Botanical Shadow Box Bracelet Online Course
Welcome to this Cognac Jewellery School online course. This start-to-finish tutorial contains all the information you need to handcraft your own unique botanical silver bracelet using silver clay and traditional silversmithing techniques
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Resources
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Part 1 - Silver Clay
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Course Introduction
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Step 1: Choosing Botanicals & Making Moulds Using Siligum
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Step 2: Testing your moulds with plasticine
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Step 3: Making Silver Clay Botanical Impressions
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Step 4: Drying the Silver Clay
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Step 5a: Torch Firing
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Step 5b: Kiln Firing
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Step 6: Filing, Preparing and Polishing the Silver Clay
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Part 2 - The Elements
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Step 7: Preparing the Back Plates
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Step 8: Soldering the Silver Clay Coins to the Back Plates
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Step 9: Making and Soldering the Shadow Box Frames
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Step 10: Shaping and Polishing the Frames
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Step 11: Stitching the Frames to the Back Plates
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Step 12: Soldering the Frames to the Back Plates
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Step 13: Sawing off the Excess Backplates, Filing and Polishing
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Step 14: Sawing out the Tubes
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Step 15: Solder the Linking Tubes Together
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Step 16: Solder a length of tube onto one side of each frame
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Step 17: Solder a length of tube onto the other side of each frame
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Step 18: Finish and Polish the frames and Tubes
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Step 19: Saw out the wire for the 'T' clasp and lay out all the component parts
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Part 3 - Assembling
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Bonus Vieos
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