Here's a turorial I did on making your own brooch fittings
Thought someone might find it useful
Ends up looking like this
Nic x
Here's a turorial I did on making your own brooch fittings
Thought someone might find it useful
Ends up looking like this
Nic x
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brilliant nic, another file to add to my"i wanna do this" file!!! lol
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That's great Nic
Thanks
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ooo how did you know that someone mentioned making broaches to me? Ty hun
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Thats brilliant Nic, thanks for sharing
Brilliant Nic. I was taught how to make a brooch fitting in a jewellery class last year and yours looks so much better - and looks alot easier to make too! Thank you!
Fi
Hi Nic,
I have some questions about this, as I'm about to have another go at this later today:
1) Do you flatten the spiral 'pad' that you make for both ends of the brooch finding?
2) Do you solder each end one at a time, or do both at the same time?
3) You didn't mention in the tute what solder you used. Is it possible to use hard solder for each end?
4) I'm using sterling silver as my brooch base, and planning to use hard solder throughout. My plan is to melt the solder on one end of the brooch base, and then re-introduce one end of the brooch finding to the base, heat the base up some more and hope the heat from the base will conduct up through the brooch wire, melting the solder at the same time and bonding both base and wire. Then I'd do the same for the other side.
Do you think this will work?
Excellent tutorial and considerably easier than some other types I have seen.
I recently made this and wanted that type of catch on the back but could not get it right so made the dangly one instead. I will now have another go with your method.
Thanks Nic
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