Silver and Stone Overlay Pendant

This project develops skills in sawing, pierce-work, overlay, sweat soldering, bezel-making, stone setting, and finishing techniques. You can adapt it to different shaped pendants with different pierced-work patterns to complement your stone. The illustrated pendant has a hook, rather [ … ] Read More

Silver Primer

Easily worked with a variety of finishes and adaptable to many styles, silver is a favourite jewellery metal. Silver is one of the three most popular jewellery metals, the others being gold and platinum. Among amateurs who enjoy making [ … ] Read More

Silver

Silver is a unique member of the metals family -the “whitest” of all metals. In its pure form this moon-coloured metal is highly lustrous, and can be polished to a mirror finish. Silver was known and used by primitive [ … ] Read More

The Beauty of COPPER and BRASS

COPPER and BRASS are wonderful alternative metals for jewellery making!  The price of precious metals can be prohibitive for jewellery making, but equally important are the wonderful qualities of Copper and Brass (an alloy of copper and zinc).  Copper [ … ] Read More