July 2006 HABA Houston Area Blacksmith's Association

Houston
Area
Blacksmith's
Association

7418 Branch Point
Houston, TX 77095-2649

To Preserve and Promote the Art and Craft of Blacksmithing Through Education.

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July 15, 2006

Cool Art (Forged Jewelry) for the Smith

HABA hosted HMAG members at its March meeting at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. This is HABA members’ opportunity to learn something about working with nonferrous metal. Forged jewelry and jewelry making predates the craft of blacksmithing by thousands of years.

The second half of our joint meeting with HMAG was Saturday July 15th, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the U of Houston (indoors, air-conditioned, hence COOL!) in the Fine Arts Building, Room 122. Specific details are on our page Forged Jewelry.

HMAG volunteers Rachel Clark and Chris Gormun demonstrated solder techniques and how to bezel set stones. We are also grateful to HMAG volunteers Nitza Manor, Gina Millunzi, Karin Martin, and Dottie Wood who provided the materials for the bezels and the cabochons and solder. They also added their special tips and methods for the basic soldering techniques and provided the handouts and materials to allow everyone to practice and take home their samples as well.

HMAG also showed us how to do the ferrous/non-ferrous soldering. Tee Hines brought a bag of well made carbon steel square nails with the head of the nail at least 1/2 " in diameter to accommodate the stone's bezel. We attached our bezels with set stones to the nail heads with silver solder.

The HMAG Demo Examples and Shop Tools at University of Houston

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