I made this piece a few years ago when I was hosting an open studio in the Mendocino Art Center jewelry studio. I was showing some beginning jewelers some thought on soldering wire and riveting layers of metal together using short pieces of 16 gauge wire. The wire shapes in the center are fine silver which bends very easily, the balls are argentium silver which fuses better than any metal I have tried fusing. The metal surrounding the silver wire is copper that has been heated to give it a colored oxide surface.
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