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Silversmithing in Three Minutes on CDs

Don Norris

One Full Year, 2007 Offer

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October 2006

This is the first five of my Classes on CD by using video clips.

Three Minutes to Understanding Torches (3 full CDs, 3 hours of lessons!)

Nearly all torches used for Silversmithing will be discussed and demonstrated.

The pros and cons of each will be covered. Where to buy them, how to set them up, light them, and safety factors will be included for each torch.

I will cover the 10 good reasons why I only use Hard silver solder for all soldering.

I will also cover ten good reasons for never using Easy and Medium solder.

You will be able to watch while I solder and explain why using only hard solder makes your soldering easier, faster, and it makes better jewelry!

You find out why I say that "Hard" solder should be renamed "Easy to Use" solder.

Learn Soldering in Three Minutes (2 full CDs, 2 hours of how to solder for making jewelry!)

I will cover everything you need to know to make using a torch and soldering for jewelry making.

It will make soldering easy for you. It will discuss everything from fluxing, placing the solder, torch placement, how you can keep from melting pieces. It will also cover types of solder and why I use sheet solder.

Three Minute Silversmithing Project

This project is a solid band ring with a snap tight set stone.

Three Minutes to Make a Perfect Bezel

Over the past 36 years of teaching Silversmithing I have had many experienced Silversmiths tell me that my way of making bezels was worth the entire cost of the class ($300.00).

Three Minutes to Making Soldered Chains (2 full CDs, 2 hours of how to make two nice soldered link chains.

I will show you how to make two nice chains with all the links soldered.

I also show you how to use "pick" soldering to make these chains easy and fast!

November 2006

Three Minutes to Learn How to Use a Jeweler's Saw

I will teach you how to use a jeweler's saw without breaking the blades by cutting out a shape and demonstrating a "pierce and cut" project.

Soldering Down a Bezel in Three Minutes

One of the questions I always get is how to solder a bezel down to the sheet without melting it.

It is easy to do if you use the techniques that I show you, and I will show how it is impossible to melt a bezel once it is soldered down to the sheet.

Three Minute Silversmithing Project: Solid Band Ring

I will teach you how to make a textured solid band ring so that it is easy and fast to complete.

These can be very profitable!

Three Minutes to Understand the Chemicals Used in Silversmithing

I cover the use of, safety factors, and storage of flux, pickle, oxidizer.

I also teach about patinas for Silver, and how to put the pretty blue-green patina on copper.

Impromptu Wire Wrapping Class in Three Minutes

I show you how to take the work out of, and put the profit into, wire wrapping.

I teach how to use the "Hippy Dippy" knot, how to use a Rock Wrap, how to make you own solderless Rock Wraps!

I also show you how to do a traditional wire wrapping project with Sterling Silver 20 gauge round wire.

December 2006

Soldering Hollow Forms

All the steps necessary to plan and contruct a a hollow form are shown in easy to follow and accomplish steps.

Using Snap Tight Heads and Bezel Caps

Three Minute Silversmithing Project: Bean and Pine Needle Casting

This class will show you how to use your scrap Silver and gold, even pewter to cast it into very profitable projects.

You will be shown how to melt and cast the metal into pinto beans or pine needles to create one of kind pieces.

Channel Work

How to plan, cut strips and solder a channel work project that will be used in a future class for Chip Inlay.

Making a Crotched Chain

I will show you how to make a hand made chain by crotching with the most simple tool and technique.

You will be amazed at how simple this chain is to make and how it moves like a link chain when finished.

January 2007

Overlay and Sweat Soldering

We have all seen the rings, bracelets, and pendants that have polished surfaces with depressed areas that are blackened. I will show you the technique of “overlay”. Simply put this is the process of cutting out designs, usually with the pierce and cut method, in one sheet of metal. Then “sweat” soldering this piece down on top of a second sheet. We also call this “Overlay”. Simple overlay projects are a good way to sharpen your soldering skills.

Polishing: Buffing

How to polish by buffing using large buffers and how to tumble “polish” will be covered in detail. I will explain why I always teach that “tumbling is not polishing, it is burnishing.” I will be showing how to make a buffer out of a $35.00 grinder from a hardware store. We will show why fire coat, fire stain, fire scale (all the same thing) is no problem, no match for the way I have learned to polish Sterling Silver over the past 35 years. This is will be a good class for both people that are Silversmiths for soldered projects and Wire Wrappers.

Three Minute Silversmithing Simple Project: Hearts

We will explore as many possibilities to use the “heart” form to produce simple, easy, and fast pieces. They will profitable pieces as well for those that wish to make and market them. Wire Wrappers and Silversmiths will enjoy these simple projects. I will also use stones, some with solder bezels and heads, and some beads with these projects.

Ways To Use A Drill

A drill not only can be an important and useful tool in jewelry making, but it can be a tool that opens up a whole new world of design and fun! Of course it can drill holes, but it also can be used to create incredible doodads (art speak: enhancements and embellishments) for your pieces. I will show you a couple of bracelets that amazed me when I learn how to make them over 30 years ago. Many of the projects shown in this class can be made with no Silversmithing (soldering) skills.

Making Bails

Bails are the part of a pendant that holds the pendant onto the chain. I will show you how to make a half dozen or so bails and how to solder them on to your pieces and to insure they hang in the way that you wish.

February 2007

How To Make Leaves

A class on how to make Silver leaves from scratch with sheet and wire to be used for Silversmithing or wire wrapping projects. A variety of leaves and flowers can be made using these techniques, and I will show you the simple and easy method use to make them.

Earring Posts and Pin Backs

A class on how to solder on earring posts, tie tack posts, and how to make your own pin backs. Fast and easy, as usual, but, some information about your customers safety is included. My mass production for earrings will be covered to make Earring profitable.

Simple Project: Mother's Day Pendants

A fun class on some unique, but simple and fast, ways to make some Mother's Day gifts or sellable “family” pieces with birthstones. Perfect for making for, and taking to Crafts shows. I will add some suggestions on how to add on more sales to the original order, too!

Chip Inlay

A class that will cover how to use chips of turquoise, malachite, jet, coral, and mother of pearl for inlay. I will chip inlay the piece that I made in December, 2006 video class, "Channel Work". This class will cover crushing the stones, sorting out the chips, inlaying them into the spaces of a project, grinding and polishing the finished piece.

Polishing: Tumbling

A class on how to polish your Silversmithing projects using a tumbler. An experiment on what to use in the tumbler comes out very interesting and even surprising to me.