Great project. If you use locking plyers to hold while you twist, I've found its easier to keep the twist even and tight. I've also used 2 locking plyers, one on each end (if you don't have a vice available.) Try a 6 or 8 gauge wire (6 is heavier, 8 is lighter, 10 is even lighter but works well too for bracelets. I get my wire from Home Depot, electrical dept, on a spool they cut it for you. Cheap, easy to work.) for the base. Flatten the whole length, but do the extra spread for one end. Then, holding this just after the spread in a non marring jaws of your vice (heavy piece of scrap leather works well) you can just twist the center part till you reach the right length and then do the flat for the other end. This is a nice looking style. If you're a stamper, try hammering it flat first, stamp symbols or words, and then twist the center part. Another variation is soldering the end of a pair of smaller wires (already twisted and slightly flattened or not as you like) wind this 'in the groove' of the twist of the flattened 6 gauge wire. I just cut and solder the ends of the small twist to size when I reach the end. But be sure to curve it into a bracelet before cutting the small braid to size! Using brass wire for the smaller twist can also add visual interest. Have fun!
@@AmberWolfWorkshop got some of my regular silver jewelry on Etsy at CraftyFoxArtworks. Go to Etsy, plug the name in as shown in their search bar. I've got about 30 different styles in copper bracelets but a bit more to do till they go up there. Been a jeweler since '86. I was apprenticed 1st to a blacksmith, then an art jeweler, then a small production jeweler. Love to teach and write articles. Haven't done anything on UA-cam yet, probably should, but videos I've never done. I'm a designer, artist craftsman, sculptor/carver. Damn I just like to make things! You know what I mean. I work in leather, ceramics, wood, horn, bone and antler as well as stone, metal, cloth and I often combine them. Makes it more interesting!
Great job. The bright lights in the background make it hard to watch the video for very long. And overhead or 45 degree downward view is ideal for this though. People want to see what you're doing, not (sings) blinded by the lighttttt. I love the ASMR aspect. And again, nice bracelet.
For "therapy," the copper wide surface area type bracelet must be overlapping with out touching, with a type of closure to hold its position as insulated, in a SPIRAL. The original health benefits came from science research a long time ago, which you probably never studied. 98% of users have it wrong. The vibrational energy in the air has frequencies, many from cosmic radiation. The cellular living tissue within the spiral gets absorbed energy at a low amplification. (Antenna) This works on people, animals and plants. I used this many years ago on my old dog with arthritis. Twice it worked.( Animals and plants don't have "BIAS"- Gee I think I feel better.) See - study the data published about the work of George Lakhovski and the booket "The Waves That Heal" Cancer eliminated in potted plants, and use of the electrically active type, or passive type copper spirals. So now you know.
Sticking my nose on where it might not be wanted again. But I hope this might help you if I am not teaching you eggs sucking. Make sure your metal is clean, give the ends you are soldering a quick run with grit paper to get shiny metal if you have heated it at any time pickle it. (That means soaking g it in a mild acid you can find the how to on jewellery making sites) when you put the rods together they must touch. Solder can not jump. If the metal is round, just run a file over it to make a flat surface so the metal can touch flush. Put the flux on these flat sides and put the solder between the rods and just a little into the grooves. The metal is bonded together with the help of the flux. Solder will run when heat is applied but the bond will be where the flux is. The metal won"t bond if it is not fluxed (metal will fuse with heat but that is another story for another time) Solder follows the heat so be careful to heat only the ends and down the over the edges you are soldering not the whole rod. Look up how a torch flame works. I struggled to solder because I tried to heat the solder with the tip of the torch and couldn"t do it. The flame is hottest just in front of the blue cone. Once you put the torch onto to the metal do not be tempted to take it off to have a quick peek. This will cause oxides to build up and then metal just gets mycky and nothing happens. Have patience. It will take time. The metal goes yellow and then red and solder suddenly flows. Take the touch off immediately or the metal will melt. Soldering is about good process and practice. It takes time to get used to the pace of it. It seemed to take for ever and then happens all at once. It is not easy to learn by yourself because you need to see the red yellow change. A nano second as the solder is beginning to move you might see what is called is called the solder flash, it is a fleeting bright glint. If you can get a jeweller to show you. But keep trying. Once you get it you will not forget it and making jewellery is a great skill that is dying out
PS a quick word about solder. Look up the different solder types there are three jewellers solders. It is not the stuff welders use. You probably know this. But just in case you didn"t I thought I would mention it. Anyway. When get you get the strip put it through a roller untill it is about half its depth or hammer it thinner. Cut the pallions (bits to you and me) into small, like small bits. If you put big bits on your work it takes too long to flow and the metal tends to melt first or it will roll into a tiny irritating little ball that sits there just to annoy you. Good soldering.
