r/SilverSmith

I made this cat ring.
My wife’s reaction: “You might want to talk to someone.”

Be honest—Does she have a point?

Hi all, I've been lurking a while and love the sub! I am working on this cuff bracelet where the center piece is very thick and then surrounded by 2 other pieces all soldered onto one back plate. I tried to swest solder it all at once, my smith little torch is not getting hot enough to melt medium solder I'm assuming because it is such a large piece. I do have access to a larger but still light duty oxy acetylene torch. I also have a mapp gas torch I was considering....

Should I solder the bigger center piece on first or should I still try to solder it all at once?

Thank you so much for any help or advice you can give!

I’m starting to incorporate the stones I’ve cut into the stones I set, it makes me really proud that at a quick glance you can’t tell the difference between my stones vs the others in my inventory

1: triangular beryl free hand cut, hand fabricated sterling band
2: rectangular citrine, hand fabricated sterling band
3: tourmaline baguette, hand fabricated sterling band
4. The inventory of stones I’m working with

A little test before/if i make one later out of silver. Made this litte copper braclet as prototype really which kinda went better then expected since i used silver solder i though it would be way more visable then it really is. First braclet btw so i haven't really gone into this hole before ;)

Hi there! This is a pendant I finished yesterday as a gift for my mom. I’m just starting out and this was a complex piece for me. I struggled with setting one bezel without damaging the one next to it, particularly the bottom of the pear without hitting the bezel setting below. I found it difficult to push the metal near the ball accents without damaging them as well. I use a brass bezel roller and a steel burnisher for reference. I ended up covering parts of the piece I wasn’t working on with a bunch of masking tape to try and offer protection. Would a pusher style tool work better than the roller in this case?
I understand I had problems with good bezel fit/height that contributed to those problems (and I definitely have a habit of using too much solder), but for future reference is there a way you all like to approach setting multiple bezels close to each other/other design elements on one piece? TIA for your thoughts and feedback!

My girlfriend picked this up and I want to make my own version in sterling silver and copper wire (there’s two coloured wires as you can see). The profile is tubular but I’m not 100% sure what it is. Any chainmaille folks recognise it?

Anybody know the name of the pattern on the left? I tried to imitate it but it didn’t come out exactly the same. Does anyone know a tutorial/youtube video?

Hand fabricated 925

How can I get this borax off this poured silver? Was asked to pour this for a friend's project but I usually pour 999 and don't use borax.

these are my first finished pieces! They are far from perfect, but the process was full of learning opportunities and I’m really happy with the end result. This sub has been such a valuable resource along the way. I can’t wait to make more stuff!

Haven’t been able to sit down and do much silver stuff, and I’ve been down lately, and when I got the chance tonight I melted through my first prong setting. Again. So I dug out an orbicular jasper cab I bought in February and went back to bezels.

She’s rough, and the solder on the decorative wire went walkabout at some point, but I really like this cab and making this pendant made me happy. I’m going to wear it to work tomorrow.

Make bad art yall 🫡

PS shoutout to the chopstick that played the part of my bezel pusher and burnisher, because those went walkabout too.

Really stoked on how this one turned out, band is recycled sterling silver and the setting is Argentium.