Making Silver Rings At Home

Making silver jewelry at home requires specific supplies patience and practice.

Making silver rings at home.

Rings are my favorite piece of jewelry to collect wear and make. I prefer standard 8 gauge half round wire for ring making but you could use. Absolute beginners may benefit most from taking a beginning level class in silversmithing under the supervision of a professional metalworker. For a home delivered supply of inspiring silversmithing projects along with information about jewelry making tools gemstones and new gem discoveries faceting and other gem designs for the lapidary and trends in the jewelry industry all things of interest to both accomplished and aspiring jewelry makers subscribe to lapidary journal.

Silver clay is a great way to get started if you can get hold of it but you can also cut attach or mold solid sterling silver with a jeweler s saw soldering kit or hammer and anvil. Don t worry if you make a mistake or have to clean nickel silver. It s nice to have the ones that have lots of compartments and the stacking shelves because if you re using a jewelry bench they aren t always that large so you don t what to take up a bunch of room on your table or bench. Just stir in peroxide until until the gunk re removes itself from the items.

How to make silver jewelry. Download the course notes h. Using a relatively inexpensive metal and casting it in an ingot mold you can create a sophisticated design at the low price point many cash strapped consumers are looking for these days. A tall tackle box seems to work best for jewelry making especially when you take classes.

Learning how to make rings is easy and opens up endless possibilities for personalization. Welcome to this free 3 part course in how to make professional silver jewellery from home with jessica rose at jewellers academy. Start with simple ring bands or stacking rings you can make by simply combining silver wire with basic metalsmithing and texturing tools likes hammers and files.