How to Make Beautiful Jewelry

Summary: Do you have an idea for a beautiful necklace design? From earrings and bracelets to single stranded and elaborate multi-stranded necklaces, creating your own jewelry is fun, easy to learn, and can even be done at home. All it takes is the desire to create, the willingness to learn, and finally practicing your newly acquired craft. Making your own jewelry is a fun way to express your creative fashion talents. Whether you want to work with beads, stones, gems, metals, hemp or any other material, the basic construction methods are fairly simple. Custom handmade jewelry also makes a fine gift for birthdays or holidays.

In this free video series, our expert DJ Poye will teach you how to make jewelry. She will show you the tools you'll need to sketch and design new pieces of jewelry. DJ will show you every step to making the jewelry you designed including how to glue the sketch to the metal, how to draw more complex pieces, how to prepare the saw and start cutting the piece, how to drill and punch out the interior spaces, how to remove the tracing paper, and how to initial and mark the piece of jewelry. DJ will then show you how to brush, texture, smooth, file, & polish the piece, how to hammer it, how to make a bale for the chain, how to solder the piece, and how to use pickling solution to clean it. She'll then show you how to finish the piece by buffing and polishing the jewelry, she'll do a final clean, and then show you where she might put some gemstones in it. When this series is done, you'll have seen a beautiful piece of jewelry made from start to finish!