{"id":314,"date":"2010-03-05T19:51:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T08:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2010-03-05T19:53:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T08:53:20","slug":"making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/colourful-star-721.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-313\" title=\"Colourful Star \" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/colourful-star-721.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/03\/colourful-star-721.png 425w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/03\/colourful-star-721-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/melissacameron.net-blogcontentau\/uploads\/2010\/03\/colourful-star-721-300x299.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally some output from the new studio. Following the Helen Britton guide to brooch-backs, I&#8217;ve given this baby a double pin. For my work it&#8217;s a pretty heavy piece, so it needed it. It&#8217;s 86mm in diameter at the points.<\/p>\n<p>The colouring was fun; I didn&#8217;t expect my gas-only torch to be up for the job, but I guess that&#8217;s the difference between a dedicated source of compressed gas and a multi-torch setup. I hadn&#8217;t planned a colour scheme before-hand and found that getting consistent colours was really easy, so I went up the steel-heating-spectrum and then had a play when I reached the end.<\/p>\n<p>As for the texture, I tried sandblasting with the glass beads first. While they gave a lovely finish, they didn&#8217;t get rid of all the soldering muck and discolouration, so I had to go back to a heavier grit to clean up the joins. I stuck with the aluminium oxide it for the whole piece in the end, but I might try a two step process next time, since the more shiny finish did look appealing to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa make a piece of jewellery! A brooch, in fact. She is very impressed with her efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,10],"tags":[20,4,18,12],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewellery","category-studio","tag-brooch","tag-jewellery","tag-process","tag-sandblasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}