r/jewelrymaking

I'm loving this trade so far! Little bit of nervousness when working with the more expensive materials and it's kinda mind-blowing how miniscule some of the work is. But I've been doing a bit of watch repair as a hobby so it's not too bad.

It's so satisfying learning new skills and seeing yourself becoming more kowlegable and proficient.

Hope it's ok to post some bragging pics of projects I've finished so far, it is not intended as promotion, I do not have a business and they are not for sale.

So what do y'all wish you learned early on?

I made this but im a lil worried about the charm coming off also how to properly close(tie) it off near the clasp area

I’ve been practicing for days and they keep looking too oval to me. I just cannot get that perfect circle no matter what I do and I’m getting extremely frustrated. Honest critiques welcome. Including if the bead choices are overall just ugly/boring. I need to know honestly if I should keep going or improvement tips. I’m not going for design of the year I’d just like to make some simple daily wearables. Thank you 😫

What’s the best way to have these beads fixed into a sturdy bracelet? They originally snapped off of the clear elastic they came with. Or can someone wire these up for me?

Had a thin silver band, then built on it.

Left it to dry once, fixed anything that looked like a potential issue for firing, then left to dry another 12hrs.

The stone is Malaya Garnet, withstands firing temp.

It went to the friend who happily modeled for this pic :)

Made these Fox head pendants for my jewelry making final! I 3d modeled the deisgn, printed in wax then did a lost wax casting. People have been asking to buy em but I’m not sure hi to go about pricing them? Any more experienced artist have suggestions?

This is just the jewelry I made last weekend. If there is interest I'd be happy to post more. Let me know your thoughts.

I think my dragon Renaissance ring in 22k with a small ruby turned out nice

Hi, this is my first post here or any jewelry / smithing subreddit, I am strictly a beginner in the matter.

I have made some chainmaille from open iron jumprings and wanted to continue with metalworking and more specifically jewelry making and thought to make a silver chain (maille) for myself and to solder the rings shut for security. Now for price reasons I bought a 0,6 mm gauge, which proved too intricate for my skill level. It's very sensitive to heat and quickly melts into a ball.

I practiced with 1 mm copper, to varying success (few welded rings, 1 successful copper-to-copper braze and one silver solder on copper,) and made two rings that I'm wearing now, but other than that I have zero experience.

I'm looking for pointers on how I could get started brazing my jumprings shut so i can start weaving my chain and what the best method would be for welding hundreds of tiny jumprings.

Hope this isn't completely hopeless...

TL;DR: Complete metalworking beginner, want chainmaille bracelet, how to solder hundreds of tiny silver jumprings?

My background is as a colored gemstone enthusiast (my username checks out, right?) but i ended up with a drawer and needed something to do with them so I decided to have some jewelry made! I designed the ring with some help from AI because I cannot draw at all, and had it converted to CAD, tweaked and cast! Now they will be set with heated blue zircons (center stones: ovals about 10x8mm) and the side stones are going to be unheated brown zircons (closer to 6mm rounds or 5x6mm ovals).

I bought the stones directly from a miner at the mine in Ratanakiri, Cambodia back before COVID and found a manufacturer in Bangkok to do the CAD and casting. Setting will be done in Bangkok as well and I'll post pictures of a finished ring when I pick them up later this week or next.

The one thing I learned through this process is to get well-calibrated stones if you want to make multiple pieces. Mine weren't within the .1 mm tolerance required, so each ring had to be individually rendered in CAD and separate molds made for each. If I had found more identical zircons it would have been one CAD and one mold for all 24 rings...

This is my favorite 😍 so far.