r/SilverSmith

Used to be a ring, figured it would look better as a pendant so I chopped it up a little and put it back together ❤️

I picked up some garnet cabochons a while back for accents on more complicated pieces, but I have a few extra. One went into this simple pendant! Working on soldering small things and also not melting tube sterling. The tube hinge makes for a nice little fidget!

10mm hessonite garnet round, 18g wire, 24g sheet, fine silver bezel.

Beginner silversmith here, looking for encouragement not judgement, still have a lot to learn! I am aware I have too much solder here, I’m experimenting with this piece. These solder pieces are not melting no matter what. I’ve cleaned the metal, and whatnot, how would you trouble shoot this

Fantasy carved Smoky Quartz

I would love an outside perspective!

I’ve had this stormy cab of Pietersite in my collection for a while and I want to make a simple silver pendant with it.

I’m trying to find the best way to set the stone that won’t detract from the movement within it. There’s also a small swirl of orange that flows over the side that I don’t want to lose.

I originally thought to do a fine silver bezel setting but I’m afraid that a lot of the swirls in the stone will be lost if the sides are fully enclosed within a bezel.

My question is, how would you go about setting it with silver?

Diamond and emerald, handmade in my studio.

Because silver clay is fine silver, LOS doesn't work on it. Or at least it doesn't very well for me. I bought a pouch of copper clay to fool around with and started wondering about adding an oooonch of the copper clay to the correct amount of silver clay, and make sure it's mixed really well with mortar and pestle, could it approach sterling instead of fine silver?

I'm not going to ask AI, because it's a plague and I hate it. I'd rather hear from y'all here in person.

(Picture is of some necklaces I made back in the day, for the Scottish Highland Games circuit that I worked for years. They're sterling silver Celtic knotwork, cut and pierce from 18 gauge flat sheet and chased to make the illusion of weaving knotwork. Fun to do but really hard on the hands.)

Banana for scale.
These are some scarf rings I made, mainly for practice getting the joints right. They are made of #8 ga copper wire, electroplated with tin (I've given up silver for Lent). To they naked eye, the tumbled rings look flawlessly shiny. Even tin takes on a nice gleam. But when I photograph them, flaws and mottling appears (2nd photo).
Is there a reason this happens? (It happens with silver, too.) Is there a way to photograph shiny stuff without this effect?

I still love jimothy tho. Left him as a silhouette because i don’t actually know how to engrave and I don’t want to ruin it 🤪

I tried making a ring with prongs. I kind of did it but as you can see the photos, prongs are not aligned right and there is a gap under the stone because apperently I made the space too narrow. I can make it wider but I don't know how to align prongs properly. Wheh I am soldering one of them, weld on the other can melt and it gets skewed.

The material is brass.

Edit: I am watching some videos about it. I see some people using something like clay to keep parts in position. It looks like useful, is it just regular clay? Also I see some people don't use it and parts just stay in their position. I guess when you do everything just right up to the soldering, they stay in position (maybe with capillary action)

I started silversmithing and soft soldering in May. Here are a few of my pieces. I sell mostly on depop. Where do you sell most? What do you price your pieces at?

He comenzado a hacer joyería hace menos de un año. Uso Alpaca/nickel silver. Aún no me animo a invertir en plata aunque me gustaría, ya que siento que las personas buscan más la plata 925 que alpaca.

Me gustaría saber la opinión de personas con más experiencia. En qué debería mejorar, probablemente en la soldadura.

También quisiera aprender wire wrapping para combinar ambas técnicas.

Alguien tiene experiencia vendiendo en mercados de Europa? Me gustaría hacer eso el verano próximo.

Wanted to see if I could create a 3d pendant from a 2D picture. I am going to try again and make it a bit larger. This one is only about 2” tall.