I have recently been trying out some new techniques including rose caning (see my previous post) and ‘proper’ mokume gane. The results were quite nice and today I finished off the pendants I’d made last week.
The steps involved are quite lengthy. For anything involving a cane the steps include
Skinner blending
Creating the cane
Slicing the and creating the pendant/beads
Baking the clay
Sanding (with 4 grades of sandpaper)
Buffing off the white film
Dipping in Polish and allowing to dry
Rebaking to set the polish
The Mokume Gane is similar except that I created a flat layer of mokume gane first before shaping into beads.
Here are some of the results followed by the sanded beads/pendants after dipping and before rebaking. They are sitting on my homemade drying rack:
All of these will be for sale very soon in my stores. ALL PROFITS from ALL SALES still go to the work of SIM at Camp La Joya in Peru.
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