@@AmberWolfWorkshop I am sorry. I did not mean to be the precocious brat in the class. I thought I was responding to a comment in the comments section to someone who was struggling to with soldering. It is obvious from your video that you know what you are doing. I came here to learn from you. I hope you do not think I wa implying you can"t do it. I was hoping to help a fellow jeweller. I learn from you, I pass on my learning. And do on. I was hoping too that because you were not using solder techniques that those who came here might benefit from help. I really do not want you to think I was trying to undermine you. Quite the contrary. I have just made a torc cuff with three two strand twists because of your help. Thanks for your reply and thanks for your help. I do not know about you, but my wrists ache from all that twisting.
@@elsieberrios7559 dip your finger in boron/borax a couple of times and eat it. It helps our bones, and helps our creaky hands work again and stop aching. It’s just a mineral we need and don’t get. Waaay off topic, sorry. Beautiful bracelet.
Ive tried melting the ends (as I see others have)- you say it takes a gas fitters torch? Ive tried a standard torch with butane- didn't get hot enough. Tried an expensive jewellers one, same. Bought a high temp MAPP torch- same again. Checking on line, apparently copper melts at 2000 degrees, MAPP only reaches 1400, butane less? The next 'torch technology' up is MAPP/ oxy mix- which gets to the 2000 degrees required- is this what you mean?
@@AmberWolfWorkshop yes - I would love to see what you were using at 2.22! I seriously can't afford 60e plus for twin gas system, but I have poured 2/3 of a can of mapp gas in & can't get it to fuse! The only thing is I haven't got a borax cone so I've been using normal flux - and anyway that's an impurity thing isn't it?
at 3.13 you dump the copper in a bottle with Oksyda written on it, then into what looks like water. IS that a pickle" effectively- putting it direct into the pure mixture then into water to complete a clean up? Or is it a copper darkener or something. (I notice the translation comes out as " Oksyda "- huh? Obviously rooted in oxidisation but hey...).
Thanks a lot for reply. Yes i searched the internet and found how is this acid called in czech. I have to make 30 vikings bracelets for kids on summer camp. So its gonna be fun. :D
Welcome. Just make sure to read about that chemical. It's toxic so you have to follow some safety rules. Especially when you will be working with kids. Good luck!
Dont worry i already read about this acid and safety rules. And there wont be any kids when i will be making the bracelets. Thanks and have a nice day!
I'm just showing how I make it. If you think twisting 4 wires at a time will work than go for it. I have never tried doing it your way so I don't know if it will work or not.
Are you using solder to fuse the ends, or simply torching the copper together with flux on it? Can this be done with a propane Coleman style torch head?
Hi. No worries. I could make one this week. Can you let me know she length of the bracelet from one end to another please. Also if you prefer we can talk on facebook or instagram. You can find me under that name: amber wolf workshop
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Excellent work. I only work in recycled copper materials and love this style of twisted cuff! Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks!
Great project. If you use locking plyers to hold while you twist, I've found its easier to keep the twist even and tight. I've also used 2 locking plyers, one on each end (if you don't have a vice available.)
Try a 6 or 8 gauge wire (6 is heavier, 8 is lighter, 10 is even lighter but works well too for bracelets. I get my wire from Home Depot, electrical dept, on a spool they cut it for you. Cheap, easy to work.) for the base. Flatten the whole length, but do the extra spread for one end. Then, holding this just after the spread in a non marring jaws of your vice (heavy piece of scrap leather works well) you can just twist the center part till you reach the right length and then do the flat for the other end. This is a nice looking style. If you're a stamper, try hammering it flat first, stamp symbols or words, and then twist the center part.
