A new hobby

Or something like that.
I've started smithing. It's quite fun, and it feels like something I wanna keep up.

I'm going to publish some pictures and work in progress here. My first works are two brooches. 

First try at a figurative brooch, it's copperplate on top of a piece of steel. I liked the cave-manish look of it and decided to make it rather rough and unpolished overall.

Another one, this one is made from a sketch I made, inspired by a hand. It was supposed to be a flat plate of silver. But it decided against that and changed to this form. I couldn't fight the idea.

And then I decided to put a stone in it. I made the socket and was then about to polish it. I was given a polisher that reminded me of a pencil. And then decided to draw on it instead of making it glossy. Turned out pretty nice.

And here is the finished one. I made the edges darker with oxide. And then added some sprinkles of silver in the dark with a file?

This will be a blog for me to keep track of my own progress as well as inspirational links and thoughts of smithing. Feel free to comment!