can order/get sterling Silver for a good price? I don't want to end up getting something that is not SS!
The OJA does not give free advertising to vendors. We suggest that you search online for the products that you need and do some comparative shopping for the best price. Be sure to read reviews from others to see what they think about the services and products that they've received. Good luck with your creative pursuits.
Thanks for your support! : )
I should have watched this and the next video before I started working on a domed textured piece. lol
I can’t argue with you there. Thanks for watching! 😀
@@OnlineJewelryAcademy Rescued it thanks. Will look first next time : )