Make a Sleek Silver Cuff Bracelet : A Silversmithing Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to make a bold, modern, heavy cuff bracelet from sterling silver and Mary Ellen Jasper. This is an intermediate level project. For materials, I used 14 gauge (1.6 mm) sterling square wire, 8 gauge (3.25 mm) sterling half round wire, number 4 (5.89 mm) sterling low dome half round wire, 22 gauge (.66 mm) sterling sheet, and 3/16 inch (4.76 mm) fine silver bezel strip in 26 gauge (.41 mm). If you see me make a piece of Jewelry you'd like to purchase, contact me through my website. As always, I use hard silver sheet solder and a liquid flux.

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[tahomyjo]

I hope YouTube sees just how much of a valuble silversmith instructor you are to the public needing/wanting to learn! So informative on all the different ways to use silver wire and their gauges in your designs so we can learn and thank you very much for that. This bracelet is so beautiful.

[BenomarBen]

Hello from Morocco.
Glad to follow you very interesting channel
Houcine.

[jwon]

Chad hey! Thank you so much for the great video, beautiful work, and interesting video clip! I would looove to go out rock hounding myself here in Indiana! Congrats on 13k subscribers you deserve them and many many more your a great person and

[TitianBelle]

Mary Ellen jasper is quite old (even geologically speaking) and is the fossil remains of big algal mats called stromatolites. Stromatolites were among the first life on earth and are thought to be the organism responsible for the oxygen to our atmosphere. The oldest stromatolites are about 3.5 billion years old and those composing the Mary Ellen Jasper are just under 2 billion years old. Living stromatolites still exist. They live in shallow warm seas with high salinity. The largest known living stromatolite community is in Australia.

[tahomyjo]

I thought you mentioned in one of your videos that for your flux you use the boric acid and denatured alcohol but if that’s what you used in this video in the little squeeze bottle then where did the green color come from from?

[LTGuitar]

Chad, I’m looking to get a silversmith torch like yours from Rio Grande. It comes with a #00 tip and you use a #1 tip. The description says it will reach 4770F (2632C). Will this #00 tip be sufficient for this cuff bracelet as well as finer jewlery without changing tips? Should I order a #1 tip like you use ? Excellent tutorial and I am in the middle of making a bracelet very similar to yours and it has been a lot of help for me!! Thanks!!

[NineFingerNative]

Awesome job !! I use a beeswax candle on my blades it works well, what’s a fair price to ask for a bracelet of that caliper ?

[bethfarmer]

I always thought the bezel should be put on the cuff after it’s bent.