It's just to show I make twisted copper bracelets. This one is Viking style. I used 3mm and 1mm copper wires.
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@pacoblancosmith5 жыл бұрын
Excellent work. I only work in recycled copper materials and love this style of twisted cuff! Thanks for sharing!!
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@charley4083 жыл бұрын
LOVE IT! especially the stamped paddled ends!
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Thanks 😊
@theinvisiblequeen5 жыл бұрын
Great project. If you use locking plyers to hold while you twist, I've found its easier to keep the twist even and tight. I've also used 2 locking plyers, one on each end (if you don't have a vice available.) Try a 6 or 8 gauge wire (6 is heavier, 8 is lighter, 10 is even lighter but works well too for bracelets. I get my wire from Home Depot, electrical dept, on a spool they cut it for you. Cheap, easy to work.) for the base. Flatten the whole length, but do the extra spread for one end. Then, holding this just after the spread in a non marring jaws of your vice (heavy piece of scrap leather works well) you can just twist the center part till you reach the right length and then do the flat for the other end. This is a nice looking style. If you're a stamper, try hammering it flat first, stamp symbols or words, and then twist the center part. Another variation is soldering the end of a pair of smaller wires (already twisted and slightly flattened or not as you like) wind this 'in the groove' of the twist of the flattened 6 gauge wire. I just cut and solder the ends of the small twist to size when I reach the end. But be sure to curve it into a bracelet before cutting the small braid to size! Using brass wire for the smaller twist can also add visual interest. Have fun!
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the advices 🙂 is there any place where I could have a look at your creations?
@theinvisiblequeen5 жыл бұрын
@@AmberWolfWorkshop got some of my regular silver jewelry on Etsy at CraftyFoxArtworks. Go to Etsy, plug the name in as shown in their search bar. I've got about 30 different styles in copper bracelets but a bit more to do till they go up there. Been a jeweler since '86. I was apprenticed 1st to a blacksmith, then an art jeweler, then a small production jeweler. Love to teach and write articles. Haven't done anything on KZfaq yet, probably should, but videos I've never done. I'm a designer, artist craftsman, sculptor/carver. Damn I just like to make things! You know what I mean. I work in leather, ceramics, wood, horn, bone and antler as well as stone, metal, cloth and I often combine them. Makes it more interesting!
@elsieberrios75593 жыл бұрын
@@theinvisiblequeen wow you are a pro! Congrats!
@Canal_Millennium.oficial Жыл бұрын
Lindo bracelete , bom trabalho , like e compartilhamento
@wwm845 жыл бұрын
0:17 pic under the lamp: classy af
@AMM186914 жыл бұрын
Yeah, those were some pretty specific instructions
@gargoyleking5293 жыл бұрын
P
@adaholmes92105 жыл бұрын
Nice, love the anvil.
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
Yeah the anvil is lovely 🙂 I was lucky to get it.
@dalemills79262 жыл бұрын
BEAUTIFUL work !
@AmberWolfWorkshop2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@MmelaLune4 жыл бұрын
So beautiful !! I love it !
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@dopple72464 жыл бұрын
Nice work.
@threecio3 жыл бұрын
Excelente trabajo !! Que tipo de Sulfuro usas para la patina?
@eldenixavier93615 жыл бұрын
Amigo ficou lindo, parabéns pelo trabalho...
@andregomes77322 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I was studying how to make a very similar piece with silver. But the thin wire will be twisted too. Great job!!!
@AmberWolfWorkshop2 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@Paulie123211 ай бұрын
Beautiful 😍
@faridabdullah93065 жыл бұрын
Amazing ✋ artwork
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙂
@juliocesargarciaaldana22563 жыл бұрын
Me gusto este trabajo felicitaciones...
@whiskywillie5 жыл бұрын
Craftsmanship at its best! 👍
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
Thanks :)
@lucasrafael1323 жыл бұрын
Daora, vou fazer um tbm.
@esliet5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@denvernow72943 жыл бұрын
Great job. The bright lights in the background make it hard to watch the video for very long. And overhead or 45 degree downward view is ideal for this though. People want to see what you're doing, not (sings) blinded by the lighttttt. I love the ASMR aspect. And again, nice bracelet.
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!
@venust.41193 жыл бұрын
Cool!
@superjew61764 жыл бұрын
You said you used 4 wires but i can only see 2 thick wires at the start and them 1 thinner wire, could you point out where you used the 4th please?
