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The rolling mills come with half round and square wire rollers www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery-Tools/Durston-Rolling-Mill,-D2-130-------Stacked-Combination-Mill-prcode-999-AXY
Oooh yes good point! This is quite the alternative technique! I can confirm our reverse action tweezers do hold an earring post in place so it can soldered whether they are help in a third hand or in your own hand!
Very helpful video! I have a bronze wristwatch, and I'm tired of looking at the tarnish. I've cleaned it now and will purchase this wax to keep it nice and shiny :)
In short yes... however there are different clays with different shrinkage rates now on the market. It's a good idea to experiment specific to your ring design, the thicker and wider a ring also affects sizing .
Hey people i am a complete amatur (litrally bought my first bit of silver and solder paste a few days ago from cooksons) every time i try to bond two jump rings togther to make a rope chain it just turns to crumbley dust and fails....any advice ...thanks
Ahhh it's so great you've started making jewellery! Don't be put off, it sounds like you are not heating the silver up enough. It's difficult to say exactly what is happening without seeing but generally solder paste is for small pieces of silver like jumprings and then solid silver and flux could be considered better for larger rings and bangles. When you solder silver you need to heat up the entire piece of silver before you focus any heat on the join with the solder on. If you have not had any success so far try heating up the silver using the very end of the blow torch flame where you can see no blue flame as this is the hottest. Move the the blowtorch evenly and smoothly, when the silver is hot move the heat to the solder to melt it and then heat the silver evenly again so the solder flows to the gap. Your join MUST be touching and it MUST be clean, spend some time making sure it is perfect. If you are using tweezers to hold your jumprings remember that the tweezers will absorb some of the heat. If you feel the silver is getting too hot just take the heat off for a moment. Ultimately if you think the solder join might not solder properly for whatever reason your instinct is probably right and you need to double check all your steps.
You can but it really depends on the size and thickness as to whether this would make a difference. It could be that you might benefit from tools to keep the setting more secure when setting or a tool to help push the metal over to secure the stone easier.
Hi! Yes you can as long as the torch will go up to around 800 degrees Celsius. Follow the instructions on the pack and make sure you have a safe environment
We would love to take on the challenge of showing how to make a sterling silver ring from scratch in 7 seconds :) This ring is the finished ring that is part of a whole series of our jewellery making videos as we make sterling silver wire and sheet from recycling sterling silver in our Birmingham factory. If you subscribe to our channel you'll get notifications of our tutorial videos on how to make jewellery (there's even a few on making a sterling silver ring from scratch for you to try).
This wax is a ring that's ready for lost wax casting, we've already sent it to a casting house and you can see the results of it cast in sterling silver in some of other videos. We a great book on this process so you can find out more about lost wax casting: www.cooksongold.com/Books/
Getting hold of some books like these can help: www.cooksongold.com/Books/The-Creatives-Guide-To-Starting-A--Business-By-Harriet-Kelsall-prcode-999-a174 www.cooksongold.com/Books/Handmade-To-Sell-By-Kelly-Rand-prcode-999-A145
Sian says: " It's not something I have tried, it would really depend on how much heat the seaglass can withstand, it might lose it's colour. I think ultimately you would have to experiment with the size and design."
Great question :) On the whole everything gets melted because we are the last port of call and we need the gold to make our new gold sheet and wire. The majority of this jewellery has been up for second hand sale and been bought and sold.
A great myth busters episode.... "The silver bullets used by the Lone Ranger are more effective than standard lead bullets. BUSTED In this test a silver bullets and a lead bullet were fired into layers of ballistic gel. The lead bullet penetrated farther than the silver bullet due to its weight, and thus is more effective in bringing down an opponent. Also, silver shrinks when cooled, forcing precision accuracy when forging bullets out of it, and was used as a form of currency back in the Wild West, which would make using silver bullets impractical and a waste of good money."
@@cooksongold I've cast silver bullets in the past. Always cast bigger than needed by a few thousandths, to make up for shrinkage, and finished with a file down to proper size. Was fun to be able to use som scrape silver and say I had silver bullets for werewolves or whatever, for any gun I had.
A pot like this is great for preventing the clay from drying: www.cooksongold.com/Precious-Metal-Clay/Silver-Clay-Moisturising-And-------Storage-Pot-prcode-855-091 Project X do a rehydration fluid: www.cooksongold.com/Precious-Metal-Clay/Project-X-X2O-Rehydration-Fluid----30ml-prcode-855-322 You can also use water but be sure it does not contain any contaminates or additional minerals.
That’s some serious high tech engineering on such a small object. The possibilities of using this is endless and with a large chuck of money, a bit of time to learn it will seriously open a tin of worms to the ‘hand wax carvers industry ‘ I still wouldn’t say no to it though. 😊
It was really interesting to watch. The inside still had to be sized and smoothed by hand. One of the joys of wax carving much like painting is that the craftsperson brings their own unique style which a machine or computer could never really replicate. The final ring was cast in silver and it does look great!
Just taking a quick look at the product, you should have received 5 rollers in total, the wire roller needs a flat roller for the bottom in order to make D section and V section as one side needs to be flat. www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery-Tools/Combination-Rolling-Mill-With-5----Rollers,-Value-Range-prcode-999-AXWA&query=blue%20rolling%20mill&channel=uk
These pieces are broken and scratched and the majority of the gemstones are broken too. These pieces have come to us as their final destination, some pieces have already been available for people to buy elsewhere but did not sell.
"Magnetic materials are always made of metal, but not all metals are magnetic. Iron is magnetic, so any metal with iron in it will be attracted to a magnet. Steel contains iron, so a steel paperclip will be attracted to a magnet too. Most other metals, for example aluminium, copper and gold, are NOT magnetic."
So you could potentially build up layers of clay on the shell and then burn away the shell, however it's not guaranteed the structure would not collapse. You could also still make a mould however it's likely you would also still lose the shell removing it from the mould. Ultimately you would need to test and develop your own technique specific to your shell or material.
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Not much information in this video. Not really a ‘How to’ at all. No comments about the amount of pressure and how to judge it, that you must have the item you’re cutting, pressing etc, dead centre, or what other things you need to stack on the plattern to lift the pieces or why. Can you make another with this sort of info please? There is a global lack of proper tuition on using the press. Many thanks in advance.
Great feedback :) we would love to do another video! It sounds like you have lots of great knowledge and experience so please let us know how you would judge the amount of pressure and what you need additional and we can add this too.
