How To Make A Cuff Bracelet Out Of Copper Sheet

The cuff bracelet timeless and classic.

How to make a cuff bracelet out of copper sheet.

How to cover a brass cuff in lillypilly copper sheets duration. Use your jeweler s saw or tin snips to cut out your bracelet metal. I use a large file. Each blank measures 1 3 4 wide and 6 long.

How to make a rustic cuff bracelet. 7 000 year old metal cuffs have been found in egypt. How to make bracelet out of copper pipe tubing. Cuffs do not have to be sized too precisely so this is a great beginner project.

1 75 x 6 these are unfinished. Cuff bracelet fabricating allows you to use basic skills in several areas such as forming annealing stamping texturing and finishing. Get a large diameter piece of steel or iron tube for your mandrel. Use sharp overlapping strikes along the width of the copper to start the copper curving.

As simple or complex as you want it to be cuff bracelets are one of the oldest pieces of jewelry in human history. Cuff bracelets were also popular with the ancient greeks romans indians byzantines chinese mayans incans and aztecs. Your bracelet should now look like this. Sold per dozen these copper cuff bracelet blanks are made from solid 20 gauge copper.

You do not have to apply much pressure as again the copper is soft. I tried it in my oven at max temp maybe 270 290 degree celcius it did bring the copper to the surface but still didn t harden. First get out your piece of sheet metal. Making cuff bracelets is a great project for budding metalsmiths.

Use your ruler and super fine sharpie pen to mark your bracelet measurements on your metal sheet. Gently start to file the corers follow the length of the blank and start to smooth the corners. With the corners cut i want to smooth them out. Apply a little pressure and smooth.

It will look much smoother when you are completed. They will come with a pvc plastic film on one or both sides to protect the surface peel before use if desired or before applying heat. I m using copper for this tutorial.