Great project. If you use locking plyers to hold while you twist, I've found its easier to keep the twist even and tight. I've also used 2 locking plyers, one on each end (if you don't have a vice available.) Try a 6 or 8 gauge wire (6 is heavier, 8 is lighter, 10 is even lighter but works well too for bracelets. I get my wire from Home Depot, electrical dept, on a spool they cut it for you. Cheap, easy to work.) for the base. Flatten the whole length, but do the extra spread for one end. Then, holding this just after the spread in a non marring jaws of your vice (heavy piece of scrap leather works well) you can just twist the center part till you reach the right length and then do the flat for the other end. This is a nice looking style. If you're a stamper, try hammering it flat first, stamp symbols or words, and then twist the center part. Another variation is soldering the end of a pair of smaller wires (already twisted and slightly flattened or not as you like) wind this 'in the groove' of the twist of the flattened 6 gauge wire. I just cut and solder the ends of the small twist to size when I reach the end. But be sure to curve it into a bracelet before cutting the small braid to size! Using brass wire for the smaller twist can also add visual interest. Have fun!
@@AmberWolfWorkshop got some of my regular silver jewelry on Etsy at CraftyFoxArtworks. Go to Etsy, plug the name in as shown in their search bar. I've got about 30 different styles in copper bracelets but a bit more to do till they go up there. Been a jeweler since '86. I was apprenticed 1st to a blacksmith, then an art jeweler, then a small production jeweler. Love to teach and write articles. Haven't done anything on RU-vid yet, probably should, but videos I've never done. I'm a designer, artist craftsman, sculptor/carver. Damn I just like to make things! You know what I mean. I work in leather, ceramics, wood, horn, bone and antler as well as stone, metal, cloth and I often combine them. Makes it more interesting!
Great job. The bright lights in the background make it hard to watch the video for very long. And overhead or 45 degree downward view is ideal for this though. People want to see what you're doing, not (sings) blinded by the lighttttt. I love the ASMR aspect. And again, nice bracelet.
@@elsieberrios7559 dip your finger in boron/borax a couple of times and eat it. It helps our bones, and helps our creaky hands work again and stop aching. It’s just a mineral we need and don’t get. Waaay off topic, sorry. Beautiful bracelet.
Sticking my nose on where it might not be wanted again. But I hope this might help you if I am not teaching you eggs sucking. Make sure your metal is clean, give the ends you are soldering a quick run with grit paper to get shiny metal if you have heated it at any time pickle it. (That means soaking g it in a mild acid you can find the how to on jewellery making sites) when you put the rods together they must touch. Solder can not jump. If the metal is round, just run a file over it to make a flat surface so the metal can touch flush. Put the flux on these flat sides and put the solder between the rods and just a little into the grooves. The metal is bonded together with the help of the flux. Solder will run when heat is applied but the bond will be where the flux is. The metal won"t bond if it is not fluxed (metal will fuse with heat but that is another story for another time) Solder follows the heat so be careful to heat only the ends and down the over the edges you are soldering not the whole rod. Look up how a torch flame works. I struggled to solder because I tried to heat the solder with the tip of the torch and couldn"t do it. The flame is hottest just in front of the blue cone. Once you put the torch onto to the metal do not be tempted to take it off to have a quick peek. This will cause oxides to build up and then metal just gets mycky and nothing happens. Have patience. It will take time. The metal goes yellow and then red and solder suddenly flows. Take the touch off immediately or the metal will melt. Soldering is about good process and practice. It takes time to get used to the pace of it. It seemed to take for ever and then happens all at once. It is not easy to learn by yourself because you need to see the red yellow change. A nano second as the solder is beginning to move you might see what is called is called the solder flash, it is a fleeting bright glint. If you can get a jeweller to show you. But keep trying. Once you get it you will not forget it and making jewellery is a great skill that is dying out
PS a quick word about solder. Look up the different solder types there are three jewellers solders. It is not the stuff welders use. You probably know this. But just in case you didn"t I thought I would mention it. Anyway. When get you get the strip put it through a roller untill it is about half its depth or hammer it thinner. Cut the pallions (bits to you and me) into small, like small bits. If you put big bits on your work it takes too long to flow and the metal tends to melt first or it will roll into a tiny irritating little ball that sits there just to annoy you. Good soldering.
