Silversmithing Techniques from Jewelry Making Daily:
3 Free Silver Jewelry Making Projects

Improve your skills as a jewelry making silversmith while you create an outstanding silver pendant, ring, and pin. In this new Jewelry Making Daily free eBook, available for download today, you will discover three silver jewelry making projects packed with valuable information to help guide you further into the art of silversmithing. Whether you’re into making silver jewelry for yourself or friends, or to create custom silver jewelry to sell, you’ll find Silversmithing Techniques from Jewelry Making Daily: 3 Free Silver Jewelry Making Projects a valuable reference and source of inspiration. With silver sheet, silver jewelry findings, and basic silver jewelry making supplies, you’ll be sure to hone your silversmithing skills as you re-create these outstanding pieces. You can also use any of the projects in this terrific free eBook as a springboard to develop a unique silver jewelry design of your own.

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The silversmith experts from Jewelry Making Daily have put together the perfect eBook for all those silversmithing fanatics out there. In John Leeds’ project you will learn to create a hammered sterling silver frame that will set off any cabochon with distinction. You will also create a decorative backing for the stone using jump rings. Follow Elizabeth Tokoly’s silver jewelry making directions to make a sterling silver ring. You will use only the basic techniques of forming, soldering and filing, but this project is far from basic. It will challenge you to use these classic silversmiths’ skills with precision as you bring out the design’s unique texture. For a keepsake piece, try Julie Jerman-Melka’s silversmithing project. This third project will teach you how to set an unusual freeform focal: a bit of old china. You’ll learn how to work an irregular shape into a pleasing design as well as enhance the antique look with liver of sulfur, fabricate your own pin stem, and set a half-drilled button pearl.

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The silver jewelry making projects in this free eBook each include detailed illustrations, along with step-by-step instructions, a list of needed silversmithing supplies and a list of required and optional silversmith tools.

Silversmith Technique #1

Kentucky Agate Pendant by John Leeds

Encircle a striking cab with a hammered silver frame

Enjoy selecting the perfect stone for this silver jewelry design. You can create this pendant from rough stone to finished custom silver jewelry, or you can start with a finished cabochon and do the metalwork yourself. The way the silver bail is tacked to the pendant creates a dynamic composition, allowing the pendant to swing and the stone to naturally float inside the textured silver frame. In addition, the jump rings backing in this silver jewelry making project give the piece an interesting visual surprise as well as clever structural support. Skills you will need to successfully follow John’s instructions are hammering, soldering and torch control. Laser welding and lapidary skills are both optional.

Silversmith Technique #2

Bamboo Silver Ring by Elizabeth Ann Tokoly

Mimic bamboo with precise filing

This classic, elegant silver ring project uses simple techniques like forming, soldering and filing, but demands a degree of proficiency and attention that can challenge the beginner or advanced beginner silversmiths. After the ring is formed and soldered, the bamboo texture is slowly revealed through scoring and filing. The design echoes the vintage styles of several well-known silver jewelry making houses. Once mastered, the bamboo effect may also be used for other silver jewelry making projects like bracelets, earrings, flatware handles or handbag hardware. The detailed instructions, along with the helpful photographs, will ensure any silversmith to succeed with this silversmithing technique. The bamboo motif gives this versatile design a vintage look that works equally well in contemporary stack rings.

Silversmith Technique #3

Pottery Shard Brooch by Julie Jerman-Melka

A nostalgic keepsake from a broken dinner plate

Do you enjoy the challenge of making silver jewelry using found objects and incorporating them into a wearable masterpiece? This project will teach you how to recycle found objects or pieces of something special to you that may have broken over the years, like a cup or plate, and make them into a simple brooch. You will learn to manipulate sterling silver, making a bezel that holds your selected pottery shard. The final patina color is achieved by using a solution of liver of sulfur and warm water. To add a personal touch to her silver jewelry design, Julie made her own pin mechanism instead of choosing from commercial sterling silver jewelry findings. This project also includes tips from the artist on selecting your sterling silver jewelry making supplies.

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Silversmithing Techniques from Jewelry Making Daily:
3 Free Silver Jewelry Making Projects!

Have you been scanning the web for silversmithing courses? Don’t waste another minute! Download this free eBook from the silversmithing experts at Jewelry Making Daily, and embark on an entirely new silver jewelry making experience. Learn to use all different types of silversmith tools that will enhance your silver jewelry making abilities.