Metal Jewelry Making

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Free metal jewelry making tutorials, tips, and guides - including ideas for less expensive materials and tools:

Learn Virginia Vivier's fantastic, inexpensive method of
making unique, fast-selling metal jewelry.

Metal Jewelry Tutorial - You Don't Need Expensive Tools
Virginia Vivier's eye-opening tutorial shows an easy way to create fabulous, unique metal jewelry - for an investment of under $150 in tools.

Create Multiple Pieces of Metal Jewelry Quickly with a Hydraulic Press
Virginia Vivier's tutorial shows you how to make unique, fast-selling metal jewelry - requiring less than 5 minutes of handwork using a hydaulic press, dies, and a rotary tumbler.

Using Liver of Sulphur to Color Silver Clay
Susan Whelan shares her nifty method of adding lovely colors to her silver clay pieces.

Metal Stamping Jewelry
Tips, techniques, and projects for stamping metal jewelry.

Wire Jewelry Making Tips
Check out these handy hints and tips for making wire jewelry more easily and cheaply - and creating more professional-looking pieces.

Acid Etching Metal Jewelry, Part 1: Design Transfer
In the first installment, Virginia Vivier demonstrates how to transfer photocopies of your custom designs onto flat pieces of brass, copper, or silver in preparation for the acid etching process.

Acid Etching Metal Jewelry, Part 2: Hand-Drawing Designs on Brass and Copper
Virginia shows a different way of getting your custom designs onto brass or copper in preparation for etching - by drawing directly on the metal using a special ink as a "resist."

Acid Etching Metal Jewelry, Part 3a: Preparing the Ferric Chloride Acid Bath
What you need for the acid bath you'll use for etching your brass and copper jewelry, and where to get the supplies.

Acid Etching Metal Jewelry, Part 3b: Etching Your Jewelry in the Acid Bath
Virginia's success tips for immersing your prepared copper and brass jewelry in the acid bath and getting great results.

Acid Etching Metal Jewelry, Part 3c: Finishing the Acid Bath
How to decide when your etched brass and copper pieces are ready to come out of the acid bath - and what to do with them next.

Jewelry Making Metal
A handy reference of facts, charts, helpful tips, and new options for silver, gold, copper, brass, vermeil, bronze, steel, pewter, metal clay, base metals, etc.

Metalwork Jewelry Gallery
See a lovely selection of unique artisan designs that incorporate techniques like stamping, oxidizing, hammering, silversmithing, etching, goldsmithing, repousse, chasing, soldering, and more.

Wire Jewelry Gallery
See a variety of wirework pieces, from ruggedly rustic to elegant.

Metal Clay Jewelry Gallery
An inspiring collection of metal clay artistry, including pieces with lots of texture work, stone-setting, and additional elements such as wire and chain.

Chain Maille Jewelry Gallery
See creative use of chain maille, including pieces made with colored rings.