Adding Texture To Silver Sheet Metal

Cast some silver cuttlebone peices then solder them onto a silver sheet of bright finish.

Adding texture to silver sheet metal.

If you are adding a hammered texture or putting your piece through a rolling mill with a texture sheet your metal will become thinner. Traditionally carried out using a weighted fly press to force metal into a shaped mould decorative metal stamping can be carried out by simply using a shaped punch and a hammer. Place the sheet on a clean flat smooth steel block. Fold form 26 or 28 gauge sheet remember there are other factors to consider such as adding texture to your metal.

Tape the four corners down with painter s tape or masking tape. Texturing with metal stamping. You can use rolling mills to simply flatten thin harden your silver or you can run a sheet strip of silver through with something textured such as the brass sheets above as well as burlap tough leaves fine steel mesh etc to get cool patterns. So start with a thicker gauge than what you want your finished product to be.

Completment the silver with various types of gold rose gold seems to shand out quite well you can texture the silver and have the gold elements with a bright finish dome different shapes them solder them onto a textured sheet or vise versa. Wet metal causes tool rust and oxides on the metal will become embedded into the sheet during hammer texturing. Metal ready for hammer texturing should be clean oxide free annealed and bone dry. I placed a texture plate onto my work table and put a sheet of lightweight metal on top of it.