Here are four striking bails using the same design principle to accommodate
your large gemstone donuts.
The design is simple with only one soldered joint, making it a good
project for beginner solders.
The bails can be used for rectangular, square or round donuts.
Three of the bails are soldered pieces and one a no-solder project.
The bails can be made in sterling silver, copper, brass or bronze.
You can customize the design further, by using your own stamps or
texture hammers on the metal.
The tubes at the back of the bails are big enough to accommodate
most chains, large gauge neck wires, multi-strand cable necklaces
or smaller bead necklaces.
They can also be used in conjunction with silk cords, ribbons,
beaded Kumihimo cords or larger bead strands.
Go look for those forgotten large gemstone donuts in your bead
boxes and make some awesome pendants today!
Rings are perfect to display small gemstone donuts.
This project is a simple take on an adjustable wrap-around
shank.
It can be made in copper, brass or silver, with any colored stone
donut.
The small domed cup on the center can be changed to a square,
triangle or oval.
The texture on the cup and shank can be stamped, rolled milled
or hammered.
This means that your ring will always be a unique piece of art
jewelry.
Gemstone donuts are beautiful and always catch you eye at bead
shows. But, when you get home, you don’t know what to do with
them, so they get stashed in a box or drawer for “later”.
This project incorporates one of these smaller donuts into a simple,
but dramatic piece of jewelry.
Fused silver has a very attractive organic, one-of-a-kind look, making
it the perfect element for a unique piece of jewelry.
If you have not tried fusion before, this is a small project perfect to try
your hand at without risking a lot of material.
The tutorial is an instant downloading PDF file, it has 8 pages, 18 photos, a life size template of all the components and plenty of tips!
For intermediate skill students.
Anticlastic Raising is a way of shaping metal, curving it into different
directions like the shape of a horse’s saddle.
The shapes obtained with this method are very organic and beautiful.
They are also very strong; this means that thinner gauge metal can be
used to make lighter pieces.
Our cuff will be shaped into an asymmetric anticlastic spiral.
With one large lampwork wavy disk on the wide side, and a small disk
in a contrasting color on the narrow side.
The tutorial is an instant downloading PDF file, it has 8 pages, 16 photos, a life size template of all the components and plenty of tips! For intermediate skill students.
Do It Yourself Handmade Jewelry Combo KIT 4.
These are 2 wonderful introductory projects to the art of handmade jewelry.
The first one "No Solder Dots and Dashes Sterling Silver Earrings" will be fabricated completely
out of sterling silver.
Their simple and light contemporary design, make these earrings the go-to pair for everyday use.
The second one "Silver and Copper No Solder Large Hoop Earring" is a beautiful copper tubing large hoop earrings that can be textured and colored in many ways for everyday use.
Do It Yourself Handmade Jewelry KIT 2.
Wonderful introductory project to the art of handmade jewelry.
This pair of earrings "No Solder Dots and Dashes Sterling Silver Earrings" will be fabricated completely
out of sterling silver.
Their simple and light contemporary design, make these earrings the go-to pair for everyday use.