nicilaskin — copper bracelet

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...

made a copper tea light holder :) cut a 1 1/2 inch wide strip by 6 inch long from copper draw your shapes onto the metal small tip (if you like a shape make a template out of plastic via exacto knife ) cut out your lizards i use a jewelers saw with 1/0 blades shape the strip ,dome a circle and cut a 3x3 inch square solder everything together ( use plumbers solder as it has a low melting temp ) start polishing - steel wool will do or sand paper put a tea light in and light it...

      Today I am posting another tutorial .  I made a link bracelets with soldered on flowers and butterflies .ts made from sterling silver ( 18 gauge and 20 gauge ) .By the way silver prices are way down right now so if you need to buy sterling do it now !! What you need for this project : 1 jewelry saw with 1/0 saw blades , 18 and 20 gauge sterling silver , Split rings , clasp , silver solder , a torch , some gas for your torch , a charcoal block or heat tile, Flux,...

I made a code of arms wrap bracelet for this tutorial cut out your shield as the base and whatever you desire on it I used 20 gauge sterling silver make sure your shape fits well on your shield without overlapping Cutting out that bird was not easy by the way ,Its really tiny and detailed solder both together dome your shield in a dabbing block of if you do not have one you can keep it flat clean the back of the shield with sand paper cut some short strips of flat wire bend with a needle nose plier...

  This is actually a very simple thing to make . You start out with a wide copper strip ,I used 1 1/2 inch  by 16 inch17 gauge copper for this cuff bracelet .  Draw your bird onto the bracelet strip or on a piece of paper . Pierce the inside of the wings and the inside of the birds body and cut out the bird. When you are done with cutting out file the edges nice and smooth . Form your bracelet on a mandrel either oval or round until you are satisfied with the shape . Start polishing...