Color gold inlays with Ron Smith

to get certain alloy materials to work with like some of my colored inlays I had to mix into my own proportions so the carrot is not so important but the malleability of the metal because it's work hardens pretty easy and you know that and so there's no regulations on that type of thing here but as far as making jewelry from it or selling it as jewelry then it has to have a proper carat yeah brother parrot there's you not the cheating people I know that probably there are a lot of people around online using the metals that I use to get the colors in the engraving because they're not precious metals and I've been kind of criticized for that but I didn't do it for for the value of the metals I did it for the impact of the colors and and as you've seen on maybe you've seen they almost look like paintings rather than then I may so that's why I did it because I could see I just got this idea that you could get colors into inlaid into steel to where you can do painting like pictures and that's been experimented with over the years by a lot of drivers but I think one of the last generation masters messed around with enamels and all kinds things different colors engraving and but I don't think it was real successful but anyway that's just incredible I never we never used this different colors of gold and I'm thinking about using that but they never use well I don't think I've seen anybody do that until I started now I've seen the English use different colors and sculpted gold and Frank Hendrix had done some he had done some in ladies in steel with stealing lace but steel with the copper back in late lay it into steel and then he'd done some multicolored go green and yellow and pink gold together to make little flowers and things with different colors which that seemed that before but it occurred to me that I'd never seen anybody do it on flat plain so that's what gave me the idea and after I started I had very many people try it since then there's a few that are doing well with it but you don't see many people doing it and it takes different little different techniques and just inlay in 24 karat gold because it works hard and really eating you have to get your understanding where it'll hold yeah and did you in lay a goal to using the wire Oh both well I've done both I prefer to use the wire because depends alike now if you're doing geometric designs it'll be better to use a sheet yeah when you're doing odd shaped cavities then it's pretty hard to saw something accurate enough to get those not that you you could do you saw him this is all right out yeah I know a so yeah I cut with the sealants early yes and with an exact well I can say if you're doing geometric shapes those are easy to do yeah but this is earlier or whatever but you know then I see really animals face or something it's got all kinds of appendages and things sticking out you gotta have to follow those contours unless unless you do it with wire then you can do it with wire but like it's like it takes a different Ronnie on a Liberty knife you can see that it's not just geometric lines with it yeah that's true yeah and they're on this flame well these aren't drastic enough variations that you can't push the go into the yeah I I get corner cutting pieces are you pieces like like this here Oh focus and then they meld together and conquer man that's a good thing about 24-karat and moving around quite easily yeah that's a fantastic piece thank you them a little piece of parole in later that's cool that's what I said when I saw it huh that's what I said when I saw it yesterday yeah I hadn't noticed it in the photographs the pillar yeah three of it you know what are these little stones in here is that this is a rubies rubies yeah yeah I thought they were a garden in their thirties and the pink color gold in the flame Rose rose rose gold yes I just used this like a different color yeah well when you start thinking when you start thinking along those lines of using colored metals to create scenes you start getting all kinds of different ideas of what you can do with it I mean you know like once you start thinking along those lines you get to see and like you'll see in a picture or something what would look good in the gold and then have a red cap or you know however you want to set it up to to make it look good it's it's pretty inspirational and the detailing this was just outstanding that you even got looks like you've even got a pupil in the eyeball and what are these little diamonds yeah yeah diamonds there and torch well in the crown and time and civic intervenes right well do people even see that does he even see the stones in there when you when you look at this what I like garlic dips I can't see those with my naked eye my glasses are they way too small yes they are Oh point seven I think this guy's so the points over here the bigger stones yeah that's fantastic thank you not particularly for some reason I particularly like this these two shades right here together on the same surface not one not one raised above the oh yeah I said building they're like this site right and that's and that appeals to me first I don't know why but now see I use this technique right here very similar technique to to putting two sides to a flower in a scroll or a leaf of a stroller I'll have it yeah and you can see that some of the books where you do one side of the flower and then you have inside of the flower coming out from the outside of the flower do do one color or the inside and one color for the outside that's why that appeal to me because I've used that same technique and it's very attractive to use it not only with just doing it flat but shade lines then to give it dimension you know yeah that's beautiful thank you I'm pretty impressed the boys Got Talent I think he does he might end up being a great one these days that's beautiful the beautiful work thank you it is no doubt thank you well you blew me away Oh Mike asked me to write something about this knife collaboration that he did with Tom over-under for the art knife Invitational book and it was published there and then also in the blade magazine that was expanded on little bit so I'll read what I wrote every knife tells a story but some stories are more fabulous and incredible than others this issue's cover knife Lady Liberty by Tom over Islander crosses two continents two political spectrums three artists and many decades born in 1949 in the capital of Armenia army artist apollyon lived in Russia from 1951 to 2000 at which time he and his wife spent long immigrated to the US as a young Russian master sculptor and tool and die maker he was fascinated by the architectural design of American skyscrapers in particular the Chrysler Building in Manhattan but he never imagined that he would visit it someday as an American citizen even more iconic for someone raised in the Soviet Union was another New York City landmark Lady Liberty on Ellis Island in Russia simply seen pictures of the Statue with the seven radiating points of her crowded flowing roads was a secretly held inspiration of Army Hawks that someday he might be free as well in that faraway land decades later he would visit New York as a full-fledged American citizen and the icons would be more than inspiration for him as the subjects for his engraving on over-under spectacular folder that presents also the precious stone settings by Bill Cronin you

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Length: 10min 38sec (638 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 19 2018