@blackthornknives2 жыл бұрын
Very nice work
@AmberWolfWorkshop2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@valkobranislav3 жыл бұрын
Pekná práca...
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Dziękuję!
@karolciezkiewicz32325 жыл бұрын
Viking back in action! :) Polecam wkretarke do skrecania takiego ;)
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
Cieńsze druty jak najbardziej, grubsze wolę ręcznie.
@ironninja98734 жыл бұрын
Parabéns pelo trabalho ! How much copper wires do you use ?
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
4
@WilliamComer-hv6dy2 ай бұрын
What substance are you putting on ends of wire to solder?
@rhaven503 жыл бұрын
Nice
@darencook67274 жыл бұрын
Does the metal have to be super clean before melting it with just flux?
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
I don't make it super clean
@gabrielamoraes83115 жыл бұрын
Omg I want
@WilliamComer-hv6dy2 ай бұрын
Length of wire and gauge of wire?
@jameshorrocks29395 жыл бұрын
What type of gas did you use to melt the ends together? Flux?
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
Yep, flux. I can't remember it's some kind of mixture. I will try to remember to check tomorrow when I will be in the workshop.
@rogerthomas738 Жыл бұрын
What type of Flux to you aply
@benblis41794 жыл бұрын
Where did you get your triangle stamps? Those are cool!!!
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
My mate made them hi is a blacksmith. Any good blacksmith should be capable of making those.
@SlowPersuit4 жыл бұрын
at 3.13 you dump the copper in a bottle with Oksyda written on it, then into what looks like water. IS that a pickle" effectively- putting it direct into the pure mixture then into water to complete a clean up? Or is it a copper darkener or something. (I notice the translation comes out as " Oksyda "- huh? Obviously rooted in oxidisation but hey...).
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
Oksyda is something like liver of sulphur. Thank I dip it in to water mixed with soda to neutralize liver of sulphur
@SlowPersuit4 жыл бұрын
@@AmberWolfWorkshop oh ok liver of sulphur produces a patina so darkens the copper. Nice one!
@lisacumberland70245 жыл бұрын
Beautiful thank you!
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 🙂
@andybenson13434 жыл бұрын
nice share
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@charley4083 жыл бұрын
Damn it, I need my copper wire twisted like that! Can you come twist mine, lol!?!?
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Sure I can :)
@riwar71905 жыл бұрын
What type of flux and gas are you using. Great job! I'm just starting out with copper.
@catzkeet48605 жыл бұрын
hes using borax. a borax cone with a little water to be exact
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
Ye, borax. And normal plumbers torch.
@elsieberrios75593 жыл бұрын
@@AmberWolfWorkshop what does the borax do?
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Borax is essential for soldering
@tauisuitonu85052 жыл бұрын
@@elsieberrios7559 dip your finger in boron/borax a couple of times and eat it. It helps our bones, and helps our creaky hands work again and stop aching. It’s just a mineral we need and don’t get. Waaay off topic, sorry. Beautiful bracelet.
@callummcarthur1994 жыл бұрын
So you know roughly how thick the copper in this was, I know it's an old video so thanks of you reply
@HandyLady4 жыл бұрын
It looks like thick wire from electrical cable.
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
I think it was 2 or 3mm
@TheBeardx165 жыл бұрын
Cool channel bro subbed
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
Thanks 🙂 I just subbed yours as well 🙂 I saw few videos I will check out after work
@TheBeardx165 жыл бұрын
@@AmberWolfWorkshop cool thanks us bearded brothers need to stick together lol
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
Hahaha yeah that's right!
@sammiller984 жыл бұрын
Are you forge welding the ends together or did you use some type of solder?
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
No solder used
@elsieberrios75593 жыл бұрын
I guessing,he melted the ends and stopped at certain point before it breaks and separates to then flattened.
@SlowPersuit2 жыл бұрын
Ive tried melting the ends (as I see others have)- you say it takes a gas fitters torch? Ive tried a standard torch with butane- didn't get hot enough. Tried an expensive jewellers one, same. Bought a high temp MAPP torch- same again. Checking on line, apparently copper melts at 2000 degrees, MAPP only reaches 1400, butane less? The next 'torch technology' up is MAPP/ oxy mix- which gets to the 2000 degrees required- is this what you mean?
@AmberWolfWorkshop2 жыл бұрын
Well what can I say... As you can see I managed to fuse it...
