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 )
thats my metal press
yay for awesome tools !!
you feed the bracelet through the former 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch untilyou have the bracelet form
you can see how the bracelet forms
hand cranking is a lot of work
almost finished forming
I put the bracelet into the pickle solution after I formed it
Pickle solution will clean your oxidation from metal
hearts , hearts , hearts and more hearts
