In this video, I’m forging hollow neck-rings. The template is from the book by Alan Revere: Professional Jewelry Making: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Jewelry Techniques, but I have added my own twists and ends.
I was holding my breath while you were bending that with your hands. Had me stressed over here. 😂. Beautiful work. I’m going to head to my studio and ‘attempt’ one. Thanks for the inspiration.
So that's where my Grandmother's laundry press went! Very unnerving video... every hammer blow could have been a disaster and when you were bending by hand there, I was dreading a kink. Excellent work my friend. A fine show of craftsmanship. Your torc is the talk of the tube. Nice one. Oh, and have you ever read The Golden Torc by Julian May? An excellent series that I suspect you'd enjoy.
That's very inspiring. I love making things, and this looks awesome. But looks like it takes a real load of experience. Just the precision and accuracy of that hammer work was incredible. Much respect!
Pretty cool! Always found that particular project on the book intriguing maybe this is the sign I needed to try my luck?! Hahaha... Thanks for the video!
Watching you take the scrap silver, process it into an ingot then stretch it out cutting rolling hammering etc, my goodness that takes some skill! I can't imagine how many hours it took! Absolutely fantastic craftsmanship 👏🏻
What a beautiful result, nerve-wracking to watch though - yet, at the same time so satisfying. I could watch you work for hours, but I wouldn't get any work done myself! Hello from New Zealand
So incredibly beautiful necklace!!! You are really awesome with the hammer and when you started to bend the necklace I barely dared to look. Great job :)
Always look forward to your videos! Would have been very nervous bending it, and it came out beautiful. I think your rolling machine would be excellent for homemade pasta too😂 Beautiful radiometer on the window - way more elegant than one I have.
Thank you, always a pleasure making them for you. Yeah, you need to do a couple of practice pieces to develop a feel for the bending process. Pasta you say? Well theres a thought. :-) Thank you. I got it from my grandfather and it always reminds me of him.
You have to get a feel for handbending the tube, so you can feel when to anneal and hammer back into round, or the tube will fold on you. Oh, and your solder work needs to be good, or it will crack. :-) Thanks for watching.
You must be a magician, sir. I couldn't believe my eyes, the way you achieved such elegant form with your fingers only:) Such mastery, left me breathless. Can this be achieved with brass? And what kind of solder did you use for the copper piece? Please? I gather it is not achievable unless soldered...
Yeah, lots of scary processes in this project. :-) Good point, I forgot to film the setting up part. I used hard palliet solder to avoid it cracking during bending. Great, how is the weather down there?
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. Yes, I used copper for the practice piece, knowing well that it is much softer than silver. I used 0.6 mm. In the book 0.4 mm is used. Thanks for watching!
Hi! I love this! I have Alan's book so I'm trying this project. Can you please tell me where the seam is when it's complete? I tried to see where it was as you were bending, but couldn't decide where it was... Thanks in advance!
Professional Goldsmithing: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Jewelry Techniques by Alan Revere. Yes, ether that or use a stick of solder like the Silversmiths do, as it is quite a long seam.
Hi there! I've been trying to make this project in copper for several weeks. I can't get to smooth state. I paid much more attention to your video and saw both a upright raising hammer & tiny cows tongue anvil. Can you please share some details on these and how you used them? Also you said you altered the template from the book. I've tried so many different shapes and they all buckle and never get smooth. Could you share your template, type/size of raising hammer & cows tongue anvil used for smoothing/boujing? I'd love to actually get to the soldering but no matter how slow, gentle & cautious I end up with scrap everytime. Thank you for your help!
Hi Sara, Sorry to hear about your troubles. It is a quit a challenge. The mini stake and the hammer are both used as stakes to smoothen the surface to “iron out” the biggest dents. The changes I made to the template was to make it a bit longer and wider, as the design not made for my neck size. ;-) I’ll have a look if have some cut out footage that can illustrate the closing process. I think the most important point is to go slow and watch what the metal is doing. Once you got the metal in a U shape, planish out the dents. Then slowly close by hammering on the open side. If it closes unevenly, hammering on the sides will open the shape again. Remember to anneal when the metal hardens.
@@ShapingSilver Hi! Thank you so much for your reply. I really appreciate your technical feedback & suggestions. I think it may be too technical for me rught now so I've decided to go back and make sure I understand shaping more clearly. I'd love to know your template size if that is something you could share if not that's ok too. Yours is just perfect!! Thank you sooo much!!