@SlowPersuit2 жыл бұрын
@@AmberWolfWorkshop yes - I would love to see what you were using at 2.22! I seriously can't afford 60e plus for twin gas system, but I have poured 2/3 of a can of mapp gas in & can't get it to fuse! The only thing is I haven't got a borax cone so I've been using normal flux - and anyway that's an impurity thing isn't it?
@dickalyn4 жыл бұрын
I appreciate your video and your work! I tried and tried but the ends won't fuse together.
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I had some problems when I was trying for the first few times. Don't give up 😉
@toforgetisagem87974 жыл бұрын
Sticking my nose on where it might not be wanted again. But I hope this might help you if I am not teaching you eggs sucking. Make sure your metal is clean, give the ends you are soldering a quick run with grit paper to get shiny metal if you have heated it at any time pickle it. (That means soaking g it in a mild acid you can find the how to on jewellery making sites) when you put the rods together they must touch. Solder can not jump. If the metal is round, just run a file over it to make a flat surface so the metal can touch flush. Put the flux on these flat sides and put the solder between the rods and just a little into the grooves. The metal is bonded together with the help of the flux. Solder will run when heat is applied but the bond will be where the flux is. The metal won"t bond if it is not fluxed (metal will fuse with heat but that is another story for another time) Solder follows the heat so be careful to heat only the ends and down the over the edges you are soldering not the whole rod. Look up how a torch flame works. I struggled to solder because I tried to heat the solder with the tip of the torch and couldn"t do it. The flame is hottest just in front of the blue cone. Once you put the torch onto to the metal do not be tempted to take it off to have a quick peek. This will cause oxides to build up and then metal just gets mycky and nothing happens. Have patience. It will take time. The metal goes yellow and then red and solder suddenly flows. Take the touch off immediately or the metal will melt. Soldering is about good process and practice. It takes time to get used to the pace of it. It seemed to take for ever and then happens all at once. It is not easy to learn by yourself because you need to see the red yellow change. A nano second as the solder is beginning to move you might see what is called is called the solder flash, it is a fleeting bright glint. If you can get a jeweller to show you. But keep trying. Once you get it you will not forget it and making jewellery is a great skill that is dying out
@toforgetisagem87974 жыл бұрын
PS a quick word about solder. Look up the different solder types there are three jewellers solders. It is not the stuff welders use. You probably know this. But just in case you didn"t I thought I would mention it. Anyway. When get you get the strip put it through a roller untill it is about half its depth or hammer it thinner. Cut the pallions (bits to you and me) into small, like small bits. If you put big bits on your work it takes too long to flow and the metal tends to melt first or it will roll into a tiny irritating little ball that sits there just to annoy you. Good soldering.
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tips. I didn't solder anything in here. Just fuse the ends together.
@toforgetisagem87974 жыл бұрын
@@AmberWolfWorkshop I am sorry. I did not mean to be the precocious brat in the class. I thought I was responding to a comment in the comments section to someone who was struggling to with soldering. It is obvious from your video that you know what you are doing. I came here to learn from you. I hope you do not think I wa implying you can"t do it. I was hoping to help a fellow jeweller. I learn from you, I pass on my learning. And do on. I was hoping too that because you were not using solder techniques that those who came here might benefit from help. I really do not want you to think I was trying to undermine you. Quite the contrary. I have just made a torc cuff with three two strand twists because of your help. Thanks for your reply and thanks for your help. I do not know about you, but my wrists ache from all that twisting.
@HandyLady4 жыл бұрын
My daughter's just salvaged lots of copper wire and rod from electrical cables so we might have a go at making something like this.
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
Yeah go for it!!
@jorundr1907Ай бұрын
Orientujesz się może czym zaczernić mosiądz?
@parkerparris6432 жыл бұрын
do you have any advice for forging the ends?
@AmberWolfWorkshop2 жыл бұрын
Just don't give up and keep on trying 😉
@azharalam6595 жыл бұрын
Sir I want to ask that how 6wire will be twisted
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
I have never made that kind of bracelet out of 6 wires but I can imagine in the same way.
@nobackhands4 жыл бұрын
Please explain...why add a third wire when you can twist three at one time...
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
I'm just showing how I make it. If you think twisting 4 wires at a time will work than go for it. I have never tried doing it your way so I don't know if it will work or not.
@TheMotownPhilly4 жыл бұрын
What gauge wire was that? Looked like 12 or maybe 14?
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
3 mm if I remember correctly .
@runevahl72132 жыл бұрын
Co nakładsz pędzlem na druty przed zakuciem?
