Brass pendant of a bird on a branch
A simple little landscape (treescape?) made by hand from a brass plate, cut with a saw.
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Gorgeous, well done!
Nice! I can only imagine how nerve wracking it would be to cut out those fine branches
Yes, they have the lovely tendency of trying to bend instead of cut, it can be stressful
Brass pendant of a bird on a branch while a human butt slowly lowers from the top, all seen through a telescope.
Now that's some acrobatics
You make the most beautiful things.
Thank you, I don't think I make anything amazing but I appreciate the compliment!
That's some amazing detail work.
Do you have any in-progress photos? Did you have some little jewellery files as well, or do you have a magical super-tiny saw? I'm kind of fascinated by the process.
I don't have any, but I have some of an old craft that I made as training from pretty long ago. I plan on making a video showing the process of crafting, but it's not done yet...
(Don't pay attention to the pattern, I just took it online to train myself on a design with a lot of holes)
First I print the pattern, glue it on the metal and drill a hole in each hole of the design
I put the blade of the saw through each hole to cut it along the pattern (this shows the back to make it more visible bur I just saw along the lines of the print, I don't do it blindly)
Finally I remove the paper and polish the craft with mainly small brushes on a rotary tool
I have small files, but most of the shape is just cut with a blade, that is indeed a bit of a magical super tiny one :') The blade is extremely thin, which helps for details but make it very prone to breaking, that's why you need to be rather gentle while working with it. But they also come in packs of over 100 of them, which helps :p
That's really interesting - thank you :)
The handmade nature really emphasises your skill and control, especially following all those small curves with some sort of fretsaw/coping saw.
Thanks for sharing these :)
It definitely is easier than it looks, the only hard part is to manage the blade to not break it, and you just learn it over time. A funny thing that I found surprising at the beginning was reading that to know if the blade is having proper tension, you flick it and listen to the noise it makes, a bit like a musical instrument; it sounded absurd at first, but now I'm able to get a sense of how much tension there is by doing it. It's still nothing amazing, it just gets a bit of time to learn it "instinctively", but I find it funny ^^