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Published: 2007-03-30 10:38:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 1043; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 1
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Reticulated sterling silver. Design based on a stylized leaf. I highly recommend the reticulation process...it's a lot of fun when it works properly!Related content
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On one of my pieces I used reticulated gold, and it is a fantastic medium I agree, if you can get it to work. It accented the niobium I used.
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Not the best picture though
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I think that's what I like about it, the unpredictability!
Nice gallery btw
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well, reticulation is a lot of fun on silver anyway 
but these are fantastic!
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LOL! Never tried it on copper but I can certainly believe that
Thanks!
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It's actually very fun, even when you make holes
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...and now they're back, weird!
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Thanks!
It's a texturing process where you bring all the pure metal to the surface by heating it to almost melting point. You then push the liquid metal around with your blow torch creating various ridges and ripples....or melting it completely as sometimes happens!
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I must try that. I've done all of my texturing by either peening or hammering against a rough metal plate. A textured surface looks so good under glass enamel & a reticulated surface would give a new effect. Thanks for the education.
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Definitely, and post the result when you've tried it!
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Those are beautiful! Elegant yet funky, totally my sort of thing.
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