More Carvings
Feb. 15th, 2019 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laurieopalI just finished the wax carving of the phoenix I've been writing about. I'm really happy with it. The tail feathers are set with 2 purple sapphires and a diamond in the center feather. It's a Chinese phoenix.
And the opal below is being set in a Japanese landscape setting with a waterfall, I've been has been developing for quite a while. It's a magnificent stone.
Opal is about 1.5"
And the opal below is being set in a Japanese landscape setting with a waterfall, I've been has been developing for quite a while. It's a magnificent stone.
Opal is about 1.5"
I had a good day.
But last week I had the first casting failure in about 5 years on a carving with one of the silver pearls. (I put up their photo a while ago.) It was very disappointing but it was a design I was working on for my collection rather then a commission. And casting is an art not a science - so once in 5 years is really good.
Tomorrow I'll mostly be polishing.