@@AmberWolfWorkshop I am sorry. I did not mean to be the precocious brat in the class. I thought I was responding to a comment in the comments section to someone who was struggling to with soldering. It is obvious from your video that you know what you are doing. I came here to learn from you. I hope you do not think I wa implying you can"t do it. I was hoping to help a fellow jeweller. I learn from you, I pass on my learning. And do on. I was hoping too that because you were not using solder techniques that those who came here might benefit from help. I really do not want you to think I was trying to undermine you. Quite the contrary. I have just made a torc cuff with three two strand twists because of your help. Thanks for your reply and thanks for your help. I do not know about you, but my wrists ache from all that twisting.
Thanks a lot for reply. Yes i searched the internet and found how is this acid called in czech. I have to make 30 vikings bracelets for kids on summer camp. So its gonna be fun. :D
Welcome. Just make sure to read about that chemical. It's toxic so you have to follow some safety rules. Especially when you will be working with kids. Good luck!
Dont worry i already read about this acid and safety rules. And there wont be any kids when i will be making the bracelets. Thanks and have a nice day!
at 3.13 you dump the copper in a bottle with Oksyda written on it, then into what looks like water. IS that a pickle" effectively- putting it direct into the pure mixture then into water to complete a clean up? Or is it a copper darkener or something. (I notice the translation comes out as " Oksyda "- huh? Obviously rooted in oxidisation but hey...).
I'm just showing how I make it. If you think twisting 4 wires at a time will work than go for it. I have never tried doing it your way so I don't know if it will work or not.
Ive tried melting the ends (as I see others have)- you say it takes a gas fitters torch? Ive tried a standard torch with butane- didn't get hot enough. Tried an expensive jewellers one, same. Bought a high temp MAPP torch- same again. Checking on line, apparently copper melts at 2000 degrees, MAPP only reaches 1400, butane less? The next 'torch technology' up is MAPP/ oxy mix- which gets to the 2000 degrees required- is this what you mean?
@@AmberWolfWorkshop yes - I would love to see what you were using at 2.22! I seriously can't afford 60e plus for twin gas system, but I have poured 2/3 of a can of mapp gas in & can't get it to fuse! The only thing is I haven't got a borax cone so I've been using normal flux - and anyway that's an impurity thing isn't it?
Are you using solder to fuse the ends, or simply torching the copper together with flux on it? Can this be done with a propane Coleman style torch head?
Nic mi na ten temat nie wiadomo. Po prostu zrobiłem co miałem w głowie bazując na tych wszystkich znaleziskach na jakie się napatrzalem przez lata w reko 🙂
Hi. No worries. I could make one this week. Can you let me know she length of the bracelet from one end to another please. Also if you prefer we can talk on facebook or instagram. You can find me under that name: amber wolf workshop
For "therapy," the copper wide surface area type bracelet must be overlapping with out touching, with a type of closure to hold its position as insulated, in a SPIRAL. The original health benefits came from science research a long time ago, which you probably never studied. 98% of users have it wrong. The vibrational energy in the air has frequencies, many from cosmic radiation. The cellular living tissue within the spiral gets absorbed energy at a low amplification. (Antenna) This works on people, animals and plants. I used this many years ago on my old dog with arthritis. Twice it worked.( Animals and plants don't have "BIAS"- Gee I think I feel better.) See - study the data published about the work of George Lakhovski and the booket "The Waves That Heal" Cancer eliminated in potted plants, and use of the electrically active type, or passive type copper spirals. So now you know.