Adding Texture To Silver Sheet Metal

Place the sheet on a clean flat smooth steel block.

Adding texture to silver sheet metal.

Some people might prefer to apply a little tape to the sides of the plate to hold it in place but i just held mine in place. Cast some silver cuttlebone peices then solder them onto a silver sheet of bright finish. Tape the four corners down with painter s tape or masking tape. 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.

If you are adding a hammered texture or putting your piece through a rolling mill with a texture sheet your metal will become thinner. Texturing with metal stamping. I rolled over the top surface of the metal with a hard rubber brayer which raised the pattern of the plate on the metal. Wet metal causes tool rust and oxides on the metal will become embedded into the sheet during hammer texturing.

I placed a texture plate onto my work table and put a sheet of lightweight metal on top of it. Fold form 26 or 28 gauge sheet remember there are other factors to consider such as adding texture to your metal. These are designed to texture either lightweight metal or polymer clay. 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.