Home Jeweler – The Alluring Bead Boutique

A Jeweler's Life, Handmade Components and Wire Wrapping, Jewelry Projects, Jewelry Techniques, Metal Forming Basics, Metalsmithing Jewelry, Wire Components, Wire Jewelry

Handmade Components without Soldering

November 12, 2019
0 comments
by Detrina Kofroth

I have published several posts in the mini-series Handmade Components over the last few weeks. The focus was on using soldering techniques to create the base components. Today, I want to share a technique for creating a base component using basic wire wrapping techniques. I will present the tutorials in two video tutorials. In the […]

A Jeweler's Life, Handmade Components and Wire Wrapping, Jewelry Projects, Jewelry Techniques, Wire Jewelry, Wire Wrapping Techniques

Metalsmithing 101 – Handmade Components – Wire Wrapping Bronze Diamonds

November 1, 2019
0 comments
by Detrina Kofroth

Hello and welcome back to my mini-series, Handmade Components. Today, I am going to walk you through a simple organic way to add embellishment to the Bronze Diamond Components we made a few weeks ago, and offer a few different accent options along the way. Tools and Materials I will be using the Bronze Diamond Components I […]

A Jeweler's Life, Handmade Components and Wire Wrapping, Jewelry Projects, Jewelry Techniques, Wire Jewelry, Wire Wrapping Techniques

Handmade Components – Wire Wrapped Copper Ovals

October 29, 2019
0 comments
by Detrina Kofroth

Hello and welcome back to my mini-series, Handmade Components. Today, I am going to walk you through a simple yet elegant way to add embellishment to the Copper Ovals with Eye Loops, we made a few weeks ago. In today’s tutorial, I will demo how to make both versions of the component shown here. Let’s […]

A Jeweler's Life, Handmade Components and Wire Wrapping, Jewelry Projects, Jewelry Techniques, Wire Jewelry, Wire Wrapping Techniques

Metalsmithing 101 – Handmade Components – Wire Wrapping Brass Ovals

October 25, 2019
0 comments
by Detrina Kofroth

Hello and welcome back to my mini-series, Handmade Components. Today, I am going to walk you through a simple yet elegant way to add adornments to the Brass Ovals with Eye Loop, we made a few weeks ago. I am really pleased with the way my projects turned out and want to share the technique. […]

A Jeweler's Life, Handmade Components and Wire Wrapping, Jewelry Projects, Jewelry Techniques, Metal Forming Basics, Metalsmithing Jewelry, Soldering Basics, Wire Components, Wire Jewelry

Metalsmithing 101 – Handmade Components – Bronze Diamond

October 18, 2019
0 comments
by Detrina Kofroth

Making Matching Components for your Jewelry Design Welcome to the third installment of the Handmade Components series. So far, we have made two versions of the ever popular oval component, each with an eye loop. Today, I am going to walk you through the process I used for creating these gorgeous diamond shape Bronze components. […]

A Jeweler's Life, Handmade Components and Wire Wrapping, Jewelry Projects, Jewelry Techniques, Metal Forming Basics, Metalsmithing Jewelry, Soldering Basics, Wire Components, Wire Jewelry

Metalsmithing 101 – Handmade Components – Copper Oval with Eye Loop

October 15, 2019
0 comments
by Detrina Kofroth

Making Matching Components for your Jewelry Design Hello and welcome back to my miniseries in Metalsmithing Jewelry. In the last post, we reviewed the step by step tutorial for a Brass Oval With Eye Loop. I showed you one technique for making near perfect matching components. Today we are going to take a look at […]