Hand Stamped Silver Jewellery
Learn to make personalised silver hand stamped jewellery in this 30 minute FREE tutorial with Jessica Rose
Introduction:
Make your own beautiful hand stamped jewellery in this fun FREE video tutorial complete with your own set of downloadable course notes.
Learn to make the metal blanks to work from, how to sand-down a lovely curved shape in sterling silver, how to prepare the metal before stamping and how to finish your piece with a lovely silver chain.
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What can I Make?
A full selection of hand stamped pieces. Once you learn the basics there will be no stopping you.
Your Instructor
Jessica Rose is a jewellery designer-maker and the Founder of Jewellers Academy and of the award-winning London Jewellery School, which was Europe's largest independent jewellery training company. One of her first jewellery businesses was a metal clay fingerprint jewellery business so who better to share these techniques with you. Jess is extremely passionate about jewellery making and spends most of her time supporting jewellers to run their own successful jewellery businesses.
Course Curriculum
Tools and Materials:
For stamping:
- Steel block (or can use steel top of the bench peg
- Metal letter stamps/ patterned stamps/ number stamps/ any stamps you like
- Masking tape
- Black felt-tip/ marker pen
- Hammer or mallet
- Scrap metal for practicing on (copper or brass squares are good)
- Scotch-Bite cleaning pad
- Steel block (or bench peg with steel bench top)
For creating your own silver shapes to stamp on (blanks):
- Silver sheet: 0.7mm thick, 6cm long and 0.8mm wide.
- Benchpeg
- Needle File or large hand file
- Buff Stick or emery paper
- Jewellers saw and blade (necessary if you are going to be cutting a shape out of your silver before stamping)
- Firing brick
- Torch
- Tweezers
- Pyrex or heatproof glass blow and water (for cooling down metal) not essential
For finishing the necklace:
- Punching tool
- Pinion hand drill or pin vise
- 1mm drill bit
- 18 inch silver chain,
- 2 silver jumprings (6mm),
- side cutting pliers, flat nosed pliers and chain nosed pliers
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