Like someone else mentioned, the different processes r so amazing to watch. I really enjoy learning from you, instead of always having to use my American jewelry schooling. I also love the Irish? Jig music. 😊🇺🇸
It’s amazing how different cultures around the world can come to the same (or similar) design conclusions, and arrive there by vastly different means! The end product looks like a flat “Viking Weave”, but the processes are so different 😮❤
a alucinante de uno en uno, uno dentro del otro mayándolos, para después tener que abrir cada orificio metiendo uno detrás de otro, una obra de artesanía y joyeria.
If you had finished the ends of the pins, instead of leaving them rough and uneven it would have been a beautiful bracelet. I do appreciate the videos and learning new techniques so thanks for that.
As you are creating this 2-part ring using silver (?) & copper, it brought to mind that many years ago, probably in 1960's, when I experimenting with married metals, I soldered 3 metal pieces, copper, nickle silver & nu-gold with straight edges together in a pattern, on a large charcoal block, probably using Hard silver solder and flux, as the 1st step. Don't recall, almost 60 years ago, if I pickled it or just placed it water. Since the soldering was completed, I checked the seams to see if any of solder had appeared on the front side, which it hd not. Then I rubber-cemented the curvy pattern which was created on graph paper to the married metal base and sawed it out using a jewelers' handsaw with #4/0 sawblade. Once sawn, used jewelers' files, semi-course & fine. Next step to get rid of file marks were several grades of silicon carbide "cloth" cut in narrow strips, finishing with Rouge "cloth". Final step was to attach a 3-piece "pin assembly" as the married metal piece, a pin, had curvy areas and circular or freeform openings and a straght-bar pinback would not work, so the 3-piece pin assembly was the only way! On the back of the piece, I held the pin stem where it needed to be located for the "joint" & the "catch" so the pin stem, after both joint & catch were soldered into place, would end up Beyond the end of the closed catch, as when pin is attached to clothing, one does Not want pin stem to slip out of the catch. Once that was all determined, the pin joint and catch were placed apart upside down on a charcoal block in tiny holes to each piece, a tiny amount of flux and Easy-flo Silver solder placed on the flat surfaces of both the joint & catch. Each were heated just enough to melt solder, & dropped into a "pickle" solution to clean. The 3-part married metal pin had a yellow ochre/water paste applied to All of the soldered portion seams, both front & back. The piece was placed upside down on the chacoal block, a tiny amount of flux was applied to the 2 spots on back of pin where the joint and catch would be placed, the pinstem was held in locking tweezers & held above joint- catch assembly to make sure they were alligned. Then the torch was lit which slowly warmed the pin, drying the flux and heating the whole piece up until the solder melted, called sweat-soldering, on the joint & catch attaching them to the 3-part pin; then placed unit into a container of water to remove the ochre paste. All that remained was to check all soldered portions to make sure nothing had separatedand then polish the piece using Tripoli, 1st, on a cotton buff wheel, then Rouge on another cotton buff, finally a green Rouge on a chamois buff wheel to finish. After cleaning with soap & water, last step was to attach pinstem to joint & close it with pliers. I still have the pin these many years later & sometimes wear it.
Having made handcrafted original sterling silver & some karat gold jewelry for many years, this bracelet is not what I would have shown as a beginning project for anyone not experienced in working with sterling silver; soldering & knowing the melting temperatures of the S S & the various solders, what solders to use & when, and the Acetylene torch in relating to S S & solders, etc. Hope this helps anyone who is not experienced in jewelry making; use of tools, torch/s; sanding/finishing work prior to polishing. For many years I taught S S jewelry-making & lapidary to psychiatric patients in a private hospital in New England. When patients came to my classroom, it was probably the first time they had been in a metalcraft class, as I doubt they had ever taken a class either in a junior or senior high school class, if it was even offered on the school's list of extra curriculum activities. After asking the patient if they would like to make a project, if the answer was Yes, then I would show them projects that were easy to start with like a ring, so they could begin how to use unfamiliar tools, how to solder, eventually polish and wear the ring out of the classroom & back to their unit. It probably took a few weeks because some classes were only once a week, while others might be 2-3x's per week. This project might have been the very first, they'd ever done of any craftwork. They might have shown it off on their unit, where staff also would have seen it & knowing praise can help boost one's spirit & morale, especially when patient's are down, must have helped, because they would be back for a new project. If the patient declined to begin a project, they could look around at what others were making, look at books or magazines, and if nothing else interested them they might be able to walk to the other two craft classroims on either side of mine, or if their unit had been escorted to my classroom, then they'd have to wait until the unit would be escorted back to another building to where their unit was located. Over 40+ years, I probably helped hundreds or possiblythousands of patients, ages as young as 9 to adults in their at least mid-60's. I learned a lot also, as that Spring (1960), I had just graduated from a junior college and that was to become my lifetime work, along with another component which began in Spring of 1984. But that's a different story.
That's really cool! Thank you for sharing videos like this. May I ask what you're using for solder? I'm slowly accumulating things I need to start my jewelry hobby. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks again.
