2018-07-18 11:56
This is my latest invention that I made. That's why I lay claim to the word makvention.Anyway, I wish I had thought this out a LOT earlier in my jewelry career.I sell it as a kit for $280 he… Read More
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2018-07-10 08:47
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2017-01-02 09:20
My previous project was the Dragonfly Fighter which took 900 hours to complete. It was a commision from the Jurassic Insect community in their war against the Dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are… Read More
2016-12-04 08:35
This jewelry tutorial video shows a trick of how to drill an accurate straight hole in metal. The more accurate your drilling the more neat the eventual gemstone setting will be. With thi… Read More
2016-11-30 09:04
I needed a kind of cats eye or maybe a reptile eye, so I take some borosilicate glass rod and melt the ends into a bulb of about 10 mm. Like this I cut the dome off with a diamo… Read More
2016-09-11 07:27
The finished product. First I select the material. A piece of Brazilian amethyst and a piece of Zimbabwean aquamarine. Then I carve them into two shapes that are mirror images. I only… Read More
2016-08-18 10:07
I stared a new project tentatively called the Triceratops machine I base the idea on the original model made some 68 million year ago. This is a skeleton in the Los Angeles Natural Histor… Read More
2016-06-07 10:39
I decided to fire colour my wings. So I make a fire and then heat the wing red hot and quench them into a bucket of cold water. It takes many attempts until nice pattern is achieved.  &hellip…Read More
2016-05-26 10:04
I re worked the fittings where the legs are attached and then I made some boots for them with six arms. I bent the boots into a sort of jelly fish form, simply because I like the shape. … Read More
2016-04-16 16:50
Then I made a cover for the joystick. I took a hex bolt and then formed to copper over it until I got a shape like that. The feet will still be worked and engraved on furthe… Read More
2016-03-27 09:50
So cut a whole lot of slats out on the top. Gotta be brutal with your own designs. Then I cut the glass for the cockpit. I use 1.2 mm glass taken from a picture frame. Good source of… Read More
2016-03-18 09:01
The edinburgh etch was invented by Friedhard Kiekeben and here is a bigger description of the process Basically it consists of 4 parts ferric chloride solution and 1 part citri… Read More
2016-03-14 09:12
A simple way to turn a rubber wheel mandrel into an adapter for different drill and burr sizes. Every now and then I have to drill a long hole through something with my hangin… Read More
2016-02-29 13:08
One of my big bugbears in jewellery making was wire ingots. As if heating this big bar of pig iron up to temperature and then using a cigarette butt an stopper wasn't bad eno… Read More
2016-02-22 09:45
So then I went on to the probably the most difficult and fun part of this model--the cabin and it's inside. I made a rough plasticine and wire model to get the so so size of the chai… Read More
2016-02-08 09:49
The eyes...the all important eyes. First see what some transparent viscous enamel looks like on a domed silver cup. Nyet, I didn't like it. Titanium domed cup with some heat… Read More
2016-01-27 09:02
Gauge. This is the control interface that goes to the head. I made it up to final finish because I won’t be modifying it further. It plugs into the back of the h… Read More
2016-01-20 13:40
Anyway I didn’t like the claws so I carved and cast some new front legs. They were also kak. So I carved another front leg and when I stuck it on, it looked too organic… Read More
2016-01-10 20:55
I really battled to get the rear legs like I like them I had one chance to get the solder right. So I set it up instu and solder them Gauge. Then I made the… Read More
2015-12-19 09:22
I cut all the leg attachments off and made 2 mm sides on it. The bottom body structure, made from different 1 mm brass panels. The reason it looks red is because of the copper platin… Read More
2015-12-06 09:40
The wings will be finished off at the top and the bottom with the brass edging. I will rivet them on later. Making the body. I used an egg to get the measurements of the panels. I f… Read More
2015-11-30 10:57
The workshop is set up. The lathe and stuff on the other side. It’s got nice big doors ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I was g… Read More
2015-11-27 12:36
Anne working on a computer. The big black rectangle is not a door, but the back side of her mirror. Dude, this thing big and heavy like nobodies business. This was the work shop room… Read More
2015-11-22 16:46
