Handmade Silver Solar System Pendants (30 pics)

Posted in       14 Dec 2013       10501       2 GALLERY VIEW

This is a new version of the first solar system I made, but this time in all silver.
Crap, I forgot Uranus.

I had to pick the planets off, and rearrange them to make room for Uranus. I had Jupiter and Saturn in the wrong places too... I should stop working so late at night.

Soldering them back on.

Correct number of planets! (Or well, no. One too much, but I included Pluto. I like Pluto, okay?) This one is not sold yet, I made it just for fun.

Pluto and Charon.
Pluto doesn't spin around it's own axis, it spins around a point right outside itself.
This is how I start making them.
This is a doming set.
You have to work with them for a long time to get it a perfect circle, otherwise you end up with a ufo like this.

Now they are half spheres, and ready to be put together. Sorry for the ugly, dirty fingers, but you get like that when working.

I made them a bit bigger, with the intention of making a couple of really big solar systems, but figured out they would be too big. I'm making round lockets instead. This one is almost finished, and has little leaves on it.

Soldering.
About half finished.

This is my acid pickle, just a glass dish on the stove top. This is a very very shitty solution, and was only temporary. I use a crock pot.

It looks like this right out of the pickle. A white layer forms on the silver.
After brushing with a brass brush it looks like this.

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bob.james.5454021 10 year s ago
Awesome work...even the photos !
       
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darkraisin 10 year s ago
It is nice but it is not the solar system, at least not the one we know.
       
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