How To Make Metal Sheet Jewelry

These base metals make beautiful and colorful artisan jewelry without the high cost of precious gold or silver.

How to make metal sheet jewelry.

Sterling silver sheet metal is excellent for making special handcrafted jewelry pieces. Piercing with a saw frame. Metal ready for hammer texturing should be clean oxide free annealed and bone dry. Anyone who wants to get started making metal jewelry must first make an investment of a few basic tools.

I used 22 gauge copper sheet from my metal scraps leftover from other jewelry projects. Draw your design on a piece of paper. Copper sheet 22 or 24 gauge at least 65mm x 40mm 2 56 x 1 57 size. When i enrolled in my first metals class i was given a list by my instructor of tools and equipment i would need to purchase.

Lay the beads out on a bead board in an appealing order. A jeweler s frame saw holds tiny blades to cut intricate shapes. Sheet metal jewelry basics saw file sand polish step 1. Trim the edges off your paper and grab a sharpie.

For the sake of ease i ll be making a pretty simple design that works. Place the sheet on a clean flat smooth steel block. Measure enough wire to make the piece of jewelry plus 6 inches for finishing. Each of my triangular copper sheet earrings measure 40mm x 35mm x 30mm 1 57 x 1 37 x 1 18.

Seal the crimp using the crimp tool s round hole. Welcome to creative sid. Forming metal involves turning flat metal sheet into three dimensional shapes for metal jewelry using methods like dapping doming raising fold forming chasing and repoussé swaging fluting etc. Choose from 20 gauge thicker and 24 gauge thinner metal sheet for piercing and sawing into custom shapes dapping doming forming into bracelet.

While you hold your pattern in place trace the edges with. Watch more how to make jewelry videos. Tape the four corners down with painter s tape or masking tape. 24 gauge and thinner sheet is very useful for metal stamping and embossing.

Attach a clasp to one end of the wire by running the wire up through a crimp through the hole in the clasp and back down through the crimp bead. Blades are held in. How to make a sheet metal pendant step 1. Make custom metal jewelry with brass copper aluminum and nickel silver sheet.