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The Art of Metalsmithing Exposed
Sterling Wedding Goblets
#02 My inspiration piece was the original Jefferson Cup designed and produced by John Letelier of Richmond, Virginia.
#03 Design sketch.
#04 Design sketch.
#05 Sterling metal order.
#06 Sterling sheet metal 12" by 6" 18 gauge
#07 Sheet sterling scribed and center punched to find center
#08 Green Lion jewelers saw.
#09 Two discs cut out with jewelers saw.
#10 Two discs rough cut.
#11 Filing disc edges.
#12 …more filing.
#13 Command Central.
#14 My raising stump.
#15 My old raising stakes out of storage for surface polishing and refinishing
#16 Top view of raising stump
#17 Hammer rack
#18 …there are never enough hammers.
#19 Some of the antique hammers I bought from my instructor Judith Woodbury when she retired.
#20 Shallow hollow carved into my hardwood stump. I force the silver disc into it with a mushroom stake to form a shallow bowl to start.
#21 Polished mushroom stake used to force flat disc into shollow carved into stump to form the start of a bowl
#22 Heavier mushroom stake.
#23 Begining bowl form after sunk into stump with mushroom stake.
#24 Start of bowl forms.
#25 Bowl forms marked with concentric lines for hammer blows to follow when raising against raising stake.
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