Elegant Slatted Sterling Silver Cuff Bracelet

hello this is pat cahill from pacquiao metalworks and today we're going to make a nice elegant little cuff and i'm going to start out i started out by drawing a line approximately nine tenths of an inch from the end on both sides and then i separated into five sections one two three four five and did with my hole punch punch poke the hole or at each one of those divisions and then using my um a ruler in my scribe nice driving line so the next step i'm going to do is drill a hole in each one of these things so let me get set up and i'll be right back so you see the setup now also i'm using a piece of uh six inches by one inch 18 gauge sterling silver flat sheet so let me get set up for drilling and i'll be right back okay so i'm using a one millimeter drill bit i'm just going to go through each one of these holes [Music] and i'll meet you at the end of this i'll do this side and this side and i'll be right back okay so the holes have been drilled and now i'm going to saw along the mark the scribe mark i did from this hole to this hole but so you put it into into your saw i'm taking the sauce normal okay we're ready to go do [Music] okay so they've all been sawn out and now we have to you've seen this me do this quite a few times but now we have to just take care of the edges inside all of these sanding them down filing sanding just make them as smooth as possible so as as always i use the um i'll bring this up a little bit i use my uh bench vise and i put it in there you don't necessarily need to do that you don't necessarily need to have a bench vise but i think it helps for for things like this it just makes it quite a bit easier so put it in there and then i'm going to see i've basically distorted it here but that's fine because they're going to end up distorted anyway we're we'll punch them right back down so after that get a nice small file barrette file would be good and take care of the edges or the corners or just the parts that you're not going to be able to get into with sand paper very easily you see that it's so take that smooth it out same as on the other side now you're gonna be totally blocked now but you know what i'm doing i'm just getting in that corner because i'm not gonna be able to get in that corner any other way than this okay so then take some a sanding stick and thread out a coarse one bring that down so you don't see any marks at all which will be obvious to you i know you're not seeing this that's why i'm not going to do much of this on camera it's just hard to see but again we're just trying to clean up these edges we don't want any we don't want any uh saw marks on our edges so there's one and go i typically go to 400 grit paper to really give it a nice smooth finish of course we'll be giving it more of a finish later on when we polish it it will get in there not only will it get in there it'll leave all the gunk on there and make it hard to get out now this is like i said this isn't a nice it's a really pretty bracelet when it gets done but it's kind of kind of finicky to make it's um it's not trivial so i'm gonna go ahead and do this clean up all these edges and then i'll get back to you okay so that's all been nicely sanded and smoothed so we're ready for the next step and i'm going to do the ends give them a nice rounded look i don't know if i've done this in other videos probably i like this look on some cuffs so you just take a a stencil template for circles align it and scribe a half an arc so do that on both sides and then we'll saw that out back the old sawing oh and this is where i get there's a video i showed you a while ago i made a while ago using these little pieces if you didn't know where they came from this is where they come uh and there you go does that little piece look familiar to you if you watch that video it would so i'm going to do this on all four corners and i'll get back to you when i'm done okay so it's all been cut out and i smoothed it by filing and then sanding and these are all nice and smooth and they'll be polished a bit on the buffing machine too so what's left to do put a mark on it sometimes you want to look at see what side looking they're both the same really okay so that's that now i'll go over and form it on the bracelet mandrel and i'll meet you over there okay make sure that you know which ones which side's up and down i've done that before and i have my mark on the outside with this type of thing i would basically handle the flat and redo it sometimes you don't have that opportunity so i got it in my nice c and i'm bringing it around my hands and forming our okay here we go simple as that okay i'll bring it back over the bench and we'll see we're gonna do your sibo together we will see what i will do next okay so the next thing i want to do is just play with these so we have one up one down actually it's down up you could do it the other way of course and then put a piece of soft something in there in this case i'm using a piece of wood and then slowly move it to the end and what you will get is it the high on this side these two middle parts but they will be lower on the other side i don't know if that made a lot of sense but you can see what happens so these two parts become these two parts and we can go on this we do the three part here do the same thing oops and just form it so that you get the look you want and you're gonna have to adjust the um the cuff again it will still maintain its nice cuff shape but it will it will it'll be just spread out on you so in that case we just take our pliers with the the plastic so we don't scratch anything and then just bring it over okay so the next step now is to um well i think to put it in the tumbler so i'm going to put it in the tumbler and let it sit there for a while that'll harden it up a little bit tumblers really don't work hard in your your silver except that they're very very very thin and that's not the case here but it will it get into all the little areas in the inside where we see some hammer marks where we made the cuff and then it'll bring it up nice and shiny and i can decide whether i want to go with a keep it as shiny or go something like a matte finish for some reason i've always done these shiny but i don't know i might do a matte finish this time okay so i'll be back okay so here's the final result so after tumbling i gave it a satin finish which i think looks very nice and there you have it very elegant cuff bracelet not too hard to do but there's a quite a bit of work involved it's just not it's not tricky there's just a lot of piercing and a lot of sanding to get the each one of those bands nice and smooth so thank you for watching and i hope to see you again sometime thank you

Channel: Pat Cahill MetalWorks

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Length: 13min 40sec (820 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 03 2020