GOOD FORTUNE FISH BROOCHES - PROJECT SHEET
Create your own texturing stamps from nails and use them to add scales, fins and faces to a good fortune fish brooch. You’ll learn to make your own stamps, shape and form your fish and how to add a secure but simple brooch pin. In China and Europe fish are considered a symbol of wealth and abundance and we hope these fish brooches will bring you health wealth and happiness when you wear them.
To complete this project you will need:
MATERIALS
• Sheet metal - silver, gold, brass or copper. 0.7mm - 1.2mm.
• Tubing in a corresponding metal - the inner diameter of the tube should be the same or just fractionally bigger than the diameter of the pin wire
• Stainless steel or fully hard sterling silver wire. Around 0.8mm - 1.2mm in diameter
TOOL KIT ESSENTIALS• Piercing saw, bench peg and 2/0 blades
• Selection of needle files - square, triangular and half round
• Emery paper in 800 grit and 1200 grit or thereabouts.
• Drill or hole punch pliers
• Soldering kit
• Old files - no longer used for precious metals
• Jobbing or chasing hammer
• Steel nails
• Finishing media of choice