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DIY water tank dropper for rotary tool

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     With electroforming, I use a lot of gemstones. I buy them already cut and polished or rough. Sometimes they need to be adapted to the project that I'm doing and, especially, the rough ones, need to be cut. Cutting stones is relatively easy, but inconvenient because of all the dust they produce during the process. Breathing silica dust or other kind of mineral's is not good for your health. Using a mask could be a solution, but the result, in the long-term, will be a lab cover with a layer of dust even if you clean every day, and you don't want it in your electroforming bath. The best solution that every gemstone worker knows is WATER. Water will prevent all the dust from flying everywhere, but I don't have all the machinery to work with stones, so I needed to do something cheap and fast. Since I already have a rotary tool with diamond discs, I decide to do some adaptation to it.  Tools I used in this project: Rotary tool Diamond cutting wheel Marker Knife a sha...

The resurrected Bird

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    I had this bird Skull laying down somewhere in my lab for maybe 2 years. I finally decided to do something with it, hoping it was going to become something cool.  I called this project “The Resurrected Bird” because it was an unfinished (dead) project. When I found the skull, it was half covered with copper and conductive paint . It remembered me those times when I was not very good at electroforming, struggling to find the right mix for Conductive Paint and the way to adjust Electroforming Solution. Then I choose an Amethyst crystal to make it cool and a pair of feathers to give it wings and get it ready to fly again.  Materials and tools that I used for this project: a Bird Skull two bird feathers an Amethyst Crystal 2.5 mm copper wire (10awg) 0.6 mm cooper wire (22 awg) 401 Super Glue Relief Paint Apoxie Sculpt Modeling Compound Conductive Paint Acetone Cotton Swabs Electroforming Solution Distilled Water Liver of Sulfur Baking Soda jump rings a chain a lob...

The Poplar series - Earrings, a pendant, a ring and a bracelet made out of Poplar leaves.

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    In the late summer, I was wandering through the woods and I noticed that one species of tree was starting to lose its leaves. For me, that was an interesting thing. The fascinating thing was that those leaves were heart shaped. That gave me a reason to collect some and bring them home to make something out of them. A month ago, I finally decided to create this set of jewels. I saw these small carnelian and blue agate cabochons and instantly thought they can be good together.   Here all the material I've used for this project: Poplar leaves Cabochons Copper wires of different diameters Toothpicks CA Glue Silver paint marker UV Resin Acetone Pickling solution Conductive Paint E6000 Glue Relief paint Electroforming Solution Liver of Sulfur Baking Soda Distilled Water Jewelry hardware and all the tools: Nippers UV lamp Ball peen hammer Rubber hammer DIY texturing hammer Anvil File V Slot bench Gas Torch Heatproof surface Round nose pliers Flat nose pliers Scissors Cloth...