Adapting a Tutorial

by Judy Larson

Following a tutorial is a great way to learn a new skill as well as make a new-to-you piece of jewelry. Tutorials can also be looked at as suggestions or starting-off points for your own designs.

Instructions

The links in this bracelet are adapted from the round link in the Argentium Silver Scrap Chain tutorial.
Place metal pieces (no wider than 1/8") around a ¼" by 7/8" rectangle drawn on a solderite board. Three to four layers, each fused separately, should be enough. If they are not pushed in with a pick when molten, the corners may need to be cut off after each fusing to make a more oval link. Be careful and work quickly so the metal does not pull back

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Because the links are long, they need to be curved a bit with bracelet bending pliers to better fit around the wrist.

A tutorial does not have to be followed exactly. Instead of scrap sheet, scrap wire was layered to make the "O" ring for the toggle. A ½" inner diameter circle drawn on solderite board and many pieces of rounded scrap wire was added around it. A solder pick helped to push the pieces together when they were slightly molten.

Materials

22 Gauge Dead Soft Argentium Silver Sheet - 6 Inches

H19-22SM6

Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 1 Inch
Price: $53.83
Gold Club Price: $40.37

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Basic Soldering Kit

G15-4

G15-4
Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $58.95
Gold Club Price: $44.21

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Solderite Soldering Board 6 Inch by 6 Inch Soft

SOL-421.10

SOL-421.10
Lesson Quantity: 1.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each
Price: $14.76
Gold Club Price: $11.07

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Category: General Education
Technique(s): General Education

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Judy Larson

My philosophy has always been "I will never live long enough to learn everything I want to learn, go everywhere I want to go and see everything I want to see!" So, what I make and how I create it is always changing and evolving. I was born shortly after WWII to parents who grew up during the Depression. They always had a "we can do it, we can make it" attitude which rubbed off on my two younger brothers and me. My brothers are amazing and can make and do ANYTHING! When I was a little girl, my mother gave me an old carved cigar box, which I cherish, filled with pop beads, wooden beads and yarn for stringing. That was the beginning of my jewelry making journey.

On a visit to the Grand Canyon when I was a young woman, I was fortunate enough to help a Native American silversmith sand cast my first silver bracelet and bezel set a large turquoise nugget on top. I was in love, hook, line and sinker! While working full time and having a family here in northern Minnesota, my artistic endeavors slowed down but never stopped. I am an artist, scrapbooker, seamstress, woodworker and jewelry artisan. Now that I am retired, I am able to indulge in all my hobbies. However, there just never seems to be enough time in the day to do it all, but I try!

I have been teaching community education beginner and intermediate jewelry making classes since my retirement. Many of my students have been bitten so hard by the jewelry making bug that they say I have turned them into monsters-they just can't get enough. Making jewelry, seeing something take shape from small bits and pieces, is so rewarding that I hope it brings out the "monster" in you, too!

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