heart bracelet

Posted by 36877008 on Jan 20, 2015

anticlastic bronze cuff with copper hearts

cut a 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 inch wide strip from 20 gauge bronze

cut lots and lots of hearts from copper

I have a heart cutter from swanstrom ,

flux the back of your hearts and add solder

I use hard wire solder for that

heat the hearts until the solder melts

and then flux the bronze strip and solder the hearts to it

quench in water

form your bracelet

Now I realize that not everybody has a metal press with the anticlastic / synclastic former ,so you can make the bracelet normal on a wooden bracelet mandrel and a raw hide or nylon hammer. I happen to have a full metal shop and have 2 hand cranked metal presses ( the hydraulic ones scare me and I do it rather by hand soI have more control )