Cold connecting metal pieces with rivets is the way to go if you don't want to or can't do soldering. Go Art Yourself has a modern calla lily pendant design tutorial for making this flower from copper sheet metal and wire.
No jewelry saw work either! Just metal snips - my kind of metal cutting too. The reason why I have such a pristine looking bench pin is because I rarely use it for sawing.
Her tutorial is in two parts.
Part 1 is where the main calla lily is created. The rivets are hidden. The 10 G wire will be tough to bend if it hasn't been annealed with a torch. You'll need strong fingers. Consider using a vise to hold on to the wire end while bending it around a suitable mandrel.
Part 2 is the wire weaving tutorial for the lovely embellishment.
H/T to Aims for this find.
Before You Go:
- Watch Melissa Muir Make a Gorgeous Copper Flower Pendant
- Wire Work Copper and Turquoise Flower Pendant Tutorial
- How to Make Copper Tube Jewelry Tutorials
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I always see stuff like this and it looks so nice and then I realize I don't even have the patience or skill to make wrapped loops with headpins...
ReplyDelete(On the other hand, who has any idea whether the headpins I dug out of my stash that I may have had for 20+ years are dead soft or half hard or whatever, I guess if you are wire wrapping you can buy wire of the appropriate hardness or anneal it. I don't really have a safe space for torch work right now.)
Yes, you can buy wire in different tempers so you do not have to struggle with a torch. But the really thick stuff, a torch is necessary.
DeleteI love this! I love Calla Lillies and I also love copper - so this is the perfect pendant for me!
ReplyDeleteEven if you don't do wire wrapping - just the Calla Lilly on its own would make a gorgeous pendant or addition to an assemblage piece would be gorgeous!
What a great tutorial!
Thank you for the find!
Deletecopper is my favorite "warm" metal, and this is lovely!
ReplyDeleteI learned so much from this video. Questions I had about working with flat metal were answered. Great project!
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