Making A Silver Stacker Ring In 10 Minutes - Making Your Own Silver Jewellery 

amymckinney2011 yes I need to know this too!

if you can afford anything else to beautify yourself with you can invest if you WANT to metalsmith. think how expensive a tiny bag of makeup is, or a hair appointment, or a manicure, tanning bed, a new outfit, etc

hi Helen. In UK try Cookson Gold or Betts metals. USA Rio Grand. Dave

I know this is an old comment but.....You can’t harden wire with a torch. You can “soften” (anneal) the wire with a torch. And most metal fabricators provide stock in dead soft, half hard or hard, your choice. Hard can be annealed to soften. To harden a wee ring like this, the best bet is a tumbler. Otherwise you can gently pound it with a rawhide/urethane/plastic mallet to work harden.

Dan McCarthy ideally hard solder is best

yes you can with practice. it is possible to over heat a diamond so you have to be careful.

In the uk we buy them from bettsmetalsales in Birmingham

In this case yes. I normally never use paste. I usually use strip solder and borax as a flux.

Scott Sandison I‘m guessing it is sterling silver as it needed solder and wasn‘t just fused.

Sounds like a puzzle ring?

Could have been chain mail

Ideally use hard because it is a stronger solder as it has a higher percentage of silver

No. Simple answer. I never tumble as I feel that the finish is no where near what can be achieved by hand.

Thanks for taking the time to answer :-)

This could be copper plating due to using iron/steel tongs to dip in the pickle. This is why true pickle tongs are made of copper instead.

It is a silver solder. There are tiny pieces of silver solder already mixed with a flux that are in the syringe.

Andrew Berry thanks! Connecting question, 1) what's the proposition of the silver and flux? 2) How is the metal in the syringe in a liquid form? Pardon my lack of knowledge... I'm a complete beginner!

Ashima Sharma like he said, it's not metal. It's powdered solder mixed with flux. Instead of painting your joint with flux, then placing a pallion(or chip) of solder on then heating, you just squeeze out a little of the solder paste out onto the joint and heat till the solder flows.

catz Keet thanks for clarifying :)

I've seen on his other videos that he uses (loves) a white nylon brush (from bettsmetalsales) plus tripoli polish

Aaron R. Williams Hi Aaron! Did you recieve a reply? I would like to know the answer to that question myself! Thanks😃

Halli Adams -Halli, no I didn't.

Aaron R. Williams 😕Well, thanks for answering.

Halli Adams Not a problem.

No, rouge is a final high finish polish

@Atthebench ahh thank you, the same as Glanol then ?

I think is 12 gauge

@@Atthebench thank you! Love your videos.

Erica Spins It is a fine polish that brings up metal to a high mirror like finish

Brandonliin Silva - The video explains how to make the ring. If you mean how do you get the balls on the wire, you don't. As Andrew explained, it's a specialty wire you buy already made up. That's why it's such a quick job! This type of wire is used by metalsmiths as a design element that can be added on to other pieces, for example, at the base of a bezel, for added interest (a lot of Native American or southwestern style jewelry has this feature), or added anywhere you want a beaded detail. Once you order some, you'll find a million different ways to use it! In the US, I know Rio Grande carries it under the name "full bead wire" (they also carry a "half bead wire," which instead of being beaded all the way around would have a flat back). In the video, it looks like Andrew used 2mm full bead wire; Rio has one that measures in at 2.03mm. It's sterling silver, and it's dead soft, so you will need to do a bit of the gentle hammering on a softer surface (like wood) that Andrew shows, in order to harden your finished ring sufficiently. If you go to Rio's website and search for 'silver wire,' you'll see a lot of different types of specialty wires (called 'gallery wire' or 'pattern wire') you can use to make similar rings, again as Andrew noted. Have fun!

Foxiepaws ACAnderson no. This is actual silver solder to join sterling silver

Oh there was a sponsored ad underneath for Art Clay so I just presumed that was what you were using. I will have to have a look for the solder you had. Btw loving the channel x

What kind of bit/end did you use with your rouge to polish?

You can but the reason he’s using paste here is because it’s a TINY soldering area and it requires a TEENY amount of solder. That’s hard to do without flooding with pal lions. Paste will also stay put much more easily than pallions.But you CAN use them, paste is just easier.

Bruce Fulton, if you slightly hammer it down for better size, this small ring will be hardend 😊

Yes but my thumb nail was damaged when I hit it with a hammer as I was holding a nail whilst felting the shed roof lol