Poundings

A friend made 3 chasing tools for me
with which I made the RedHerrings and other "poundings"
from left over aluminum flashing.
Technically, it's chasing and repousse...
but, what I do, doesn't hold a candle to the skill of the official chasers and repoussers.

A couple days a week, jewelry artist Maya Madden...
has been trying to teach me how to be an extra couple hands for her...
teaching me some things about metal....
fine silver actually...
that's what Maya likes.


I bought a set of small tools from Rene Bluhm on ebay.
Today I started playing with them.

could I do that again?

...and...I couldn't help it...had to see it........

...TheReligionator...which wound up with a much deeper relief than the scanner can deal with....
again, I've no idea what I'm going to be doing with these...
at least I've gotten them out of my system.