Designing with a Shape Necklace, Cuff, Ring & Brooch Project Download

Description

Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist Senior Editor, Helen I. Driggs, shares her expert advice for using versions of an identical outline to form a complementary collection of metal jewelry. See steps for making a concho necklace with colorful yarn, a recycled leather cuff with faux coral branch, a copper and sterling ring, and a copper and kimono silk brooch.

Required Materials:

• Copper wire and sheet; varies with each design
• Additional items, such as kimono silk and colorful yarn; varies with each design

Tools:

• For Concho Necklace with Colorful Yarn:
• Jeweler’s saw
• file
• metal design stamps
• wood forming block
• hammer
• For Recycled Leather Cuff with Faux Coral Branch:
• Leather punch
• X-acto knife
• tapestry needle
• jeweler’s saw
• file
• metal design stamps
• wood forming block
• hammer
• For Copper and Sterling Ring:
• Jeweler’s saw
• file
• metal design stamps
• wood forming block
• hammer
• torch setup
• ring mandrel
• For Copper and Kimono Silk Brooch:
• Jeweler’s saw
• file
• metal design stamps
• wood forming block
• hammer
• torch set up

Technique: Metalsmithing

Originally Published: Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, November 2015