Fusing pieces of metal with a torch is a technique enjoyed by both beginners and advanced artists. It is a good way to produce snowflake jewelry by using up scraps of metal—sheet metal bits, short lengths of silver wire, broken findings, old ear wires, or collapsed metal beads.
Required Materials: Scraps/sheet/wire silver, charcoal block, sheet silver, polish, stone, silver findings, easy solder. See project for complete list.
Tools Needed: Torch, flux and pickle, solder pik, tweezers, files. See project for complete list.
Techniques Used: Metalsmithing
Originally Published: Step by Step Jewelry Gifts for the Holidays, 2002