Silver Locket/Box

Hello...it's been a bit of time since I last posted. To be honest, the teapot (see previous posts) has been taking up a lot of my time as it requires significant sanding and filing as part of the very long process of finishing it off - the construction, the bit I like the bet is over, so it's taking me a long time to finish...

so

I decided I needed a break, so, since I had to be around the house a lot this weekend, I decided to get going on something new.

I decided it was going to be silver, did a bit of design brainstrorming and then began work on my new silver...box...locket....thingy....

Here's progress so far;

Starting with a flat sheet of silver, I cut a strip to form the side of the box...locket...thingy.
I formed the roughly elliptical shape through a combination of formers and digital manipulation...i.e. I bent it...
I didn't want a true ellipse so it's slightly 'flattened'

Soldering the side wall to the silver plate forms one side of the box as shown below. I cut away part of the side wall to leave a slot opening in the side.

 For a while, I toyed with putting a double hinged lid.....

......but had a couple of soldering disasters, which left me with the lid pieces, but almost melted the box itself....so I changed my design idea...

Inverting the box and placing it on another flat sheet allowed me to form the complete box;

 Then, the long process of sanding and filing to trim off the excess and start to smooth out all of the scratches my clumsiness has added during the past couple of days;

 

Now.....for phase 2.......which I'll start tomorrow :)