How do you chase and repousse?

1. Repoussé the metal. Take your repoussé hammer and punches, turn the metal over and hammer within the areas that you have just marked out.
2. Prepare for chasing. Once you’ve repousséd the metal, remove it from the pitch and clean it before chasing.
3. Redraw the design.
4. Use your chasing tools.
5. Finish off the piece.

What are chasing and repousse used for?

listen)) is a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design in low relief. Chasing or embossing is a similar technique in which the piece is hammered on the front side, sinking the metal. The two techniques are often used in conjunction.

What is the difference between chasing and repousse?

Chasing is the art of creating design on metal, from the front side. Repousse´ is the act of pushing the metal up, from the back side.

What is chasing in sculpting?

Chasing, metalwork technique used to define or refine the forms of a surface design and to bring them to the height of relief required. Chasing is the opposite of embossing, or repoussé, in which the metal is worked from the back to give a higher relief.

What is a chasing tool?

Chasing is the opposite technique to repousse, and the two are used in conjunction to create a finished piece. It is also commonly known as embossing. The top end of the chasing tool is struck with a chasing hammer while the work is held normally in a pitch bowl.

What is the repousse technique?

Repoussé, method of decorating metals in which parts of the design are raised in relief from the back or the inside of the article by means of hammers and punches; definition and detail can then be added from the front by chasing or engraving.

What does repousse work look like?

What is a chasing tool used for?

A chaser works in malleable metal such as or copper when looking to ornament a piece of work. Their tools allow them to raise, depress or push aside the metal without removing any of the material. “Chasing is one of the oldest forms of metal decoration. Tutankhamun’s gold mummy mask was made using this technique.”

What does a chasing hammer do?

Jewelry Making Tools The chasing hammer has a head with one smooth, slightly convex side and one ball-shaped side. The smooth side is used for chasing or indenting metal and the ball-shaped side is used for peening or smoothing out dents.

What is the difference between repousse and embossing?

When an object is embossed, it is decorated using a combination of both the chasing and repoussé technique. Typically, repoussé is first applied to the object to form the basic decorative shapes and patterns and then this decoration is chased to create further, more intricate detail.

What is a repousse hammer?

This repousse hammer (sometimes called a chasing hammer) is a versatile tool for forming and raising shapes from sheet metal. Sheet metal is supported in a bed of warm pitch and punches are struck against it to bend and stretch it from the reverse to raise a design.