Description
Texture and then solder your silver sheet scraps together into a beautiful, festive tree pendant. Let your creativity run wild with this freeform design!
Required Materials:
- Sterling silver scraps
- Hard wire solder
Tools:
- Pliers
- texturing hammer
- steel bench block or small anvil
- sandpaper
- tweezers
- cheesecloth
- files
- hallmark stamp
- hammer for hallmark stamps
- cylindrical mandrels
- visual magnification
- hard (compressed) charcoal block
- oxygen barrier (boric acid and denatured alcohol)
- liquid flux
- needle-tip flux dispenser
- Smith Little Torch (oxy-propane with #7 tip)
- quench water container
- crosslock tweezers for hot silver
- pickle pot
- pickle pot tongs
- good ventilation
- good lighting
- eye protection (good goggles)
- full-face shield
- Tumble-Vibe vibratory tumbler
- stainless steel shot in tumbler with Dawn dish soap and water
- flexshaft with assorted grinding and polishing attachments
- 120 grit bristle disc or brass brush
Technique: Metalsmithing
Originally Published: Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, November 2015
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