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Benjamin Sickles

Name
Benjamin Sickles
Tribe
Oneida Nations of the Thames
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SWAIA Booth History

SFIM25
CP 16
SFIM24
WIM25

2024 Best of Show Awards

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2025 Best of Show Awards

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Portfolio Example & Artist Statement
Benjamin Sickles

With a rich heritage as a 3rd Generation Haudenosaunee Silversmith, I excel in creating Traditional style and Contemporary jewelry. My designs include stunning earrings, pendants, bolos, medallions, old style broaches, chains, bracelets, and rings. I work with a variety of metals, including sterling silver sheet, wire, casting grain, Argentium, 14k, and 18k gold. To achieve intricate details, I employ a piercing saw with a fine 8/0 blade, as well as stamping, Cutting/cabbing wampum shell, and raw turquoise set-in bezels. Furthermore, I utilize rolling ingots from alloying pure silver with S-88 Alloy also utilizing scrap sterling silver. Melted metals with a large oxygen/propane torch poured into variety of mold options casting in tufa, and sand casting. Centrifuge and Vacuum lost wax casting, the finishing process involves, vibratory for rough finish polish/buffing, burnishing and hand buffing and final inspection.