Hello! My name is Chad Parker, and I am a long-time jewelry silversmith. If you are interested in learning a new hobby that pays for itself, or want to create a lucrative business, this channel is a great resource. Silversmithing has been a money maker for me. Here: find great content related to silversmithing, including project videos, tips, techniques, information on gemstones, and other content for makers. I often get people who do beading or wire-wrap who are ready to try to learn to use a torch. Two of the strengths that I bring to my instruction are my soldering skills, and my 30+ years as an educator. One of the joys about this is that everyone finds their own best way to do things when metalsmithing. I hear great ideas from other makers that I absolutely never thought of. I love sharing ideas, techniques, and tips. I welcome comments, video ideas, and people sharing their methods. I try to answer all comments!
Again another awesome well explained tutorial for us beginners. Thanks chad. By the way I choose the eye as my favorite. I'd like to try one with a bezel set stone for the eyeball. Would that work or have you done anything like that?
I really like all of them. My husband is working with raw stones cutting them and setting them his mother gathered so many stones some cut and some uncut she left him the grinding and polishing machines. He's learned alot from the books she left. It's crazy how things just fall into your lap. He cuts cars for a living.😅 He was a Marine when we met.
Hello Anna! I’ve heard them called Claw gem tweezers, gemstone grabbers, gemstone pickup tool, and probably a couple of other names I’m forgetting:). Thanks for the nice comment!
Omg how did you know?! I destroyed a little bit of silver and quite a few stones last week. 😅 I ended up making an oval bezel. My torch likes to melt EVERYTHING at once lol. Got some easy/med hard sheet solder, seems to be much better. Truly appreciate you sharing your skills! It may save this girly a few inches of silver at 3 am. 😅❤🫶
Hey Chad. I fell off for a while. So I have lots of videos to catch up on. All 3 rings are really nice but my fav would be the one with the rope detail. Thinking about making similar for my husband. Great vid as usual!
Hello Catherine! It has a page with information about each project I did in 2023 and includes a link to each tutorial video. If you go to Apple Books, you can see a sample of it:)
Chad hey! Thank you so much for the great video, beautiful work, and interesting video clip! I would looove to go out rock hounding myself here in Indiana! Congrats on 13k subscribers you deserve them and many many more your a great person and teacher!!!!!❤🎉😊
I love the Art Neuveau period in jewelry so much and you’ve done that and the Art Deco beautifully and thing’s exactly like this bracelet-I absolutely love it 😍
Mary Ellen jasper is quite old (even geologically speaking) and is the fossil remains of big algal mats called stromatolites. Stromatolites were among the first life on earth and are thought to be the organism responsible for the oxygen to our atmosphere. The oldest stromatolites are about 3.5 billion years old and those composing the Mary Ellen Jasper are just under 2 billion years old. Living stromatolites still exist. They live in shallow warm seas with high salinity. The largest known living stromatolite community is in Australia.
Thank you! Even though I sometimes "know" how to make some of the simpler projects, I watch anyway. You always have great tips on how to avoid problems and make the process easier.
Hello Beth:). If I was mounting the stone atop the band as a separate head, I would probably curve the bracelet first. In this case I wanted to show how to effectively incorporate a bezel into the band of a bracelet without having bezel distortion happen when you shape it if that makes sense.
Chad, I’m looking to get a silversmith torch like yours from Rio Grande. It comes with a #00 tip and you use a #1 tip. The description says it will reach 4770F (2632C). Will this #00 tip be sufficient for this cuff bracelet as well as finer jewlery without changing tips? Should I order a #1 tip like you use ? Excellent tutorial and I am in the middle of making a bracelet very similar to yours and it has been a lot of help for me!! Thanks!!
Hello Larry! I would probably get a #1 if I were you. Even with what I was using, it took some work to get this one really hot since it was such a big hunk of metal. If Flying Chef sees this, maybe she could comment. I know she uses smaller tips sometimes.
The stone reminds me of a Conker, the seed from a Horse chestnut tree. We use them to play a game called Conkers. Do you do the same on your side of the pond? Fantastic work Chad, you really did John's stone proud. Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend.
@@chadssilversmithing You drill a hole in your conker and thread it onto a shoe lace/piece of string. Then one of the two players hold out their conker, while the other swings theirs and tries to smash the others. The one with the surviving conker wins.
@@chadssilversmithing I knew a lady who had one with three circles that moved around a center diamond. I have no idea how it worked but it was very neat.
