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Riveting Part 4 - Double Decorative Rivets

Learn how to add non-solderable materials to your jewellery with these versatile cold-connection techniques.

About the Class

Soldering opens up a huge range of possibilities in jewellery making, but sometimes it’s just as useful to work with materials that cannot withstand heat. That’s where riveting comes in — a cold connection technique that allows you to join layers together securely without using a blowtorch.

This fourth class in my riveting series continues to build on the earlier techniques and introduces more advanced decorative rivets with multiple pins on the back rather than a single wire connection.

Although this technique is a little more fiddly than the earlier riveting projects, it is a wonderfully useful skill to learn because it allows you to attach larger decorative elements securely while also controlling their exact position and angle within your design.

In the class, I’ll guide you step by step through planning, positioning, and attaching these more detailed rivets so that the process feels manageable and clear. Once mastered, this technique opens up many more creative possibilities for layering shapes, adding decorative focal points, and combining different materials within your jewellery designs.

All classes in the Riveting series are part of the Jeweller's Bench membership - click here for more details

If you need any extra help as you work your way through the classes do join us over on The Jeweller's Bench Café group over on Facebook - the perfect place to ask for advice and to show off what you've been making.

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You will need:

Materials:
* Sterling silver sheet for the decoration
* 0.8mm silver wire
* flat wooden bead
* chain to finish the pendant.

Equipment: (all the jewellery making kit listed here can be used for many different projects)
* Soldering kit - see here for more details
* Riveting hammer
* Jeweller’s saw and saw blade
* Bench peg
* Needle files
* Ruler and sharpie
* Wire cutters, nylon jaw pliers, flat nose pliers and round nose pliers
* Drill and 0.8mm drill bit
* Rubber block

An explanation of all the tools and materials that you need is included in the videos, and a downloadable equipment and materials list is available with the class.    

50 minutes long, 10 lessons

Course Curriculum

Reviews

"Lovely and clear, has made me really think over some future projects."
Jennie G.
"Great class, clear instructions. I made my necklace using a flower cut out of a beautiful old biscuit tin!"
Sara P.
"This is really clear and extremely inspiring."
Dawn G.

Joanne Tinley

Tutor and Founder of The Jeweller's Bench

The Jeweller's Bench is run by Joanne Tinley. She has been making her own jewellery for as long as she can remember and left her first career as a school teacher to set up business as a jewellery designer and tutor nearly 20 years ago. She is
self-taught and like many people started with wire and beads. Learning how to solder, however, opened up a whole new world of jewellery making,  one that she is keen to share!

Legal Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to show safe working practices and to discuss health and safety aspects of jewellery making, but in the end I cannot take responsibility for how the tutorial information is used and how safely you work. Take the effort to set up your work area safely right from the start!
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