{"id":4703,"date":"2018-11-19T13:48:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T20:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorigreenberg.com\/blog\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2022-04-13T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T04:13:09","slug":"a-walk-down-silver-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorigreenberg.com\/blog\/a-walk-down-silver-memory-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk Down Silver Memory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was thinking back about my journey in silversmithing and went looking for photos of early work. I was very surprised that my first silver jewelry piece<\/a> was thirteen years ago. I thought it had only been about 5 years.<\/p>\n

\"\"That was one of my Monet beads. At that time I decided that silver wasn’t for me. It didn’t come as easily as the glass did and I didn’t really have time to take on the amount of hours necessary to get up to speed because I had to keep selling beads.<\/p>\n

I tried a few more pieces and then hung up my metal tools for a while. Five years later I visited my friend Chris in Wisconsin to help her with a class at the Bead & Button Show. After the show she gave me some pointers and when I got home I picked up the Little Torch again. This time I went a little crazy and tried to set into silver everything I could find in the studio.<\/p>\n

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I was having a lot of fun but I felt that something was missing. Mainly, it was my skill that was missing but, I kept at it and tried a few more.<\/p>\n

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Pretty ragged lookin, but that is how you get better.<\/p>\n

This was the little area when I played with metal back then:
\n\"\"You really don’t need a big space to get it done, and it suited me just fine. Since that time I’ve upgraded the studio, a lot. As in, we built on another addition, and I got an official jewelry bench. I still use a lot of the same tools with which I started. The original plan for the new studio space was to be for additional torch stations, my jewelry bench, and maybe some woodworking equipment.<\/p>\n

Guess where my jewelry bench ultimately ended up?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Right back in my old glass studio. I love how I can rotate my chair to access soldering and polishing equipment however I do feel a little boxed in. I’ve been brainstorming how I can feng shui it but the room dimensions are posing a challenge so I’m trying to get used to it. (you can click on these last two pictures to see a larger view).<\/p>\n

I’ve since gotten rid of all of my glass and most of my glass tools and transformed the former torch station into a lapidary lab.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’ll continue this little walk down silver memory lane in my next post, and show you how my work has gotten to where I am now and a little bit about where I want to go with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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