How to make a silver bracelet by hand?

1. Silver melting: Silver is melted at high temperature, and the silver raw material is burnt to reddish brown.

2. Forging: Silver becomes soft after melting silver at high temperature, and it is easier to forge at this time. More importantly, it is necessary to avoid internal cracks caused by deformation of silver after forging, which leads to cracking of silver. After hundreds of times of repeated silver melting and forging, the appropriate length and thickness are created, and the separated silver bars are forged into the required bracelet blank.

3. Molding and grinding: After the bracelet blank is forged, the corners and contours of the blank are polished with tools such as file and sandpaper to ensure the integrity of the basic shape of the bracelet blank.

4. Carving: The silver piece of the bracelet is preliminarily completed and fixed on the special tool chopping board.

5. Young craftsmen will draw patterns on the silver blank with marker pen and carve on the surface of the silver blank according to the lines. Skilled old craftsmen have printed the scheme in their minds, and carved wonderful moire, moire, dragons and phoenixes, grass rolls, flowers and birds, fish and insects directly on silver pieces with clear stripes without drawing lines.

6. A mature craftsman has hundreds of different nails, and each nail is made by the craftsman himself. According to their own strength, preferences, feelings, to create their own nails.

7. It is very important to grasp the strength in the process of carving, so that the pattern can be better presented. Carving techniques are generally divided into line carving and relief. When the carving was finished, the whole process was only half finished.

8. Finished product polishing: Finished product polishing is a very important step. Because silver is a very soft material, the whole blank will be uneven when carving.

9. Smooth corners and contours with a file and sandpaper. Artisans will also use hanging mills and silver bars to smooth the surface of silver bars. Make the whole bracelet bright, uniform, delicate and free from dead ends, and it will not hurt your hands when you wear it.

10. Molding: The carved silver bars are circled with tools, and the handmade silver bracelet has been preliminarily completed.

1 1. polishing: polishing is to make the surface of the bracelet brighter, which is generally divided into two effects: matte and bright. Artisans will use tools such as silver bars, copper brushes and agate knives to polish them.

12. aging: the last process of hand-making-aging, blackening the surface of the bracelet with wax, then evenly spreading wax oil on the lines of the bracelet, and cooling to create a sense of the times.

13, finished product: after the final polishing and aging, the lines of the whole bracelet are clearer and the patterns are more obvious. Very retro, and the effect is very textured. A beautiful handmade silver bracelet is finished.