How to Make a Scroll Link Necklace in Silver

1. How to Make A Scroll Link Necklace in Silver: Handmade necklaces have a special touch that a machine make chain cannot match. If you're at the beginning of learning jewelry making and haven't collect too many tools yet. This course is ideal for you because all you need is just one size of wire, a few pairs of pliers and some very basic soldering tools. By finishing this course, you will have a very good practice of working with wire. A list showing all the tools and materials you need can be downloaded from the project and resource section. I use sterling silver to show you an example of making the chain in 16 inch long. You can use the same method to make yours in brass, copper, gold, and even platinum. Let's get started. 2. Project Overview: The course project is to make a scrolling necklace in the metal of your choice. It would be great if you could upload any progress pictures or the finished chain necklace in the project gallery. 3. Make the First Link: In this lesson, we are going to make the first link. Cut the 1.5 " long of the wire you have. Put it on the soldering block to a new way, so it is more workable when we bend it later. Move the fire from one end to the other. Try not to stay in one place. In this way, we can heat up the wire evenly. You can see the color on the surface of my wire turns from shiny to Mt finish. Once it's done, leave it there to cool down to room temperature slowly. Next, Fire both ends of the wire to give them a pointed shape. Use the tip of the wrong nose pliers to roll both ends to a half wrong shape. And then use the tip of the chain pliers to tug the pointed ends to form a little circle like this. You can use the flat nose pliers to make sure the shape is still flat where necessary. After that, we move on to use the step nose pliers. If you look at the two steps on the end of these pliers, one is slightly bigger than the other. We wrap the wire around the bigger step. Until the little circle reaches the wire like this. Once this is done, we wrap the other end of the wire around the same step. But in the opposite direction this time. Adjust the shape a little bit to make sure your shape is nice and neat. Use the step nose pliers to push the end. Pass where it touches the wire in order to take advantage of the tension in the material, which will hold the end tight to the wire. This is what we have got. The first link To strengthen the shape, we're going to close the joint with s. Cut a small piece of solda no bigger than one M long. Because the gap we need to join is tiny. I use hart solda here. You can use medium or easy soda. It won't make much of a difference in this project. Brush some ball rex pace on and put one tiny solder on the gap where it needs to be closed. Make sure you are doing this in a well ventilated place. If you don't have an extractor, do this in front of a window and have the window open. Heat up the shape. When the silver turns dark orange, focus the flame on the joint, and the solder will melt into the gap. 00. Foo. After this, leave it to cool down to room temperature. If you need to move it away, use a pair of tweezers. Never touch it with your bare hands. It's too hot. Up to here, we have finished making our first scroll link. It measures about 14 MM long. To make our 16 inch chain necklace, we will need more of this. In the next lesson, we're going to make the rest of the 26 languages. 4. Make the Rest of the Links: Now, we will make the rest of the lengths. Cut 26 pieces of silver out. Each of them measures 1.5 " long. When you have a lot of these, you can heat them up in boing. Move the flame evenly from one end to the other to avoid overheating them. Each of these wires measures only 1.9 diameter. Once the silver turns orange, you know you need to move the flame. File all the tips to be a bit pointed. Use round nose pliers and chain nose pliers to roll every single tip to a little circle. And then wrap the wire around the step nose pliers in two opposite directions. Take your time to do this. Your attention to detail will show up in the quality of the finish chain. Finally, close all the gaps with a tiny bit of soda. As this is a repeating process, you will find that you are making it faster and faster. It will become easier when it's towards the end. These are what we have got after all the hard work. In the next lesson, we're going to make the jumpings to connect all these legs together. 