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How to make a sculpture out of coins...? part2
After posting here and receiving loads of usefull info i'm at it again
asking for more info about silver soldering. The project i'm working on involves making a pair of lifesize hands out of euro coins. I initally was going to cast straight to bronze as this is just a small part of another sculpture which is made of wood....but now i'm going to try this. So far i'm thinking of making the fingers out of cylinders of coins drilled and threaded with wire and soldered together. These will attach and extend to the flat hand part which will be filled in and then on to the wrist which will be made from two cylinders. So I'll have five wires with coins threaded on going to 2 wires for wrist. After advice from previous post i think i will silver solder the coins together. I have 6 months experience as a jewler so am no a complete newbie but am quite rusty. Heres my list of Whats...? What to fill in the big gaps with...maybe some metal poxy....? What silver solder torch...? I think it should be bigger than the small pen ones as the end sculpture will be quite big and will need loads of heat.....am i right there...? What type of silver solder....flat plate, wire...? what strength....hard i suppose....? What wire for wireframe structure....? Many thanks to all who helped me out so far.... |
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