How to make silver jewelry?

To give an original gift, having a jewel made to measure according to the tastes of the person concerned is a sure way to please and surprise the recipient.

Whether you want to make an animal-themed piece of jewelry like here, or you want to make a personalized pendant or a personalized name ring, we have detailed it in our blog articles mentioned.

To make a jewel you need to know how to define the design of your jewel and find the right artisan jeweler who can make it.

Here we will show you how the design and production process of solid silver jewelry takes place in the laboratory of our Vivalatina jewelry store.

We invite you to follow the design and then the creation of a men’s bracelet in wood and silver.

Here you will discover other examples of custom-made silver bracelets.

Determine the design of the jewelry

As often happens, the design of this jewel was born from the idea of ​​combining silver and precious wood creating a duality of materials between the polished state and the raw state.

Two pieces of wood will then be inlaid into the jewel, separated by a silver diagonal, on one side the silver and wood will be polished and on the other they will be in their raw state for the wood and brushed for the silver.

Production then begins by making a quick 2D sketch on a sheet of paper to visualize the imagined design of the jewel in more detail, then a perspective drawing allows you to better understand the 3D rendering.

The design of the jewel to be made allows you to realize the initially imagined concept and to verify whether the result conforms to the initial idea.

As you can see here, we added silver rivets to the initial concept which reinforce the rustic side of the jewelry. Once the result is satisfactory, we move on to creating a more accurate and colorful design of the jewel to be made.

The detailed design of the jewelry allows for the different wood tones associated with silver to be represented, as well as its integration with the leather watch strap type bracelet.

Furthermore, this jewelry design is not intended to be a work of art and does not represent the state of the brushed silver that will be worked into the final rendering of the jewelry.

When you request the creation of a jewel, we follow these design phases to offer you ideas and suggest variations compared to your initial idea. You can then try different stone colors or different stone combinations to choose your favorite design.

The making of jewellery

This jewelry is made of solid rolled silver plate. The pieces are cut and then assembled by welding to form a box that houses the piece of precious wood.

The jewelry design is fully realized with the compartments for the subsequently inlaid precious wood, the silver separator and the rivets. We can then cut the pieces of wood and integrate them into the jewelry.

The wood here is glued with resin, then the resin and excess wood are removed using pomCage until it is flush with the silver edge of the jewel. One of the pieces of wood is polished while the other retains its rough appearance. The jewel is therefore almost finished, all that remains is to polish it and make the leather bracelet on which it will be mounted.

In the end we get this result to compare with the original drawing before production:

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