Jigsaw Heart

by Jim Osment
(Brisbane Australia)

This was a very fun piece to make.I enjoy it when it is an interesting design,relatively quick and easy to make and turns out great!

All I did for this one was to place a square of brass on top of a square of copper and cut them both out at once with my trusty jewelers saw.this gives you four halves, two brass and two copper but the clever bit is that the left and right sides interlock perfectly with only the thickness of the blade between them.

Then I just placed them together, one brass,one copper on a non-flammable flat surface, like an iron mesh or a fire brick. Solder together using a free flowing silver solder.

You always end up with a bit flowing onto the sides but you just use relatively thick(eg 0.8mm) sheet and grind the excess solder off both sides while it's still flat. Then just hammer it on a block of wood to dish it out and polish the front smooth. Leaves a nice clean hand hammered surface on the back and polished and buffed on the front.

It's shiny and pretty with the romantic aspect of the two haves interlocked as one etc.


Jim Osment
Hammered Hearts