Silverwork and jewellery
H. Wilson
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, May 20, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...the bracelet which abuts on this; tie binding-wire round the whole bracelet, and solder the back-plate of the snap to the proper half of the band. File the joint clean and smooth, and release the snap by pressing the point of a file or a knife upon the spring-plate through the slot C. The thumbpiece, made of a strip of silver, can now be soldered in position, and the snap is complete. A loop may be soldered on each side for the attachment of the safety-chain if you wish, but it is not absolutely necessary. All the constructive enrichment of the band--as, for instance, a panel of filagree work, foliage, or set stones--should be done before the joint and snap are made, otherwise the bracelet may not snap or close properly. How to Make a Flexible Bracelet.--Make a number of small half-domes out of No. 5 silver. Take a silver wire, about 20 gauge, and coil it round a paper-guarded mandrel; anneal it, slip off the coils of wire, and with the saw cut off the loops one by one until you have a good number. Boil the rings clean, and arrange them together (see fig. 101) on a level piece of charcoal. Solder them all together, and solder a half-dome in the middle and a grain in the intersections of the circles. Make a number of these links, say twenty. Make a similar number with groups of three small grains added in the intersections of the circles (fig. 102). These are the ornamental loops to the chain of which the flexible part of the bracelet will be made. Take a mandrel of flattened iron or brass wire, coil a strip of thin paper round it, and Fig. 102. Bracelets after the paper flattened or half-round wire, gauge 18 or 20. Saw these links off, and with them loop the first made links in groups of three and solder each link; the three central ornamental links can be ...