Another variation is soldering the end of a pair of smaller wires (already twisted and slightly flattened or not as you like) wind this 'in the groove' of the twist of the flattened 6 gauge wire. I just cut and solder the ends of the small twist to size when I reach the end. But be sure to curve it into a bracelet before cutting the small braid to size! Using brass wire for the smaller twist can also add visual interest. Have fun!
Thanks for the advices 🙂 is there any place where I could have a look at your creations?
@@AmberWolfWorkshop got some of my regular silver jewelry on Etsy at CraftyFoxArtworks. Go to Etsy, plug the name in as shown in their search bar. I've got about 30 different styles in copper bracelets but a bit more to do till they go up there. Been a jeweler since '86. I was apprenticed 1st to a blacksmith, then an art jeweler, then a small production jeweler. Love to teach and write articles. Haven't done anything on UA-cam yet, probably should, but videos I've never done. I'm a designer, artist craftsman, sculptor/carver. Damn I just like to make things! You know what I mean. I work in leather, ceramics, wood, horn, bone and antler as well as stone, metal, cloth and I often combine them. Makes it more interesting!
@@theinvisiblequeen wow you are a pro! Congrats!
LOVE IT! especially the stamped paddled ends!
Thanks 😊
Yeah, those were some pretty specific instructions
P
0:17 pic under the lamp: classy af
Thanks, I was studying how to make a very similar piece with silver. But the thin wire will be twisted too. Great job!!!
Nice!
Lindo bracelete , bom trabalho , like e compartilhamento
BEAUTIFUL work !
Thank you!
Great job. The bright lights in the background make it hard to watch the video for very long. And overhead or 45 degree downward view is ideal for this though. People want to see what you're doing, not (sings) blinded by the lighttttt. I love the ASMR aspect. And again, nice bracelet.
Thank you very much!
Craftsmanship at its best! 👍
Thanks :)
Nice, love the anvil.
Yeah the anvil is lovely 🙂 I was lucky to get it.
Well that was great but could not see a thing you where doing
Damn it, I need my copper wire twisted like that! Can you come twist mine, lol!?!?
Sure I can :)
Viking back in action! :)
Polecam wkretarke do skrecania takiego ;)
Cieńsze druty jak najbardziej, grubsze wolę ręcznie.
Me gusto este trabajo felicitaciones...
Excelente trabajo !!
Que tipo de Sulfuro usas para la patina?
Nice work.
You said you used 4 wires but i can only see 2 thick wires at the start and them 1 thinner wire, could you point out where you used the 4th please?
КРУТО, ЭТО ЖЕ ЛЕЧЕБНОЕ, ВЫ ПРАДАЕТЕ?
My daughter's just salvaged lots of copper wire and rod from electrical cables so we might have a go at making something like this.
Yeah go for it!!
Amigo ficou lindo, parabéns pelo trabalho...
Very nice work
Thank you!
Beautiful 😍
nice share
Thanks!
What substance are you putting on ends of wire to solder?
Beautiful
Thank you!
Nice
So beautiful !! I love it !
Thank you!
Amazing ✋ artwork
Thank you 🙂
Cool!
Pekná práca...
Dziękuję!
Daora, vou fazer um tbm.
use a drill so much easier
For "therapy," the copper wide surface area type bracelet must be overlapping with out touching, with a type of closure to hold its position as insulated, in a SPIRAL. The original health benefits came from science research a long time ago, which you probably never studied. 98% of users have it wrong. The vibrational energy in the air has frequencies, many from cosmic radiation. The cellular living tissue within the spiral gets absorbed energy at a low amplification. (Antenna) This works on people, animals and plants. I used this many years ago on my old dog with arthritis. Twice it worked.( Animals and plants don't have "BIAS"- Gee I think I feel better.) See - study the data published about the work of George Lakhovski and the booket "The Waves That Heal" Cancer eliminated in potted plants, and use of the electrically active type, or passive type copper spirals. So now you know.
Thanks for the information 🙂
Length of wire and gauge of wire?
what is the "Oksyda" you dip it in? Is it ferric chloride acid, or a chemical patina? Ah, just googled it, blueing solution.
I believed it's called liver of sulphur in English
Cool to watch, but why no explanations 😥?
Thanks 😊 It's just to show how it was made, it's not a tutorial video sorry.
Cool channel bro subbed
Thanks 🙂 I just subbed yours as well 🙂 I saw few videos I will check out after work
@@AmberWolfWorkshop cool thanks us bearded brothers need to stick together lol
Hahaha yeah that's right!
I tried, can't melt the wire together to make beautifuls plate like you
Sorry to hear that. Don't give up and keep on trying 🙃 Rome wasn't build in a day 😉
@@AmberWolfWorkshop i won't give up thank you 😊
@@samuelabe8308 Maybe try more powerful torch?
thick copper? looked hard to cut..damn. ha ha and u look strong, i may my tin snips! angle grinder!!
Why would you not do this but with gold? Make me one. I will send you the material and pay for the work.
🦅
Orientujesz się może czym zaczernić mosiądz?
I appreciate your video and your work! I tried and tried but the ends won't fuse together.
Thank you. I had some problems when I was trying for the first few times. Don't give up 😉
Sticking my nose on where it might not be wanted again. But I hope this might help you if I am not teaching you eggs sucking. Make sure your metal is clean, give the ends you are soldering a quick run with grit paper to get shiny metal if you have heated it at any time pickle it. (That means soaking g it in a mild acid you can find the how to on jewellery making sites) when you put the rods together they must touch. Solder can not jump. If the metal is round, just run a file over it to make a flat surface so the metal can touch flush. Put the flux on these flat sides and put the solder between the rods and just a little into the grooves. The metal is bonded together with the help of the flux. Solder will run when heat is applied but the bond will be where the flux is. The metal won"t bond if it is not fluxed (metal will fuse with heat but that is another story for another time) Solder follows the heat so be careful to heat only the ends and down the over the edges you are soldering not the whole rod. Look up how a torch flame works. I struggled to solder because I tried to heat the solder with the tip of the torch and couldn"t do it. The flame is hottest just in front of the blue cone. Once you put the torch onto to the metal do not be tempted to take it off to have a quick peek. This will cause oxides to build up and then metal just gets mycky and nothing happens. Have patience. It will take time. The metal goes yellow and then red and solder suddenly flows. Take the touch off immediately or the metal will melt. Soldering is about good process and practice. It takes time to get used to the pace of it. It seemed to take for ever and then happens all at once. It is not easy to learn by yourself because you need to see the red yellow change. A nano second as the solder is beginning to move you might see what is called is called the solder flash, it is a fleeting bright glint. If you can get a jeweller to show you. But keep trying. Once you get it you will not forget it and making jewellery is a great skill that is dying out
PS a quick word about solder. Look up the different solder types there are three jewellers solders. It is not the stuff welders use. You probably know this. But just in case you didn"t I thought I would mention it. Anyway. When get you get the strip put it through a roller untill it is about half its depth or hammer it thinner. Cut the pallions (bits to you and me) into small, like small bits. If you put big bits on your work it takes too long to flow and the metal tends to melt first or it will roll into a tiny irritating little ball that sits there just to annoy you. Good soldering.
Thanks for the tips. I didn't solder anything in here. Just fuse the ends together.
@@AmberWolfWorkshop I am sorry. I did not mean to be the precocious brat in the class. I thought I was responding to a comment in the comments section to someone who was struggling to with soldering. It is obvious from your video that you know what you are doing. I came here to learn from you. I hope you do not think I wa implying you can"t do it. I was hoping to help a fellow jeweller. I learn from you, I pass on my learning. And do on. I was hoping too that because you were not using solder techniques that those who came here might benefit from help. I really do not want you to think I was trying to undermine you. Quite the contrary. I have just made a torc cuff with three two strand twists because of your help. Thanks for your reply and thanks for your help. I do not know about you, but my wrists ache from all that twisting.
What type of flux and gas are you using. Great job! I'm just starting out with copper.
hes using borax. a borax cone with a little water to be exact
Ye, borax. And normal plumbers torch.
@@AmberWolfWorkshop what does the borax do?
Borax is essential for soldering
@@elsieberrios7559 dip your finger in boron/borax a couple of times and eat it. It helps our bones, and helps our creaky hands work again and stop aching. It’s just a mineral we need and don’t get. Waaay off topic, sorry.
Beautiful bracelet.
