Did you know you could make your own tube rivets? Well you can, and here is a great tutorial from the book Jewelry Lab: 52 Experiments, Investigations, and Explorations in Metal.
Click on these pages from Jewelry Lab: 52 Experiments, Investigations, and Explorations in Metal to enlarge and read how to make your own tube rivets.
If you like making metal jewelry then I bet you will love all the cool techniques featured in:
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Jewelry Lab uses brevity to ignite a passion for working the metals processes and learning about all the ways metal can be used. It provides aspiring metalsmiths and jewelry makers a way to learn fundamental techniques that is quick and fun. In addition to the basic skills such as sawing, drilling, soldering, and finishing, the book covers texturing, etching, rolling, coloring, patinas, forming, connections, findings, solders, bezels, rivets, and other experimental techniques.
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What a really cool technique! Esp. if you don't have rivets.
Posted by: Lynda Taylor | March 22, 2012 at 12:59 AM
Love it! That article makes the book a must have for me, lol.
Posted by: Shelley | March 31, 2012 at 05:04 AM