{"id":2292,"date":"2013-07-30T20:09:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T20:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2013-07-30T20:15:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T20:15:57","slug":"press-forming-adventures-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2292","title":{"rendered":"Press-Forming Adventures Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>Above are all of the hummingbird and owl press forming works I’ve been working on…an interesting ride, I must say.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Above is the completed silver hummingbird skull and titanium pendant, with leather neck cord.<\/p>\n

Available soon at\u00a0BladeGallery.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Below are images of a Hummingbird Medicine Pouch. \u00a0This one is for the August fundraising auction of my local knapping group (stone tool making). \u00a0All the ladies I’ve shown this one to have seemed to like it! \u00a0It’s made from copper, naturally shed elk and deer antler, and buckskin.<\/p>\n

By the way, you can find a complete (and free!) tutorial on making buckskin pouches just like these in my Resources section<\/a>. \u00a0Here’s a handy link to take you right to it! \u00a0Making Buckskin Pouches…<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nCopper press formed and chased skull, on carved naturally-shed elk antler. \u00a0I’ll tie the skull onto the antler with waxed linen thread.<\/p>\n

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\nThe first Hummingbird Skull pouch met with such aclaim that I had to do another to go to\u00a0BladeGallery.com \u00a0– available there soon<\/a>. \u00a0On this pouch, I’ve used a naturally-shed deer antler for the toggle catch, and carved a Northwest Native American-style orca on it.<\/p>\n

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Thanks for looking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Above are all of the hummingbird and owl press forming works I’ve been working on…an interesting ride, I must say. Above is the completed silver hummingbird skull and titanium pendant, with leather neck cord. Available soon at\u00a0BladeGallery.com Below are images … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,28,31,35,11],"tags":[9,3,7,17,16,44,10,26,12],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qLAy-AY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2273,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2273","url_meta":{"origin":2292,"position":0},"title":"Press-Forming Adventures Part 5","date":"July 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I'm working on making a pendant from the little silver hummingbird skull I press formed during our last visit. \u00a0I'm engraving a piece of Grade 2 titanium for the back of the pendant. \u00a0I'm hoping the gray color of the titanium will coordinate nicely with the bright silver color\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Hummingbird_Skull_Press_Form_17.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3960,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=3960","url_meta":{"origin":2292,"position":1},"title":"Hummingbird Skull with Silver Helmet Pendant","date":"July 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Starting a new press-formed hummingbird skull , this time with a twist. Here are several pressings, and carefully forging away the wrinkles in the copper sheet caused by the pressing. Here's the beginning of the twist - I'm upcycling a failed silver pressing (it cracked!) to become a helmet. Trimming\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carving"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Silver_Helmet_Hummingbird_Skull_8.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2361,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2361","url_meta":{"origin":2292,"position":2},"title":"Hummingbird Art Basket – More Adventures in Press Forming","date":"October 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another little art basket my wife and I collaborated on. \u00a0This little hummingbird basket is about three inches in diameter. The basket itself is made from ziricote (the rim and base) and is woven with waxed Irish linen. \u00a0The pyrographed lid is from an antique piece of old-growth cherry\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art Basket"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Hummingbird_Skull_Basket_web_2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2248,"url":"http:\/\/sterlingsculptures.com\/wp\/?p=2248","url_meta":{"origin":2292,"position":3},"title":"Press-Forming Adventures Part 4","date":"July 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, the owl worked out so well, I decided a hummingbird was in order. \u00a0If you recall the \"encouraging failure\" from the first post in this series, I used the copper sheet pressing from that to chase a small hummingbird skull. \u00a0That became the model for a press die. 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