Hope!! How To Brand A Boho Chic Soldered Crystal Betoken Ring
I but finished making this awesome telephone for my missy Erica, who had asked me to brand her a Boho manner amethyst crystal signal ring.
I snapped a few photos during the process, hence I idea I'd percentage them hither amongst you. This is non a complete, measure step-by-step tutorial, but but a uncomplicated glimpse into the procedure that volition perhaps offering you lot some creative inspiration!
Soldering level: Beginner to Intermediate
Materials & tools needed:
- 1 large crystal signal or other similar rough-cut stone bead amongst a center-drilled hole
- Silver or copper wire (whatever guess fits through the hole inward your bead, twenty guess or eighteen gauge)
- Ring mandrel or circular object the size of your finger to shape the telephone around
- Nylon jaw pliers for straightening the wire
- Wire cutters
- Soldering tools (silver lead-free jewelry solder, flux, soldering iron, etc. - if you lot are unfamiliar amongst soldering or demand to know what materials or exact tools to use, see my majority Boho Chic Jewelry for my consummate recommended soldering fix together with tools list!)
Choose a crystal or stone oil cutting gemstone stone amongst a center-drilled hole. You tin also usage whatever type of large stone bead for this project.
First you lot volition demand to shape your wire inward the shape of a circle to exercise the shank of the ring. Use your nylon jaw pliers to straighten a length of copper or silvery wire - I used virtually 12 to fourteen inches of copper wire for this ring. Straighten the wire acre it is on the spool together with hence cutting the wire amongst your wire cutters.
Shape the shank of the telephone (form the circle): Hold i cease of the wire against your telephone mandrel at the desired telephone size marker on the mandrel together with usage your other paw to wind the wire snugly roughly the mandrel 2 times. If you lot exercise non convey a telephone mandrel you lot tin usage whatever circular shaped object that is the size of your finger (maybe a lipstick metro or other similar sized object). Then carefully take the wire from the mandrel.
Hold the wire circles that you lot but formed inward house amongst your soldering pliers together with usage your other paw to solder the wire rings together amongst a pocket-size amount of solder, coating the wires on all sides together with binding them to each other amongst solder.
Next, thread your bead onto the long tail cease of your wire together with force the bead downwards the wire until it is level against your ring's shank.
Bring the tail cease of wire that traveled through the bead downwards toward the ring's shank together with concur it against the ring's shank. Use a driblet of solder to attach the tail of wire to the ring's shank equally shown inward the photograph above.
Your telephone should straight off await something similar this.
Now slide the telephone dorsum onto the mandrel together with carefully wind the long tail cease of wire roughly the mandrel over again until all of the wire is used up. If you lot convey excess wire you lot tin snip the remaining wire off amongst your wire cutters. Tuck the pointy cease of wire into the other wire wraps (try to enshroud the end).
Remove the telephone from the mandrel together with straight off solder the residuum of the wires together, adding to a greater extent than solder equally needed, until all of the wires are completely soldered together together with your telephone is formed (photo below).
If desired, add together a few pocket-size droplets of decorative solder to the telephone equally I did inward the photograph above.
Once you lot are finished, brand certain in that place are no pointy ends of wire anywhere on your ring. If in that place are, encompass them upwards amongst a pocket-size driblet of solder.
Wash, dry, polish, together with taste your ring!
I promise you lot enjoyed this mini-tutorial! Check out my books Boho Chic Jewelry together with Soldered Alchemy for tons of fun jewelry soldering projects, all kinds of soldering information, beautiful jewelry together with soldering inspiration!
I promise you lot convey a non bad week!
Love,
Laura
Jewelry design, article together with images ©Laura Beth Love 2016 all rights reserved.
Project for personal usage only. Commercial usage forbidden nether police without the limited written permission of the copyright holder.
Project for personal usage only. Commercial usage forbidden nether police without the limited written permission of the copyright holder.