Compared with the bought silver ring, the handmade silver ring is more memorable. Nowadays, many young people can make it by hand, and the making of handmade silver rings is not complicated. The tools needed for DIY handmade silver rings mainly include:
1, wood ring clamp
The wooden ring fixture with leather claws is used to firmly and safely clamp the workpiece without damaging the surface of the metal workpiece.
2. Parallel pliers
This kind of pliers has parallel jaws with openings in the front, unlike other pliers whose front ends are closed, so it can be used to clamp the workpiece without damaging it.
3, steel rule
A steel ruler with metric and English standard sizes is an essential tool.
4.scissors
Scissors are necessary to cut wires, solder, metal wires and even smaller metal sheets.
Step 5 make materials
Leather, placed under the board in the center of the table, is used to make molds (brass pieces, silver pieces, silver wires).
6. Ring bar
This tapered steel bar is used to shape the ring after annealing.
7. Reverse pliers
Clamp the workpiece with pliers when welding, and clamp the solder with pliers when using the welding rod.
8, semi-circular flat nose pliers
It is used to bend the metal into a seamless shape, and one side of the semicircle is used to clamp the inside of the curve.
9, borax plate and cone
The flux is made by coating a plate with a little borax powder and adding a little water.
10, welding net
The welded net looks like a metal bird's nest. When an object is welded on the net, the welding net will help it radiate heat evenly, and the wires on the net can also move to form different support points.
1 1, charcoal block
Carbon blocks are used in the heating process, especially when processing small workpieces requires high temperature. Charcoal can control the heat, so that it does not dissipate quickly, and it takes less time and energy to reach the required temperature.
12, flat metal block (commonly known as Dafang iron)
Flat metal blocks are used to assist forging. Forging on a table or sandbag can reduce the noise of hammering. When working, the flat metal block provides a hard and compressive plane, thus avoiding the deformation phenomenon after the metal plate hits the wooden plane.
13, hand drill
The drill bit of this hand drill is very small, aiming at the position to be drilled, and rotating while pushing.
14, flat hammer with round head or wedge hammer with round head
This hammer can be used to make light jewelry and riveting, and also can be used to do some fine decoration work. The flat end of the hammer can be used for riveting and other small jobs. If the other end of the hammer is wedge-shaped, it can be used to texture the metal.
15, file and needle file
The quality of documents varies greatly, so buy the best you can afford. Flat file: because of its flat surface, it is often used to file the butt joint of two workpieces to facilitate welding, and can also be used to file internal curves and edges; Semi-circular file: used for filing internal curves and edges; Triangular file: a groove used to file the upper edge, right angle and other edges of a circular bevel; Square file: used for filing right angle and inside area; Knife file: one side of the file is thick and the other side is thin, which can be inserted into the gap file. Large semi-circular file: A large semi-circular file can be used to clean the inner surface and inner curve of the ring.
16, flat hammer
The flat hammer is used to remove the hammer marks caused by other hammers, and even to remove the texture on the metal surface. One end of the flat hammer is completely flat, and the other end has a little gentle face. The two hammer surfaces should always be highly smooth, so as not to make the hammered metal surface uneven and smooth.
Second, the method of making handmade silver rings
After preparing the tools and materials, you can start making the silver ring. The process of making handmade silver rings is divided into the following steps:
1, molten silver
Any exquisite silver ornaments should be made of molten silver. First, put the broken silver into a small crucible, and heat the broken silver in the crucible with a welding torch. At the same time, adding a little borax will dissolve the oxide on the surface of silver, make silver more pure and help silver melt quickly. Borax should be added several times. The melting point of silver is 960℃. When the silver in the crucible is heated to a high temperature above 960℃, the silver begins to melt. Make melted silver into silver pieces for later use.
2. Silver foil pressing
Flatten the melted silver hammer and put it into a tablet press. The tabletting process should be repeated, thinner every time, and finally the silver material should be pressed into silver pieces with a thickness of about two millimeters. Cut the silver piece into a rectangle one centimeter wide with scissors.
3. Heat treatment
The pressed silver sheet is annealed. Annealing is to slowly heat the silver material made of molten silver to a certain temperature with a welding gun and ensure enough time. Used to remove the rigidity of silver itself, its purpose is to improve the plasticity and toughness of silver materials and make the chemical composition of silver materials uniform.
Step 4 amend
Winding the annealed silver sheet on the ring iron, making it into the shape of a ring according to the size of a finger, cutting off excess silver with scissors, and welding the ring. Put the cooled ring on the ring iron and beat the ring with a hammer to make it more round. After polishing the inside of the ring with a suspension grinder.
Step 5 boil silver
Put the welded ring in water with alum to boil silver. Alum, commonly known as alum, has strong adsorption, does not react with silver, and can wash away impurities, making silverware appear whiter. Boiling the ring with heated alum water can remove impurities left on the ring during welding, and also dissolve borax used during welding to improve the purity of jewelry. Take out the silver ring and polish its surface for the second time with hanging mill. Next, we will do some decorations for this ring. We need to use silver thread, which is drawn by silver bars.
Step 6 wire drawing
Take out a thin silver bar and file one end of the silver bar with a file. Take out the wire drawing plate. The main purpose of the line drawing board is to draw silver lines. Put the polished end of the silver bar into the lower end of the wire drawing plate. Clamp the silver bar at the upper end of the wire drawing plate with pliers and pull it out hard. The diameter of the round hole on the wire drawing plate decreases in turn, and the drawn wire is thin and symmetrical. If you want to draw the required thin silver line, you need to draw lines repeatedly on holes with different diameters.
Fix the ring on the welding plate with a gourd clamp and anneal the silver wire. Weld one end of that silver wire with the middle position of the circular re, and winding the silver wire on both sides of the circular re in turn. In the process of coiling, the silver beads are threaded on the silver thread and coiled on the ring. The design and production of each piece of silver jewelry has certain significance. The significance of this work is: slender silver lines are like flowing streams, bypassing the barriers of pebbles and flowing between fingers. Put the wrapped silver thread in order to avoid loosening. Cut off the excess silver thread with scissors. Use needle-nosed pliers to collect the silver thread ends into the silver beads. And proper welding is carried out to fix it. Put the arranged ring into heated alum water to remove impurities.
7. Amendment
Finally, brush it with a copper wire brush repeatedly. In this way, a fashionable silver ring is made.