Store-bought displays for your handmade jewelry can be expensive, and sometimes it’s hard to find ones that fit with the rest of your jewelry booth or your brand colors. But guess what? It’s easy to make your own professional looking ring display, and you can customize it to fit in with the rest of…
How to Make a Single Sliding Knot Closure {Video}
Sliding knots come in very handy when making casual bracelets such as friendship bracelets, shambhala style bracelets, or other macrame braclets and necklaces using leather or cord. It’s also nice to have a one-size-fits-all solution if you’re selling jewelry online where people are unable to try your handmade jewelry on for size. This video shows…
Spiral Twist Hand Drill for Jewelry Making {Video Demo}
You don’t need a fancy rotary tool or even an electric power drill to be able to drill through soft metals for jewelry making! A Jeweler’s Spiral Twist Hand Drill is entirely hand operated and very easy to use for drilling small holes in silver, brass, copper, aluminum, and gold. You can also use it…
How to Make Bullet Shell Pendants {Video}
Bullet shell jewelry is all the rage these days, and it’s no wonder! This video tutorial shows you step by step how to make your own cool pendants using spent bullet shell casings and quartz crystal points. You’ll learn how to saw them off, drill a hole, and attach the bead. You won’t want to…
Quick Copper and Brass Cleaning Trick
When I was a little girl, one of my favorite things to do was clean my pennies and make them nice and shiny, which is how I know this trick. I’m sure that it probably says something about me that I would rather play with money than dolls even when I was in grade school,…
