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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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