Soldering is great fun and opens up a whole new world in jewellery making, but sometimes it's just as great to use materials that don't stand the heat! That's where rivets come in - a cold connection technique that holds layers of a jewellery design together without the need for a blowtorch.
This fourth class in my series moves on again through the riveting techniques, encouraging you to add more detail to your jewellery designs by using rivets that are more decorative than a simple hammered piece of wire. This time we're going to learn how to make and use more than one pin on the back of a decorative rivet. It's a little more fiddly than using just a single decorative rivet, but I really do think that it's a skill worth mastering as it allows you to securely add a larger element to the front of your design, and too hold it at a precise angle.
I do recommend that you watch the first three riveting classes in the series as this class builds on the techniques covered there. All of the riveting classes can be found in the Riveting course bundle.
50 minutes long, 10 lessons
Materials needed: class example uses silver sheet, 0.8mm silver wire, flat wooden bead, chain to finish the pendant.