Jewellery making?

[Everything Mac]

Hi all,

A friend of mine is getting into making her own jewellery and I've been trying to help her out.

I'm keeping an eye out on ebay for a nice little anvil for her though if nothing comes up I'll just make one up.

I was wandering if anyone on here makes their own stuff and if so what sort of tools you use? - so I have an idea what to watch for.

Cheers

 

[mrcairney]

I have, in the past. I used silverclay which is pure silver, in a clay form. It might be good starter?

Here's zombie ring I made. Braaaaaaaaaains.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveisabadman/4572685890/in/photostream/

 

[Dave Budd]

pretty much all of the jewelry 've done has been made with the same tools I use for everything else, just hit things less hard

Mostly smaller pliers, hammers and punches. Some are just improvisd from nails at the time, but I'm sure a rummage around carboots for small tools will yield a range of modifiable tools. There are some specialised jewelers tools that would make life easier, but I don't do enough of it to bother buying/making them A lot of it will depend on what sort of jewelry making she is doing? some will get away with metal clay, some thin wire to make holes and a small pair of round nosed pliers; others will want rolling mills, wire drawers, chasing hammers, etc, etc

 

[Grebby]

Hi all,

A friend of mine is getting into making her own jewellery and I've been trying to help her out.

I'm keeping an eye out on ebay for a nice little anvil for her though if nothing comes up I'll just make one up.

I was wandering if anyone on here makes their own stuff and if so what sort of tools you use? - so I have an idea what to watch for.

Cheers

How small?

I've had this for ages, I'm not sure if it is just an ornament

It has one broken foot, but if it is of use to you you are welcome to it?

Cheers

Grebby

 

[launditch1]

Ive dabbled a bit..The tools i used the most was a small ball pien hammer, a selection of needle files, various small pliers like needlenose type and side cutters.
Will your friend be doing stuff like soldering ect?Thats when it gets into a world of flux, pickles and annealing!

 

[Everything Mac]

Cheers lads - I'm not sure what she is after exactly but something along the lines of small pliers etc will be useful to her I'm sure.

I'll keep an eye out.

Grebby - you have a PM mate - very kind offer.

All the best
Andy

 

[demographic]

My wife did it for a whileand although interesting its harder to make a living from it than some people think.
There's a hell of a lot of hobbyists doing it that are willing to sell stuff without making money on their time.

I'm willing to bet that knifemaking is the same that way.

 

[Ben Trout]

I buy my gas oxy-butane gases from Proops brothers. They have jewellery anvils here.

I have several different sets of pliers, one with nylon jaws; a couple of sets of self gripping tweezers and a couple of marlin spikes. I do wire jewellery, so have quite a specific tool kit that probably doesn't overlap much with other techniques.