AngloPlat Prototype

After desiging the shape of my earrings, and deciding that the way I will add colour to them would be plique ajour enamelling, I made my silver prototype...

Because silver solders melting temperature is lower that that of the enamelling kiln, I was not able to enamel onto my piece that I soldered together (far right), because the solder will run and the piece may fall apart. This prompted me to fuse my pieces together, a technique that I had never used before this. These fused shapes can be seen on the left in the photo below.

After fusing the earring shapes together I went on to enamel them without fear of them falling apart. The photo below shows the finished prototypes...