Making a silver charm

Finally have time to update my blog again, I wanted to write about the silver charm taster class I did with my friend just before Christmas at +London Jewellery School It was so fun and worthwhile, definitely inspired me if I should do jewellery making class some day. 

Me and my friend was so surprised how professional the product was at the end despite the whole class only lasted 2.5 hours! The tutor was very good that she made sure she checked our product before we rushed off. 

So we we were given 20minutes to design the charm first, then we drew it on with paper and marks it with a marking tool. Then we were ready to saw it out of this little silver square plate. After that we smouldered it so it's malleable. And then we are ready to mould it how we want. I milled a pattern on with some pretty brass bits as well as hammering all over it to give it an organic look. Then we filed down the sharp edges and saw cuts. Finally we polished it so it's real shiny! 

The course was great however I wish we had more time on planning and experimenting but for it being £22 and 2.5 hours to achieve such great results is amazing!