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Soldering jewelry: workshop by emilyvanleemput on April 7, Table of Contents Soldering jewelry: workshop. Intro: Soldering jewelry: workshop. Step 1: Designing. Step 2: Soldering the parts workshhop.

Step 3: Polishing. Step 4: Cleaning up. Step 5: The pieces I made. Related Instructables. Author:emilyvanleemput Interview!

When I've wokd completed a project, I'm a happy person. Since being happy is jewellery workshop wood 900 good thing everyone should do once in a while, I create. It's a vicious circle actually, I'm not able to stop making, because then I'm not workzhop. And, when Workshkp not happy I will start making. Intro: Soldering jewelry: workshop This instructable is based on a jewelry workshop I followed 1,5 years ago.

My mother came across an advertisement for a youth jewelry workshop. She asked me if I wanted to follow it, so of course I said woo.

It will show you jewellefy steps Jewelery took to make the pieces and provide you workshlp some tips to make your own soldered jewelry. Because it woov a workshop, I had wlod a lot more materials and machines I could use than usual, I used alpaca wire for example, but I've also provided alternatives where possible.

Qorkshop workshop taught me a lot of new techniques and approaches, and it was a great afternoon, so worksuop big 'thank you' to Kiona van Herwijnen, who gave the workshop and provided me with the pictures for this instructable. You might be wondering why I'm posting something that I did 1,5 years ago now: I lost the pictures.

I knew I had an email with them jewellery workshop wood 900, but I just jewellery workshop wood 900 find it anymore. Until a few weeks ago : Jewellery workshop wood 900 felt like I still had to make this instructable, because I also posted a forum topic about this workshop and got quite some positive responses and people were interested in seeing an instructable about it.

So, here it is! I really hope you like it! Step 1: Designing Before bending the parts, it's helpful to know what parts you actually want and how you can bend them. The first thing I did wood jewellery workshop wood 900 bending some regular shapes with basic wire. There was a whole sheet of shapes to practice, pictured in the bottom right corner, but the idea behind bending regular wire first is getting the feeling of the bending.

Also, jewrllery bending a few shapes, it's easier to decide what shapes you owod to use in your design. After bending basic shapes, I started designing. wopd easiest to use multiple basic shapes in your design, keep in mind that you should still be able to bend it.

Don't try to get the perfect design in one time, just make small sketches and end wood the one you want to use. Try to keep in mind that it should still be possible to join the pieces, so make sure they are touching each other in the design.

Also try to think of the final look, with a pendant for example, how you want your piece to hang. If you want to make a loop, it's easiest to include it in the design as well. I decided to go for two loops, one on both ends. Once the design was made, it was time to start with the alpaca wire. If you don't feel comfortable about using more expensive wire, you could use any wire you want of course, but this was the wire provided in the workshop.

Use the pliers needed to shape the wire the way you want to. If you are going for a symmetrical part, cut both pieces jewellery workshop wood 900 once, to make sure they have the right length. By using the same parts of the pliers, for example the bottom part of round nose pliers, it becomes a lot easier to make them look the same. By laying the piece of jewelry out the way you want it to be, you can also make sure the different parts fit to each others size.

For example, I placed a heart between the workhsop irregular swirls, which had to have the exact right size. When you have the other parts already laying there, you can correct the remaining shape and try jewellery workshop wood 900 it fits. If something isn't going the way you designed it, it could be a good idea to just improvise.

You shouldn't cling jewellery workshop wood 900 too much to that design. I learned this when making the butterfly ring. What can I jewellery workshop wood 900 about it? I wanted to make a worksjop ring.

Step jewelkery Soldering the parts together When all the parts have been bent, hewellery time to solder them together. For the soldering, I used silver solder and a burner. After the soldering Jewellery workshop wood 900 used vitriol. There are three types of the solder: Hard, middle and soft. Hard solder has the highest melting point: around degrees Celsius. Middle solder has a melting point of around degrees and soft solder has a melting point of around degrees.

These different types of solder are useful when you need to solder multiple parts on one place. I used this jewellery workshop wood 900 make the ring: I started by making the butterfly shape.

I soldered the two halves together using hard solder and when soldering the butterfly to the ring, I used soft solder. Because the soft solder has a lower melting point, the connection made with the hard solder won't be broken when heating this part again. When a part only needs to be jewelleryy once, middle or hard solder is recommendable for a strong connection. To solder the parts together: Carefully place a piece of solder on jewelleryy connection you want to make.

Since the pieces are quite small, it's easiest to jewellerh tweezers. Take the workshoop and heat the part you want to solder. When it's hot enough, the solder will melt. When it does, you can stop heating it.

What might cause a bit of trouble here, is the flame from the burner actually blowing away the solder. If this happens, try heating it with a different angle. Once you Wooden Workshop Benches For Sale 53 have soldered all your connections, place the jewellery workshop wood 900 of jewelry in a small bowl large enough for the piece of jewelry of course of vitriol. This jewellery workshop wood 900 dissolve the remains of the soldering.

Step 3: Polishing To polish the soldered piece of jewelry, I used a polishing machine. Of course, there are other ways to polish your piece of jewelry, like by hand. When you have put the machine on, you can start polishing.

workshopp not to want to finish the complete thing at once, just focus on one jewellery workshop wood 900 at the time. Carefully bring your piece to the middle of the polishing piece and move it against the direction the machine is turning.

I've also drawn a quick explanation of this, see the picture above. Repeat this motion for every part of your piece of jewelry. Step 4: Cleaning up After the polishing,you will see and feel that the piece of jewelry is quite greasy. To clean this, I used a bowl of white spirit and a cotton swab. When all the filth is removed, you can dry jewellery workshop wood 900 piece and it's finished!

Step 5: The pieces I made I ended up making two pieces of jewelry, a ring and a necklace. Jewellery workshop wood 900 are the pictures jewellery workshop wood 900 directly after they were made, the intro picture is from now, 1,5 years Jewellery Workshop Wood Zip later. As you can see, the ring is a lot shinier, but I actually love both looks, shining and not, so I just leave it the way it jewellsry : I hope you liked this instructable, if you did I would love to know!

I bet that trying these new techniques was so much fun! Muhaiminah Faiz jewellery workshop wood 900 Jweellery Muhaiminah Faiz says: You're welcome! Apr 18, Amazing job! I have been wanting to solder rhinestone jewelry for a long time time. My first attempt failed, but seeing this makes me want to take another crack at it! I hope it will go better next time you try :D. Tarun Upadhyaya says: Hmmm I see a professional jewelry artist in making :D.

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