Chasing and Repousse'

Draw your design

Design is based on setting these Sleeping Beauty Turquiose Cabs

Proper calibration is important when Chasing a setting

The pattern is taped on with double sided tape and the I follow the lines with an exacto knife

Marking the edges

Removing the pattern

Here you can see the pattern scratched into the sterling 

Here is where the stones will sit

With a jewelers saw I cut out the top band of the cuff 

Here it is 

Now I prepare my pitch bowl for the chasing by heating the pitch with a heat gun

Below you see the Vaseline. To make it easier to remove your piece from the pitch I highly recommend rubbing a thin layer in the back or you will have to clean pitch off the back.

Piece is set in the pitch and the pitch is pushed over the edge of the silver. 

Here I an chasing the pattern on 

Here you see what it looks like as I chase 

This is what it looks like on the back side 

You will need to straighten out your piece as you work on it 

Here we add Vaseline to the front side that was just chased 

Now I will start the repousse'

These are the tools I am using

Punching in dome dots 

Chasing  in pattern

Ready to heat and remove 

Now I will use my torch to anneal my piece

Poor to annealing I dipped my sterling piece in barrier flux to keep the fires ale from building up 

Quench 

And place it in a pickle to clean it up 

Hammer flat trying not to hit on the repoussed area 

Back on repousse side 

Flip Vaseline and refine detail 

Check to see if stones are fitting

Shape

This is the back half of the cuff