Thank you Susan for sharing so much knowledge!! You’ve really influenced my life!! I wish I could have gone on that Morocco trip!! One day I will travel with your group!!
I have all your books since they first came out.❤ I am Native American (Creek) and cajun…so LOVE doing jewels about the bayous. My main problem is that I actually have fear of fire so haven’t been able to do jewels required with a torch. Could be because I am an Aquarian.
I love that you know your fears! What if it was a fear from a. Past life or a fear from when you were young. We hold all of this. I do a lot of work of handing it over. Before you go to bed at night ask to get to the root of this fear. Sometimes, you face a little hard emotional stuff and sometimes it’s easy. After that you may be able to move forward with a torch if you still want too
Hello, thank you very much for your videos. How can we remove the fire scale and fire stain that appear on a piece? After welding a ring and using different sandpapers and polishing and mirror polishing, these dark areas appear. What can I do to eliminate them and prevent them from occurring? Thank you very much for your help.
I know what type of stain that you are talking about. It is not firescale but literally a rosy stain from over firing. It doesn’t happen often. You could try sanding a little more. Use this experience to teach you what not to do next time ❤️ Happens to us all
I have 4 feet square in a damp shed but I am so happy when I am having a day where I’m well enough to be in there for even half an hour. You almost said the word Repousse & stopped yourself. Why? I have a question. I want to make some lens shape pieces, so not spherical - round but more flattered. I can get the bottom half right by making the shape in my block but the top obviously balls up more. I am thinking of making a punch the right shape to mould it while melted but can see this might be a bit hit and miss. Is there any other way apart from sand casting them? I want them to be about 1cm round. I am planning to flush set stones in them.
That all sounds amazing ! And good for you following your heart and intuition. It is hard for me to understand a physical technique in a comment but I want you to not hate I have a membership where I have time to answer questions and work with people on silversmithing. In October I start a platform where we all can work side by side virtually. You can find the membership link in my profile. I hope to see you there! It is only $24.99 a month and you get creative promos and silversmithing techniques etc. you should check it out
i understand symbolizing your roots, where your family is from and all that...BUT, if you are born here, you are AMERICAN first!...so, i feel that as a fellow American, that is not being recognized or is being ignored as a culture and why isn't that represented in jewelry?
Good point and mine exactly! Lately, I have been researching my roots but for me I did exactly that . I came back from traveling and I thought - I am American and what are my talismans here. I have a powerful body of work of my personal talismans as an American that went to the Smithsonian, art institute in New York, Renwick museum and more. I’ll do a film on that work soon. And the sticks film from last week is American talismans
Thank you Susan for sharing so much knowledge!! You’ve really influenced my life!! I wish I could have gone on that Morocco trip!! One day I will travel with your group!!
Awwww and you are welcome!
We had an amazing magical time.
The next trip to Morocco is October 2025
Maybe …
At around 30 minutes you say OK this is a disaster. I wept. I surely say that at some point on every project. Such joy to hear it from you. Kent
Hey there again! So glad to see you here.
wonderful, inspired and excited to do my version of this. Thank you for this lesson.
Oh my gosh, perfect and I love that you are doing your own inspirational version. Always the best version 🩷
Oh my gosh, perfect and I love that you are doing your own inspirational version. Always the best version 🩷
That little white piece of coral is actually a small barnacle.
Thank you! I wondered
I have all your books since they first came out.❤ I am Native American (Creek) and cajun…so LOVE doing jewels about the bayous. My main problem is that I actually have fear of fire so haven’t been able to do jewels required with a torch. Could be because I am an Aquarian.
I love that you know your fears! What if it was a fear from a. Past life or a fear from when you were young. We hold all of this.
I do a lot of work of handing it over. Before you go to bed at night ask to get to the root of this fear.
Sometimes, you face a little hard emotional stuff and sometimes it’s easy.
After that you may be able to move forward with a torch if you still want too
Hello, thank you very much for your videos. How can we remove the fire scale and fire stain that appear on a piece? After welding a ring and using different sandpapers and polishing and mirror polishing, these dark areas appear. What can I do to eliminate them and prevent them from occurring?
Thank you very much for your help.
I know what type of stain that you are talking about. It is not firescale but literally a rosy stain from over firing. It doesn’t happen often.
You could try sanding a little more. Use this experience to teach you what not to do next time ❤️
Happens to us all
I have 4 feet square in a damp shed but I am so happy when I am having a day where I’m well enough to be in there for even half an hour.
You almost said the word Repousse & stopped yourself. Why?
I have a question. I want to make some lens shape pieces, so not spherical - round but more flattered. I can get the bottom half right by making the shape in my block but the top obviously balls up more. I am thinking of making a punch the right shape to mould it while melted but can see this might be a bit hit and miss. Is there any other way apart from sand casting them? I want them to be about 1cm round. I am planning to flush set stones in them.
That all sounds amazing ! And good for you following your heart and intuition.
It is hard for me to understand a physical technique in a comment but I want you to not hate I have a membership where I have time to answer questions and work with people on silversmithing. In October I start a platform where we all can work side by side virtually.
You can find the membership link in my profile. I hope to see you there! It is only $24.99 a month and you get creative promos and silversmithing techniques etc.
you should check it out
I will check it out. Thank you!
i understand symbolizing your roots, where your family is from and all that...BUT, if you are born here, you are AMERICAN first!...so, i feel that as a fellow American, that is not being recognized or is being ignored as a culture and why isn't that represented in jewelry?
Good point and mine exactly! Lately, I have been researching my roots but for me I did exactly that . I came back from traveling and I thought - I am American and what are my talismans here. I have a powerful body of work of my personal talismans as an American that went to the Smithsonian, art institute in New York, Renwick museum and more. I’ll do a film on that work soon.
And the sticks film from last week is American talismans