@AmberWolfWorkshop2 жыл бұрын
Borax
@arcticjeep4 жыл бұрын
use a drill so much easier
@alchemykitchen7772 жыл бұрын
what is the "Oksyda" you dip it in? Is it ferric chloride acid, or a chemical patina? Ah, just googled it, blueing solution.
@AmberWolfWorkshop2 жыл бұрын
I believed it's called liver of sulphur in English
@arterynosferatu6723 жыл бұрын
🦅
@markheppleston11174 жыл бұрын
are you fusing the ends together?
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
Yes
@darencook67274 жыл бұрын
Are you using solder to fuse the ends, or simply torching the copper together with flux on it? Can this be done with a propane Coleman style torch head?
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
I only use flux. Any torch which is powerful enough will do the job I guess.
@janfousek54193 жыл бұрын
What is that chemicals you used please? Awesome work btw.
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. It was something like liver of sulphur it's called oksyda in Polish.
@janfousek54193 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for reply. Yes i searched the internet and found how is this acid called in czech. I have to make 30 vikings bracelets for kids on summer camp. So its gonna be fun. :D
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Welcome. Just make sure to read about that chemical. It's toxic so you have to follow some safety rules. Especially when you will be working with kids. Good luck!
@janfousek54193 жыл бұрын
Dont worry i already read about this acid and safety rules. And there wont be any kids when i will be making the bracelets. Thanks and have a nice day!
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Nice one. Have nice day.
@narcissamiller76763 жыл бұрын
Cool to watch, but why no explanations 😥?
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Thanks 😊 It's just to show how it was made, it's not a tutorial video sorry.
@samuelabe83083 жыл бұрын
I tried, can't melt the wire together to make beautifuls plate like you
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear that. Don't give up and keep on trying 🙃 Rome wasn't build in a day 😉
@samuelabe83083 жыл бұрын
@@AmberWolfWorkshop i won't give up thank you 😊
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
@@samuelabe8308 Maybe try more powerful torch?
@pablomeczystolec23535 жыл бұрын
Czy to znalezisko z Nowogrodu ?
@AmberWolfWorkshop5 жыл бұрын
Nic mi na ten temat nie wiadomo. Po prostu zrobiłem co miałem w głowie bazując na tych wszystkich znaleziskach na jakie się napatrzalem przez lata w reko 🙂
@meggweeg70053 жыл бұрын
thick copper? looked hard to cut..damn. ha ha and u look strong, i may my tin snips! angle grinder!!
@andoriannationalist37383 жыл бұрын
Why would you not do this but with gold? Make me one. I will send you the material and pay for the work.
@@AmberWolfWorkshop hi Michal, sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. I would like to order one! How long before I can get one?
@AmberWolfWorkshop4 жыл бұрын
Hi. No worries. I could make one this week. Can you let me know she length of the bracelet from one end to another please. Also if you prefer we can talk on facebook or instagram. You can find me under that name: amber wolf workshop
@stanlfshr4 жыл бұрын
@@AmberWolfWorkshop Facebook :)
@user-dc1ko9fl6u Жыл бұрын
КРУТО, ЭТО ЖЕ ЛЕЧЕБНОЕ, ВЫ ПРАДАЕТЕ?
@bruceburrows3284 Жыл бұрын
Well that was great but could not see a thing you where doing
@rumiartes36223 жыл бұрын
Muy oscuro no se ve bien
@waterfuel3 жыл бұрын
For "therapy," the copper wide surface area type bracelet must be overlapping with out touching, with a type of closure to hold its position as insulated, in a SPIRAL. The original health benefits came from science research a long time ago, which you probably never studied. 98% of users have it wrong. The vibrational energy in the air has frequencies, many from cosmic radiation. The cellular living tissue within the spiral gets absorbed energy at a low amplification. (Antenna) This works on people, animals and plants. I used this many years ago on my old dog with arthritis. Twice it worked.( Animals and plants don't have "BIAS"- Gee I think I feel better.) See - study the data published about the work of George Lakhovski and the booket "The Waves That Heal" Cancer eliminated in potted plants, and use of the electrically active type, or passive type copper spirals. So now you know.
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the information 🙂
@thompsonbrad54343 жыл бұрын
Some guys talk to much, and some need to talk more.
@AmberWolfWorkshop3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha yeah I know I should say something but I just don't feel comfortable talking 🤣 maybe one day I will make a video where i talk 😉