Laser Engraved Butterflly wings

 Went on a hunt in my studio for some dichroic glass to make more wings 

some lovely red 

blue

silver teal

soldered and they turned ouT fabulous 

Laser engraved images on dichroic glass - First try

 Used my XTOOL Laser cutter to etch into dichroic glass .

My first  effort -  Painted the surface with black paint so that the laser did not reflect 

I was setting up my butterfly wing pattern and a mandala 

Was amazed with results but first tries were too deep (which totally surprised me ) 

I adjusted the depth and  tried again

once I got the  detail I wanted and depth I cut them  out and ground them down and then fired them 

then I did a copper  foil around edges and soldered them 

no patina

patina

Some new items - Christmas Wreaths

 some new Christmas Wreaths 

Fused Glass Wreaths 

Microscope soldered pendants

Microscope  solder pendants 

flying keys 

Stamped Solder

 Finishing up the pendants and the earrings. Cleaaned and dipped into Permalac EF  sealer then hung to dry  then assembled with copper jump rings and Niobium ear wires

18g copper solder stamped 

Brass solder stamped 

Permalac EF dip to seal

Microscope Slide Pendants

 I created prints that will fit the microscope slides Used copper foil tape to hold them together Flux is applied to the copper tape  then the solder is applied I added jump rings to top and bottom  You can patina or leave plain I added a crystal T fhe bottom 

Stamping Solder

 Clean your copper  or brass   and apply liquid flux  Melt a pool  of solder  and use a red stamp ( high temp rubber stamp) to press into the hot sold Wait a moment for it to harded and peel off stamp You can remove extra solder by jyst running the  solder tip around edges  Let cool  and then patina   

The itemsbeliw are either brass or copper  no patina yet 

Getting More Laser Cut Earrings prepped and packed

All colored ready for UV Resin coating

All coated in UV resin and set 

all asembled with niobium ear wires  and packaged