Year+8+Elective+Metals

**Jewellery Project - Metal** Using Pewter to make jewelry, using cuttle fish to create a mould, and casting. Cuttle fish is easy to manipulate and create one time molds for casting, making each piece of jewelry individual. Below are images of a live cuttle fish and cuttlefish bones.
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**Pewter ** Pewter is a malleable metal alloy, traditionally between 85 and 99 percent tin, with the remainder consisting of copper, antimony, bismuth, and lead. Copper and antimony act as hardeners while lead is common in the lower grades of pewter, which have a bluish tint. It has a low melting point, around 170–230 °C (about oven temperature), depending on the exact mixture of metals. The word //pewter // is probably a variation of the word //spelter //, a colloquial name for zinc.
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We are going to create jewelry, or ornaments, here are some examples of different styles for you to think about before you design your jewellery.    **Research Task** Find 8 - 10 pictures of images, designs or jewellery shapes you like or find interesting. Copy them onto an A4 page document and annotate the pictures to explain the features of the design, elements you may incorporate into your own designs, where the design may have been inspired from or other relevant information.

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