Cleaning up a Silver Ring, Removing Solder, Making Round and Buffing Ready For Polishing 

I’m learning myself and wow I wish I would have really started earlier. Iv wanted to move metal for so long, I just never had the money or willpower. Comments like yours are nice to see. I know I’m on the right path.

@@someoneyoudontknow7407 , you have to remember, you're a artist. Good luck on your journey 👍

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@Emiliano Bryson instablaster :)

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I'm a beginner and quickly found a emery block as I was building my tools. I still use emery block. It has four grits with foam center, great for curves. Love It!

@@angiegulzow2882 I like those too. They are a lot easier on my hands, as well as the other advantages of the foam.

@@angiegulzow2882 hi, I was wondering where do you purchase it ? thanks a lot !!

Agnes Ismay new discovery; tack fine sandpaper around a sanding sponge. Works like a charm

@@angiegulzow2882 thank you ! I'm gonna check it out !

I've had great results with hard soap filing aluminum, haven't tried on copper and silver yet. Good suggestion! I use "Zote" soap from the Mexican laundry section. You get a big bar, it smells good and is very solid. Takes some of the misery out of working aluminum anyway.

TeaPotWood did you ever find the answer to that question? I’m looking through these to see if anyone says what cut because I need that info as well.

Hi Renee King, Im new to this but want to give it a go. Did you ever find out what cut file is best for removing excess solder from a ring like Andrew is doing in the video. Also would you have any idea of the size or length of the file he is using? Any help or advice would be great and very appreciated, thanks in advance.

@Hunter M - Heavenly days! 🤤 This sounds very similar (with obvious deviations, of course) to the investment in, and variety of, the tools, 🛠 supplies and equipment that my husband has been constantly acquiring (and replacing from wear, age, and upgrading/antiquity) for the last 40 years working on🚐🚗🚘🚙⛟ automotive transmissions! It's been a constantly "rotating investment" 💸💸 but fortunately also substantially tax deductible, as that is how he has provided our livelihood from two years after the time we were married👰🤵 (at 19 and 20) and he got his discharge from the USAF, to now, 👵👴while enjoying grandchildren and contemplating retirement! Yes, that's a considerable amount of supplies and equipment, so, it's probably a pretty good idea to be fairly sure that it's something you're going to want to stick with for some time to come! And perhaps derive income💰from as well. Even though it is possible to resell most of it to someone else with the same initial interest and desire to learn, it would be difficult at best to retrieve all💰💰 you put into it by doing so. Just be very sure that's what you want to do - is what I'd tell anybody who's looking at such a venture. What would I possibly know about it? My grandfather👴 was a bench jeweler from before I was born, taught me enormous amounts of knowledge of the biz 💍beginning when I was 9, 👧🏼and the only thing that stopped him was losing his sight 👀to macular degeneration 😢in both eyes in his 70's. Had that not been the case, he would have died⚰ at his bench, polishing a piece he had created, or faceting stones of some kind. He did that, too. Very well. Well enough in fact to have done some diamond💎faceting work for Harry Winston "back in the day" as they say. I saw pictures of the finished pieces - outstanding, of course, as anything less would not have been acceptable! 😉

Thanks for this list!!

What the hell

It’s a number 2 cut

@@Atthebench Thanks!!

i do though have enough junk silver laying around to make a lot of silver jewelry if i was any good at it and had the proper tools

He said hard solder for begginers and then work your way down.

Watch the first video. He tells says that you can buy the silver stick with a D form thats why is so round on the outside and flat on the inside. I hope this helps.

It's half-round wire. You can get it in gauges 0-24, with 0 being the largest, at Rio Grande: www.riogrande.com/product/sterling-silver-half-round-wire-dead-soft/100440gp You can buy wire that's half round or square for that matter half-round gives it a flat side + a domed side. That's how to achieve that style of ring. Andrew Berry has lots of excellent and informative tutorials. Cheers! 🙂

I read somewhere that Alum is the safest?

Mix pickle granules into warm water until the water is saturated. ie. no more granules can be dissolved.

@@Atthebench Ok thanks so much!!

@@Atthebench I bought a small pkg of pickle casting flux, is that what I use?

Shirley, I've seen him say in other videos that filing back & forth is a no-no, but you'll often see pros filing & they are going back & forth. He says that he's not applying any pressure to the backward movement, only to the front ward movement. So tho it looks like he's filing both directions, he really isn't. Apparently many pros do this. It must save a little time, not actually lifting the file off the piece to move it backward. But boy! It must take great control to not actually put ANY pressure on that file moving it backward!

I got a laugh there... Ah, there's a lot of brass in the world, but you have to look for bronze a little more... I have very limited experience with silicon bronze and aluminum bronze, both are very tough and seem to stand corrosion well. I'm noticing a lot of videos about making jewelry out of copper lately. This seems like a great material for general practice, there's tons of it all around! Also from a more limited POV, there are times when you really WANT something made of copper! Not to wear, but for some technical use. Also you can go nuts with electroforming and chemical treatments. I'm getting interested in this, I guess if some specific copper piece seemed good enough to wear you could try to plate it, or have it plated, or do it over in silver. These are just some general thoughts I'm having lately as I set up a bench at home just for general work. Ah, bronze might be nice to solder with "easy flow", which has is common and strong, but has a yellow color... and of course any solder works on Cu, but most magically and specially Cu-Phos, which flows like water, and doesn't need flux. HM

Yeah it's hilarious. I laughed through the whole video. I showed all my friends who know nothing about jewelry and they thought he was a comedian. So funny. 👽👾