Giving old jewellery new life-necklace to bangle
As part of my ongoing series about remodeling old jewellery, this originally came to me as silver necklace, and the client wanted a square bangle made out of the silver. This entailed me melting down the silver into two new ingots, and then alot of hammering. I made a hinge and partially reused the box clasp from the original necklace. It was challenging working with such thick metal, but satisfying!
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The final bangle
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Started from this cool articulated necklace-I had to remove the pins and solder from each and every link in the necklace by sawing through the links before I could make my ingot- it took a loooooooong time!
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Didn’t manage to take a photo of the individual ingots, but I made two separate ingots, then had to press the metal, and hammer it out before bending them into shape. Each one is pretty thick, so there was lots of banging!
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Preparing the bangle to make a seat for the hinge.
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Hinge was attached, all that was left was to even up the lengths, put the clasp on it, and finish the metal!
I was really pleased with how this turned out, and the client seemed delighted.
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