Make Open and Hollow Forms Video Download

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$39.99

Expand your jewelry making skills by learning how to make open and hollow metal forms with expert instruction from Lexi Erickson!

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Description

Join accomplished jewelry artist and teacher Lexi Erickson as she demonstrates how to make an incredible Southwestern-inspired necklace along with Native American pots and metal beads. You’ll learn a number of techniques, from very basic skills such as piercing metal, filing, and cutting a perfect circle, to more advanced silversmithing skills. This intermediate necklace project presents a variety of jewelry-making techniques you can use in future projects, and gives lots of tips and tricks for your own creative growth. These techniques can be used for chains, earrings, bracelets and rings, not just the pictured necklace. Lexi also shows you how to use several tools which are unusual to the jewelry studio.

Download your digital copy today to:

  • Add Texture and dimension to your jewelry projects.
  • Learn how to solder dapped shapes together to create beads and metal domes.
  • Discover tips and tricks for removing and neutralizing pickle after soldering your beads together.
  • Create a variety of different looks using hand finishing techniques and patinas.
  • And more!

About the Expert:

Lexi Erickson is a Contributing Editor for Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist and Jewelry Making Daily. Lexi has a Master’s Degree in Jewelry Design and Fabrication and has also studied with some of the leading teachers from the US and Canada. She has been teaching high school through university level jewelry courses for 30 years, and she’s known as the "Queen of Soldering". Her favorite quote is "A day without soldering is a day without sunshine." She lives in Denver, Colorado, with her family and a large menagerie of puppies and kitties.

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Product Type

Video Download
Author/Designer

Lexi Erickson
SKU

EP13432

1 review for Make Open and Hollow Forms Video Download

  1. SUSAN_F (verified owner) –

    The title of the video is misleading. The title should be something to the effect of “Designing and Making a Southwestern-style Necklace.” Most of the video is spent discussing the steps in creating a necklace using Southwestern motifs. Very little time is actually spent teaching how to make hollow forms. Not much of the time spent soldering the hollow forms is tight, up-close video. I found myself really wanting to see a close-up of adding the solder when making the hollow bead but that bit of video was shot from far away. Part of the soldering portion was shot from above while other parts were too far away; it was inconsistent.
    I was really wanting to learn additional techniques in soldering hollow form beads of various shapes. Unfortunately and despite the title, this video did not provide that.
    ***At the end of the video, Ms. Erickson reviews what was taught: Making a metal dome to use as a “cabochon”, bezel setting, creating overlay finishes (sweat soldering), creating textures, making chain, dapping, and creating a tiny Native American-style pot. If you would like to learn about those things, this is the video for you.

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