If you haven't noticed a thing or two yet...I have a thing for Egypt and Dragons. Mythology has always drawn my attention. The beasts and stories that people seem to worship as a higher being has always fascinated me. Some of the "gods and goddesses" are almost 3,000 years old and found in even older religions with the same title and diet.
I'm not going to get into the history of my favorite mythology. But, I'll explain the "modern" versions of my mythology items I have created that represents a mythology.
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The dragon enamel is something I created to represent the days of ad&d. It's a board game were you need to have humor and a sense of imagination since everything is played by dice rolls and card decks. It's another piece that is added to my dragon collection.
This design can be made again. It's copper based. It was cut, and filed, polished. The stiffing process of enamel was used several times to achieve the desired colors. The design can be made small enough to put on a necklace as a charm or pendant. Just about any colors can be placed on the enamel.
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It's an inspired theme from Ancient Egypt. If you haven't figured it out yet, I love egypt. This project has various methods in it, two major ones are casting and fabricated all 7 parts together.
The center piece, the body of the scarab was made from wax and used wax lost process. I spent 15 hours of carving, the body measures 2inches long. Everything else was cut by hand, filed, sanded, polished, and finally soldered. There are at least 15 soldering points. The body is solid silver, which means it takes longer for it to get hot then the legs. The body was extremely burnt on the surface by the time the legs were able to be soldered on with the bezel (which was the last step).
Like the egyptian scarab, it holds the sun on the top and the moon on the bottom. In this case, its a black opal representing the sun and the silver disc represents the moon. This project is not for sale. However, there is a bid on it that starts at $380.00.
It's all solid sterling silver and weights approx 45 pennyweights. Measures approx 3 and 1/2 inches long and 2 inches wide.
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The symbol of "Eye of Ra" from Ancient Egypt This was hand carved from a block of wax consisting of 15 hours. It's approx 35 pennyweights...its heavy. It's great for paperweight or a fancy desk decor especially if your into Egypt. I have made a successful mold to make a copy of the original design.