nicilaskin — metalworking
short and sweets today - bear pendant with peridot - fresh from the bench
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fresh from the bench spirit bear and garnet I made my own die for pressing out the bears soldered on a bezel cup and added some stars also punched a hole patina to darken the stars polished the bear added jump ring and chain
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infinity wedding bands
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wedding bands i made www.nicilaskin.etsy.com I cut 2 different width flat wire stock to length 5mm and 4 mm width stamped the infinity symbol filed the ends flat and formed them so the ends meet flush add flux and solder start heating with a torch quench in water and then clean in pickle solution the black is oxidation that happens during torching after the pickle bath now start forming use a ring mandrel and a nylon hammer first after forming the ring you can use a ball peen hammer to make the dimpled texture , polish the inside I...
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my project for the day
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project for the day flower ring with ruby - time to completion 1 hour 30 minutes made entirely by hand :) drew some flowers cut out with saw formed the flowers cut out a piece from flat wire and bend it to make the ring shank joining the ends together adding solder to the flowers so they can be joined this is after soldering and welding everything together cleaned it up and added a bit of patina added the stone I love metal :) www.nicilaskin.etsy.com
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heart bracelet
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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...
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silver tie bar with brass arrow
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draw your arrow on the metal sheet or draw it on a piece of paper and stick the paper to the metal sheet . I just like to draw the easy shapes on to my metal directly cut out with your jewelry saw and 1/0 saw blades clean the arrow with steel wool for easier soldering cut a 4 inch long piece from sterling silver I used 18 gauge ( thicker then that and it gets hard to bend into shape ) flux your arrow and add your solder I use extra easy wire solder ( silver ) fire up...
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