Practicing Sawing and Piercing

As soon as I got my first bench pin and saw I started practicing sawing intricate designs.

 I broke a number of saw blades in the process...

 Two of these have since become finished pieces.

Setting up my Bench

The second class I completed at Lillstreet was a full ten week beginning metalwork class.  During that class I developed skills that had been sampled in the previous short course.

I also started building my own little studio. It is pretty basic, but I can still work on and practice a lot of techniques.

Here are my studio assistants, Sebastian and Freya.  I also paint; though not as much since I started focusing on metalwork.

Some day I would like to get a proper jeweler's bench like this one at Lillstreet: