How to make gold jewelry- turn the old to a brand new look

Summary: This tutorial is going to tell you the accurate steps about how to make gold jewelry; generally speaking, as for gold jewelry making, materials and equipment are major difficulties rather than skills related to average beaded jewelry.

Date : Sep 09, 2012

Gold jewelry is not that easy project for our common people; we all know when undertaking gold jewelry, what we need most: the high temperature heater, mold and other heavy machines. It is these things that restrain us from experiencing the process of this handmade jewelry. This time, how to make gold jewelry project is aiming to explain the details about gold jewelry making.

To begin with, what a maker demands for how to make gold jewelry are old gold jewelry, crucible, heater, ingot mold, rolling machine, vice, plier, solder, and tripoli polish.

How to make gold jewelry step 1: shape the early form of gold jewelry

First, place the old jewelry into crucible; give continuous high temperature heat till it is melt down. Bits of flux would be involved in for eliminating possible impurities.

Second, pour the liquid gold into mold gently and evenly.

Third, wait the fluid gold to be solid.

How to make gold jewelry step 1

How to make gold jewelry step 2: implement the desired pattern of this handmade jewelry

First, put the early form into rolling machine to be annealed;

Second, place one end into vice, the other is hold by plier and twist the gold bar into the desired pattern.

How to make gold jewelry step 2

How to make gold jewelry step 3: finish the gold jewelry

First, bend the gold bar into full circle, and solder two ends together;

Second, use tripoli polish to get rid of the oxides on the surface of gold jewelry.

Here the tutorial about how to make gold jewelry is completed and we believe you have got a clear impression about the detailed steps of gold jewelry making. If available, you might as well go to jewelry workshop and experience the handmade jewelry process by yourself.

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