We rented a “ Oom Jan built this place!” type of cottage. You know, the type that everything functions despite the plans coming off the back of a serviette. The washing m… Read More
2015-11-11 21:05
We needed to move out of Dusseldorf and change our business plan. After four years we were not going forward. So the first thing was to find a new place in NL. That is not easy and w… Read More
2015-11-06 12:53
We just finished moving the workshop from Germany to the Netherlands. So that meant that I had to tune my workbench in more finely, because at my old workshop, I had my roller and vic… Read More
2015-09-12 06:59
My second mobile bench. Full of hippy paintings. It was destroyed in a fire. If you want to see more of it click here. I have moved a lot in my life and I got tired of building a new… Read More
2015-09-08 07:21
Rotary Burnishing Tools are used in various metalsmithing applications to smooth out and cover up porosity holes in metal. These burnishing tools are used and form part of the… Read More
2015-07-28 11:04
Iffy Something was making my roller difficult to turn. The handle wouldn't fall down if you let it go. It was as if a bush was binding, so I decided to service it. This rolle… Read More
2015-07-20 11:05
Here is my version of a ring in a ring. I engraved the top and sides to make it more interesting visually. There is another ring in the outside ring. The inner ring is made out of a 2… Read More
2015-07-04 10:17
Recently I received an order for a pair of four claw ear studs made out of titanium. I often get requests via the internet to make custom orders in titanium. This ties in nicely with… Read More
2015-05-10 09:52
I made a piston ring, The crankshaft was quite tricky, I made it four times before I got it right. I also made the ‘piston’ twice. I turned it out of titanium. Then I pi… Read More
2015-03-30 07:06
A customer wanted this ring changed . She didn’t like the ruby anymore. Open heart surgery. I didn't actually know whether it would work, but I figured that if I totall… Read More
2015-03-16 08:54
A goldsmith buddy of mine gave me a stick of this polish the other day. I always like trying out new products. Especially polish, because no matter how well you finish off a piece o… Read More
2015-02-02 10:57
I made a riveting helper. Very simple, just a 6mm steel rod filed to a point and with a cup indentation made into it with a 2 mm ball frazer. Close up. I also polished… Read More
2015-01-20 12:27
When ever I have some round stones to set in tubes, especially many small ones, I use my concave punches to do so. This is a method of setting round stones requires a bit of practice… Read More
2015-01-08 18:28
This post, to correlate the journey of making her. When ever I start a big project like this, I am always reckless at the beginning. The reason is that it’s easy to start over… Read More
2015-01-05 18:45
One of the biggest problems that I have in making multi metal sculpture is tarnishing and scratching. I have tried many different surface coatings, from varnish to lacquers to two com… Read More
2014-12-25 13:49
I set 32 2mm garnets in silver tubes and then set those silver tubes into the tail Now I am going to engrave scales on the yellow part and the there come little silver spines into… Read More
2014-12-19 07:44
I got the body pretty finished . I just have to do some minor things and maybe make the wings matt. The wings look relatively simple, but they were one of the more difficult things I h… Read More
2014-11-30 11:57
Planning the wings. I decided to do the inside of the wings first, It’s tricky work, what with the balance and all. That was sort of the basic attitude I wanted the wi… Read More
2014-11-17 09:12
To make the tail I had to take all the off cuts of wax and melt then into a pot so I got a big fat chunk. Once it was cool I cut an oversize tail out of it and started carving. Until I… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I had to make a ring the same as the one next to it. Since that fat pig Santa Claus did not bring me a laser welder this Christmas, even though I sent him a list of both of… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Yesterday we climbed into Arnold, our Renault jalopy and got ourselves to TEFAF in Maastricht. This is the second year we have gone there. Last year it was brutally cold, but this… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I got an order to make a rather unusual ring. It’s modeled on a game called Zelda and had to have some specific design elements in it. The curls, the vines all of it. First, the c… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Today was such a brilliant day. We had to go get the car’s oil changed this morning. Real slick operation ( pun) with TV screens that let you see what&rsquo&hell…Read More
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