Thanks!

Thanks 😊

Thank you!

Thank you!

Yeah the anvil is lovely 🙂 I was lucky to get it.

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Thanks for the advices 🙂 is there any place where I could have a look at your creations?

@@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!

@@theinvisiblequeen wow you are a pro! Congrats!

Thank you 🙂

Thanks :)

Nice!

Thank you!

Cieńsze druty jak najbardziej, grubsze wolę ręcznie.

Dziękuję!

Thank you!

Yeah go for it!!

Thank you very much!

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Thank you! 🙂

Thanks 🙂 I just subbed yours as well 🙂 I saw few videos I will check out after work

@@AmberWolfWorkshop cool thanks us bearded brothers need to stick together lol

Hahaha yeah that's right!

My mate made them hi is a blacksmith. Any good blacksmith should be capable of making those.

hes using borax. a borax cone with a little water to be exact

Ye, borax. And normal plumbers torch.

@@AmberWolfWorkshop what does the borax do?

Borax is essential for soldering

@@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.

I don't make it super clean

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.

Thank you. I had some problems when I was trying for the first few times. Don't give up 😉

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

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.

Thanks for the tips. I didn't solder anything in here. Just fuse the ends together.

@@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.

Sure I can :)

It looks like thick wire from electrical cable.

I think it was 2 or 3mm

No solder used

I guessing,he melted the ends and stopped at certain point before it breaks and separates to then flattened.

Thanks!

3 mm if I remember correctly .

I have never made that kind of bracelet out of 6 wires but I can imagine in the same way.

Well what can I say... As you can see I managed to fuse it...

@@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?

Just don't give up and keep on trying 😉

Oksyda is something like liver of sulphur. Thank I dip it in to water mixed with soda to neutralize liver of sulphur

@@AmberWolfWorkshop oh ok liver of sulphur produces a patina so darkens the copper. Nice one!

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.

Borax

Why would you not do this but with gold? Make me one. I will send you the material and pay for the work.

Yes

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?

I only use flux. Any torch which is powerful enough will do the job I guess.

I believed it's called liver of sulphur in English

Thanks. It was something like liver of sulphur it's called oksyda in Polish.

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

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!

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!

Nice one. Have nice day.

Sorry to hear that. Don't give up and keep on trying 🙃 Rome wasn't build in a day 😉

@@AmberWolfWorkshop i won't give up thank you 😊

@@samuelabe8308 Maybe try more powerful torch?

Thanks 😊 It's just to show how it was made, it's not a tutorial video sorry.

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 🙂

Hi. Yes I'm selling those. It's 16 gbp plus postage. Thanks.

@@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?

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

@@AmberWolfWorkshop Facebook :)

Thanks for the information 🙂

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 😉