I have just been too busy to put any posts up here. There has been SO much going on too. In addition to making up a couple of commissions for a customer, I've been given a whole batch of sewing machine needles which are no longer of any use, so have been working on a piece based on them. I found that they solder really nicely:

With any luck, I should get a picture up here tomorrow.
Also of interest to jewellers is
Dorothy Hogg's Blog at the V&A.