Round Stud with Stones

Round studs with stones, in available colors, 2022

Album – original, mold and cutter. NEED LINK The finished mold with the raised areas that create the hollow backs in the studs. This deeply three-dimensional, hollowed-out shape saves mass and material and permits the molten metal to solidify without ugly shrinkage in any thicker part of the casting. Making this sort of mold is a difficult and time-consuming process, which involves carefully fitting the pieces together many time. In the case of this mold, it was between fifty and a hundred times and it took two days.

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Pelican in Rondel Brooch

SCA “Society for Creative Anachronism” award awards peer peers  peerage medallion pendant badge regalia “Order of the Pelican” “Master of the Pelican” “Mistress of the Pelican”