What type of Flux to you aply
Co nakładsz pędzlem na druty przed zakuciem?
Borax
Ive tried melting the ends (as I see others have)- you say it takes a gas fitters torch?
Ive tried a standard torch with butane- didn't get hot enough. Tried an expensive jewellers one, same.
Bought a high temp MAPP torch- same again.
Checking on line, apparently copper melts at 2000 degrees, MAPP only reaches 1400, butane less?
The next 'torch technology' up is MAPP/ oxy mix- which gets to the 2000 degrees required- is this what you mean?
Well what can I say... As you can see I managed to fuse it...
@@AmberWolfWorkshop yes - I would love to see what you were using at 2.22! I seriously can't afford 60e plus for twin gas system, but I have poured 2/3 of a can of mapp gas in & can't get it to fuse! The only thing is I haven't got a borax cone so I've been using normal flux - and anyway that's an impurity thing isn't it?
at 3.13 you dump the copper in a bottle with Oksyda written on it, then into what looks like water. IS that a pickle" effectively- putting it direct into the pure mixture then into water to complete a clean up? Or is it a copper darkener or something.
(I notice the translation comes out as " Oksyda "- huh? Obviously rooted in oxidisation but hey...).
Oksyda is something like liver of sulphur. Thank I dip it in to water mixed with soda to neutralize liver of sulphur
@@AmberWolfWorkshop oh ok liver of sulphur produces a patina so darkens the copper. Nice one!
What is that chemicals you used please? Awesome work btw.
Thanks. It was something like liver of sulphur it's called oksyda in Polish.
Thanks a lot for reply. Yes i searched the internet and found how is this acid called in czech. I have to make 30 vikings bracelets for kids on summer camp. So its gonna be fun. :D
Welcome. Just make sure to read about that chemical. It's toxic so you have to follow some safety rules. Especially when you will be working with kids. Good luck!
Dont worry i already read about this acid and safety rules. And there wont be any kids when i will be making the bracelets. Thanks and have a nice day!
Nice one. Have nice day.
Parabéns pelo trabalho !
How much copper wires do you use ?
4
Where did you get your triangle stamps? Those are cool!!!
My mate made them hi is a blacksmith. Any good blacksmith should be capable of making those.
Please explain...why add a third wire when you can twist three at one time...
I'm just showing how I make it. If you think twisting 4 wires at a time will work than go for it. I have never tried doing it your way so I don't know if it will work or not.
Does the metal have to be super clean before melting it with just flux?
I don't make it super clean
What gauge wire was that? Looked like 12 or maybe 14?
3 mm if I remember correctly .
Muy oscuro no se ve bien
do you have any advice for forging the ends?
Just don't give up and keep on trying 😉
Are you forge welding the ends together or did you use some type of solder?
No solder used
I guessing,he melted the ends and stopped at certain point before it breaks and separates to then flattened.
Beautiful thank you!
Thank you! 🙂
What type of gas did you use to melt the ends together? Flux?
Yep, flux. I can't remember it's some kind of mixture. I will try to remember to check tomorrow when I will be in the workshop.
So you know roughly how thick the copper in this was, I know it's an old video so thanks of you reply
It looks like thick wire from electrical cable.
I think it was 2 or 3mm
Omg I want
are you fusing the ends together?
Yes
Are you using solder to fuse the ends, or simply torching the copper together with flux on it? Can this be done with a propane Coleman style torch head?
I only use flux. Any torch which is powerful enough will do the job I guess.
Sir I want to ask that how 6wire will be twisted
I have never made that kind of bracelet out of 6 wires but I can imagine in the same way.
Are you selling any of these, how much?
Hi. Yes I'm selling those. It's 16 gbp plus postage. Thanks.
@@AmberWolfWorkshop hi Michal, sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. I would like to order one! How long before I can get one?
Hi. No worries. I could make one this week. Can you let me know she length of the bracelet from one end to another please. Also if you prefer we can talk on facebook or instagram. You can find me under that name: amber wolf workshop
@@AmberWolfWorkshop Facebook :)
Czy to znalezisko z Nowogrodu ?
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Some guys talk to much, and some need to talk more.
Hahaha yeah I know I should say something but I just don't feel comfortable talking 🤣 maybe one day I will make a video where i talk 😉