Testing the new workstation setup for filming the process of making.
I have many jewelry designs but this is one of the most loved design by my private friends network. (Many pairs still stuck not being posted yet, please bear with me!)
Unedited, as raw as it can gets: The making of ear jacket earrings, part one.
(Might not have subsequent parts, though, if this free video tutorial is not gaining enough Likes haha.)
I filmed this video while my 5 months old baby was taking his morning nap, so please excuse me if you couldn't hear me clearly, you may leave a comment or write to me to ask me if you need to know anything.
I set my own stones so I get to choose the colors of the stones I use for my projects, recently I have been working on one of my larger commissioned bridal project (Handmade Bridal Statement Necklace) and setting stone is one of the process.
To set stone, I use a rectangle block and then I pierce a navette shape hole so that I could stay put Navette settings and set the stone in.
Material:
- 1 x 6x3mm Navette Setting
- 1 x 6x3mm Navette Stone
Ready made or pre-set Navette Settings and Swarovski Navette 6x3mm beads: http://etsy.me/1JMxKWx
(The links included in this post are affiliate links. Which means if you click and make a purchase I will earn a small percentage of the sale price. Thanks for your support!)
I am super excited to announce this - that I have finally finalized and uploaded a new Wire Jewelry Tutorial to YouTube. I didn't expect myself to have taken so long to have this uploaded, but because I can only work on this when kids are taking their naps (and if I managed to stay awake after they dozed off), and after they finally call it a day at night.
My recent fav quote: Simplicity is never simple.
In order to make this pair of simple looking earrings, you might need to anticipate some fair bit of practice, though I do hope you enjoy it!
Leave me a comment of what you think! :)
Corra @ de Cor's
I posted a topic asking what do I do with the silver dust left on my bench the other day in Wire Wrapped Jewelry Artist facebook group, and everyone suggested me to collect them and wait for it to accumulate, then sell it back to Rio's or melt it to create something. I never really had to collect silver dust until I started to drill my silver wires and blanks, using metal sheet puncher will leads to some silver bits for me to collect too, and I figure picking them up from the bench might be a little tricky because these silver dust or bits will get into those holes on my wooden bench.
So I took this opportunity to recycle two of my ST. DALFOUR 1 Ounce Jars to collect my silver bits and silver dust.
Here's the video - please excuse the fan spinning sound at the background, I was using an USB fan near my workbench lol.
P/S: I put a ceramic plate on top of my wooden work bench before start drilling my silver pieces just in case the hand-twist drill will drill through the wooden workbench and the wood dust mixed up with the silver dust.
This tutorial is a tribute to the Handmade Wire Jewelry and Craft Community and strictly NOT FOR SALE. Instructions are for personal use only. Any attempt on reuse of this document’s text, pictures or any resources without the author's authorization is strictly prohibited.
You CAN teach the technique to others once you learn the technique; you CAN NOT use text nor pictures from this tutorial as teaching material to teach others.
You CAN produce this Crystal Flower once you learned the techniques; you CAN NOT reproduce the EXACT Crystal Flower for sale, but you can make them as gift to your friends and family – you get the idea. You CAN create your own Crystal Flower with your own designs/colors/materials, by applying the techniques introduced in this tutorial for sale, but yourself must make it instead of your employees.
3.2 X 6” of 30ga silver wires
(note: you will have 4” of wastage for each wires, but 6” works best for me,
you may cut a shorter wires but I would suggest not shorter than 4” each so
that there’s room for your fingers to work.)
Draw two squares on
to the blank. This is to help to determine where to punch the holes.
The sheet metal
puncher will probably leave a mark on your blanks so to avoid that, use a small
piece (5mm X 5mm) of card to do the trick.
Get
ready to punch through the card.
Punch through the
card firmly.
Leave the card on the
puncher.
Position the tip of
the puncher at the crossed point of two straight lines.
Punch through the Silver Stamping Blank firmly.
Overview of the sterling silver blank with a
punched hole.
The small piece of card will fall off the
puncher and this can complicate stuff so to make things easier, I use 3m
Micropore Surgical Tape (1/2") to stay put the card, why 3M? Because I
find that other tapes will leave some sticky leftover on my pliers and I don’t
want that, I don’t have that issue with 3M’s product.
Get ready to punch the rest of holes.
Overview: Punch holes
on the rest of crossed straight lines, you will have total of 8 holes on this
metal blank. Don’t throw away those silver dust, collect and keep them, you may
be able to trade it in for new silver if you accumulated lots of them.Step 2: Filing and Polising Sterling Silver Blanks
File the punched area to make them smooth,
make sure they doesn’t cut/ catches the skins.
All filed and smoothen.
Polish your silver stamping blanks to remove those
lines. I use Shine
Rite Silver Polish Polishing Cloth (8 X 5 Inches) to restore it’s shines
before moving on to the next step.Step 3: Attaching Swarovski Chaton Montees onto the Sterling Silver Stamping Blanks
Pick up your 6” of 30ga wires, fold half, and thread it through the Chaton Montees as shown in
the picture.
Hold the right wires with your non-dominant’s
index and middle finger, bring the left wires go on top of the right wires, threat it through the holes via the exit
of the right wires, and then bring the wires out via the initial exit of the
left wires.
Close up view.
Gently pull the left wires out and minimize
the loop.
Repeat the same process for the other set of
holes.
Overview: wires in tack now.
Orient the Chaton Montees as shown in the
picture, we are going to work on those holes without threaded wires. Bring the
left wires of to go on top of right wires, bring the wires back out through the
same initial exit hole.
Overview:
Rotate the Chaton Montees to have the un-threaded wires on top.
Repeat the process of threading the wires.
Now all holes have exiting wires, and 4
small loops.
Place the Chaton
Montees right at the center of the Silver Stamping Blank, thread all wires to
the back of the Silver Stamping Blank via alternate hole.
Now we are going to attach the Chaton Montees
onto the Silver Stamping Blanks. You may start at any Chaton Montees you want. Bring the wires to the front via the next hole
on the right.
Pull the wires out
completely.
Thread the wires through the Chaton Montees’
hole as shown in the picture.Tips: Point the wires-end upwards when threading it out from the hole while pressing the rest
of wires down, otherwise threading the wires out could be quite challenging.
Gently
pull the wires out.
The green circle area is where the previous
step ends; red circle is where we are going to work on now.NOTE:
Always work
diagonally to increase the chance of having the Chaton Montees to sit right at
the center of the Silver Stamping Blanks.
Chaton Montees is now
attached onto the Silver Stamping Blanks.
Side view.
Now we have 4 sets of loops attaching the
Chaton Montees, we are going to use all the wires to coil 3 times on the right
wires of it’s left loop; you may start from any wires you want. To coil, bring the wires underneath the right wires of the left loop.
Coil 3 times.
IMPORTANT: When coiling, the wires on the left might get
pulled out, making the loop bigger than it needs to be, so please remember to
fix this by pulling the exiting wires of the hole before proceeding to the next
coiling process.
Go around to repeat
the process, remember to pull the exiting wires before coiling onto the wires.
Trim away the excess
wires with your flush cutter, or, waggle the wires to break (Here’s the video
on how to break the wires naturally:
Project Completed.
All yours now, go and make something beautiful and have fun! :)
to collect my silver bits and silver dust.
