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How to learn jewellery making?

Gold, Silver 925, Brass, Stainless steel, Copper, Zamak... Theprecious metal or notremains thebasic material of the jewellery. It allows to realize all your desires of rings, bracelets, necklaces... from metal plates or wires. It is also used to make your own jewelry primers or components for jewelry.

Are you ready to start working with metal? We have put together some technical sheets to guide you in your first steps. Find out how tohammer metal, how touse a bocfil, how tocut brazingrods, how tobraze small rings and many other techniques.Metal can seem difficult to work with. It requires patience, practice and safe, controlled movements.

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Laurence T Perles&Co
03/12/2021
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5 techniques for texturing metal without a hammer
Lucie T Perles&Co
28/10/2021
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How to use a cutter to make discs?
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22/10/2021
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How to drill a gemstone?
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22/10/2021
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How to anneal metal?
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07/10/2021
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How do you make your mounting rings? Making a cannetille
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27/09/2021
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How to use a bocil saw?
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22/09/2021
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How to hammer metal?
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02/06/2021
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How to cut brazing mat?
Lucie T Perles&Co
02/06/2021
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How to solder small rings?
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21/05/2021
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The polishing drum: how to use it to polish jewels?
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16/04/2021
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How to engrave your jewelry with the Dremel engraver?
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06/02/2018
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How to skate and polish silver and engravings to get an aged silver effect?
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16/08/2017
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How to punch metal or wood to create jewelry and objects?
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12/05/2017
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How to use EfColor overglaze powder to make jewelry?
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28/04/2017
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Make a weld easily with SOLDER PASTE
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12/09/2016
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How to create a worked piece of copper?
How to create a worked piece of copper?
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02/08/2016
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Achieve a solder on a brass setting
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23/06/2016
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Metalworking is therefore a basic jewellery technique to make your DIY costume jewellery from scratch. But before you start your projects, make sure you have all the necessary equipment, such as a caliper to measure, a compass, a scribe, a bocfil (metal saw)...
But alsotools to form wire, tools toweld, topolish, crimp, file, tools todrill, engrave or hammer.

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