5. Make All the Jump Rings: In this lesson, we are going to make 28 jump ings to join all the scroll lens. This is the wire we got left after making the scroll lens. To avoid de bouncing back when we bend it later, let's heat up this row. To get it to heat up, we move the flame around the entire row. Once the shiny surface turns to a mat finish, it's done. Leave it to cool down to room temperature. Wrap the wire around the smallest step on the pliers 28 times. Use the metal shear to cut the jumpings of the coil. With all the jumps ready in the next lesson, we're going to join all the lens together. 6. Link Everything Up: T. In this lesson, we are going to link everything up. Open one jumping with the chain nose pliers. Put two scroll lengths in. And then close the jumping with the help of the flat nose pliers. Here, we have two lengths joined together. We need to do this to the rest of the jumpings. This is how it looks after all the scroll lengths are joined. In the next lesson, we're going to melt some soda on the dumps. So they will be permanently, and we will have at a necklace. 7. Permanently Close All the Links: Now, all the scroll lings are connected together with our jump pings. We're going to permanently close each of them. Hold the dumplings with the cross log tweezers. The opening is facing upwards and not covered with anything like this. Cut some small piece of solder with the metal cutter. Each piece of solder is about one M long. Put them aside for later use. Brush some borax paste on the joint. Use the blow torch to heat up the jumping to get the water evaporated, and only the box left on the surface. Use the precision tweezers to place one piece of solder on the gap. Evenly heat up the jumping. Once the jumping turns dark orange, quickly move the flame to focus on the joint that we want the solder to melt into. You can also use the soldering pick to help push the sold into place. After the first one is done, do the same to the second one and the rest of the jumpings on the chain. It's very important when the chain is hot, make sure that you only touch it with the tweets. Once all the dump lings are soldered, leave the entire chain to cool down to room temperature before picking it up with your hands. This is what we have so far. If you pay attention to the lens, the direction they face are out of our control. In the next lesson, we're going to get this fixed. 8. Make the Links Uniform: T. In this lesson, we are going to make all the lens phase one direction. The chain will lay flat on our skin. This is the first jumping at one end of our chain. Rotate the jumping. The solder is touching one of the scrolls. Hold the jumping at this position. Next, we use the parallel pliers to squeeze the wrong jumping. The gap between the jumping will be almost the same width as the diameter of the wire. But the squall lens can still move freely like this. Do the same to the rest of the 25 jump rings. This is how it looks after that. All of our score lengths face the same direction. If we measure the chain now, It's just under 16 " long. In the next lesson, we will put the clasp on and this will make the necklace to be 16 ". Okay. 9. Put A Clasp On: In this lesson, we are going to make this chain we arable by putting a clasp on. As we have two jump pings left, at both ends of the chain. We put one jumping on. Melt a small piece of sold to close one of these jump pings. We squeeze these two jump pings to an oval shape, just like what we did to the rest of them. For the jumping on the other side, put the lobster clap on before closing it. In this w, our chain necklace will have a clap. Now, this necklace is fully assembled. In the next lesson, we will clean it and give it a finishing touch. 10. Clean the Chain Necklace: In this lesson, we will clean our chain necklace. Follow the manufacturer's instructions to make your safety pakle. Merge your necklace into the mixture, leave it there for about 30 minutes. This will remove all the stain and flux residue on the surface. Make sure the mixture is cool down to room temperature and then pick up the chain with a pair of copper tweezers or bamboo chop sticks. Some people might get allergic to the mixture, so don't touch that with your bare hand. Rinse it thoroughly with tap water and pat dry with some cotton cloth. Put it in a rotary tumbler and turn the machine on for about 30 minutes. When using the tumbler, follow the instruction by the manufacturer. Here's our shiny scrolling necklace. Each link measures about five M wide and 0.9 M. Every single link is carefully soldered. A face the same direction as we wish. This 16 inch chain necklace weighs 9.6 gram. You won't get this quality from any machine made chain necklaces. Coming up, final thoughts. Oh. 11. Final Thoughts: Thanks for finishing this class. I hope you enjoy it. I can't wait to see your progress pictures and the chain necklace you have made. If you like this class, you might want to check out my other skill share classes as well. I will see you in the next one.