How To Make Metal Sheet Jewelry

Sterling silver sheet metal is excellent for making special handcrafted jewelry pieces.

How to make metal sheet jewelry.

Piercing with a saw frame. For the sake of ease i ll be making a pretty simple design that works. While you hold your pattern in place trace the edges with. Trim the edges off your paper and grab a sharpie.

Metal ready for hammer texturing should be clean oxide free annealed and bone dry. Forming metal involves turning flat metal sheet into three dimensional shapes for metal jewelry using methods like dapping doming raising fold forming chasing and repoussé swaging fluting etc. I used 22 gauge copper sheet from my metal scraps leftover from other jewelry projects. 24 gauge and thinner sheet is very useful for metal stamping and embossing.

Make custom metal jewelry with brass copper aluminum and nickel silver sheet. Blades are held in. Wet metal causes tool rust and oxides on the metal will become embedded into the sheet during hammer texturing. Seal the crimp using the crimp tool s round hole.

These base metals make beautiful and colorful artisan jewelry without the high cost of precious gold or silver. Copper sheet 22 or 24 gauge at least 65mm x 40mm 2 56 x 1 57 size. Watch more how to make jewelry videos. A jeweler s frame saw holds tiny blades to cut intricate shapes.

Tape the four corners down with painter s tape or masking tape. Anyone who wants to get started making metal jewelry must first make an investment of a few basic tools. Measure enough wire to make the piece of jewelry plus 6 inches for finishing. Each of my triangular copper sheet earrings measure 40mm x 35mm x 30mm 1 57 x 1 37 x 1 18.

How to make a sheet metal pendant step 1. Draw your design on a piece of paper. Sheet metal jewelry basics saw file sand polish step 1. Lay the beads out on a bead board in an appealing order.

Place the sheet on a clean flat smooth steel block. When i enrolled in my first metals class i was given a list by my instructor of tools and equipment i would need to purchase. Attach a clasp to one end of the wire by running the wire up through a crimp through the hole in the clasp and back down through the crimp bead. Welcome to creative sid.