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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

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