This was SO COOL to see start to finish! What an enormous amount of work, and well spent because it's a gorgeous finished product. Here's to more videos, cheers!
Amazing video, I'm looking for start in this jewelry world, and looking for technics found your video, and got the doubt, what kind of weld you use close the ring?
Thanks for watching! I used TIG welding with 309L filler metal. My welder is an Everlast 255ext. It's a full size, 220v welder so not really for jewellery but i make it work. There are jewellery specific welding machines though.
@@PunkerBuilds well I'm from Brazil and theses equipmentes are too expensive here, gonna try the silver welding and look how it goes, saw in the comments that it stays with a diferent color, but in the videos I can see it
Ahh ok, if you're not an experienced jewellery or welder, i wouldn't worry about the welding part just yet. Jewellery is traditionally "soldered" or "brazed" using silver solder or gold solder so that's an excellent place to start. Welding stainless steel is a whole thing with expensive equipment. Best of luck!
@@PunkerBuilds@PunkerBuilds would you say that I could use a spot welding machine to weld a 1.3mm round 316L stainless steel wire that I can hammer afterwards round without breaking? How did you get the round joint flush?
Thanks Nick! Solders come in 3 melting points called hard, medium and easy. So the trick is to start with hard, then switch to medium, then easy. Though every time they melt, the alloy degrades and they get a little harder to melt. So new medium solder will melt slightly easier than the solder I just recently melted. Also a weird thing working to my advantage is the poor thermal conductivity of stainless steel where it wont heat evenly. I can concentrate heat on one side and it won't transfer to the other. Thanks for asking!
Yes those sizes can be cut but it takes practice and can be a bit slow for those thicknesses. The blades come in different sizes / number of teeth. Fewer but bigger teeth works better for thick material. More but finer teeth is for thinner material. The blades are consumable and can break frequently but with practice they break less often. 3 mm mild steel can be done with patience. 2mm stainless steel has been a struggle for me.
I've mostly used swiss and antilope blades. They usually range from size 8/0 (very fine) to size 5 (coarse) and i personally mostly use size 2/0 and 2. You'll want the size 3, 4 or 5 for those thicknesses in your first comment. I also wax the back of my blades with beeswax.
You wrote on a comment about the flux, but what about the solder. Cause siver solder is much lighter and you can see the difference in color. So I need to fix that and also hopefully find some solder that does not tarnish like silver, cause that is the reason that I am working with stainless steel, rather than silver or brass
@@PunkerBuilds I was thinking about it, but I from your video, I can't figure out what are you usin and how do you do it. Cause jewelry usually have very small parts to weld
Ahh sorry, I used both methods. I used hard silver soldered with stainless steel specific fluxes on some joints but welded the band rings to make them look seamless. I am both a jeweler and a certified welder so I used my full sized 220v TIG welder. There are small jewellery welders that could do the job as well (PUK from Lampert makes good machines). I've also used a laser welder on stainless but they're extremely expensive machines.
This was SO COOL to see start to finish! What an enormous amount of work, and well spent because it's a gorgeous finished product. Here's to more videos, cheers!
Thanks Miles!
Absolutely *UNDER* viewed content *!!* This was so cool! Sending every good vibe I can think of!!!!!!!🎉🎉
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic work! The final result looks amazing 👍
Thanks for watching!
Very nice job. This turned out very unique and very cool design. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep making. God bless.
Thank you Jared!
Badass!!!
Thank you!
Amazing video, I'm looking for start in this jewelry world, and looking for technics found your video, and got the doubt, what kind of weld you use close the ring?
Thanks for watching! I used TIG welding with 309L filler metal. My welder is an Everlast 255ext. It's a full size, 220v welder so not really for jewellery but i make it work. There are jewellery specific welding machines though.
@@PunkerBuilds well I'm from Brazil and theses equipmentes are too expensive here, gonna try the silver welding and look how it goes, saw in the comments that it stays with a diferent color, but in the videos I can see it
Ahh ok, if you're not an experienced jewellery or welder, i wouldn't worry about the welding part just yet. Jewellery is traditionally "soldered" or "brazed" using silver solder or gold solder so that's an excellent place to start. Welding stainless steel is a whole thing with expensive equipment. Best of luck!
@@PunkerBuilds@PunkerBuilds would you say that I could use a spot welding machine to weld a 1.3mm round 316L stainless steel wire that I can hammer afterwards round without breaking?
How did you get the round joint flush?
The ring is beautiful. How do you keep from desoldering the joints as you layer your build? I hope that question makes sense?
Thanks Nick! Solders come in 3 melting points called hard, medium and easy. So the trick is to start with hard, then switch to medium, then easy. Though every time they melt, the alloy degrades and they get a little harder to melt. So new medium solder will melt slightly easier than the solder I just recently melted. Also a weird thing working to my advantage is the poor thermal conductivity of stainless steel where it wont heat evenly. I can concentrate heat on one side and it won't transfer to the other. Thanks for asking!
Excellent job, what is the thickness of stainless sheet used in this job?
Thank you! It's 20 gauge 304 stainless.
Did you solder silver onto stainless steel? Im trying to find out what i need to complete this task 😅
Yeah I think I used both medium and hard silver solder. Requires a "type B" flux though. I liked the black flux more.
2:40 never use this jeweler saw, but it looks quite sharp and productive... Can you cut 8...10 mm brass with it or 3 mm steel ?
Yes those sizes can be cut but it takes practice and can be a bit slow for those thicknesses. The blades come in different sizes / number of teeth. Fewer but bigger teeth works better for thick material. More but finer teeth is for thinner material. The blades are consumable and can break frequently but with practice they break less often. 3 mm mild steel can be done with patience. 2mm stainless steel has been a struggle for me.
@@PunkerBuilds thank you. What about blades - do you have some brand preferences ?
I've mostly used swiss and antilope blades. They usually range from size 8/0 (very fine) to size 5 (coarse) and i personally mostly use size 2/0 and 2. You'll want the size 3, 4 or 5 for those thicknesses in your first comment. I also wax the back of my blades with beeswax.
how many hours did this take?? without the designing part
If i made it again, i would guess around 16 hours. Maybe less.
@@PunkerBuilds wowwow thats allot of hours but very good diligent work!!
amazing video, but why don't you 3d print them then vacuum cast?, your the man tho.
Thanks for watching! Specifically because thats a bunch of equipment i don't own lol. I can do a lot of things the hard way though!
@@PunkerBuilds sorry bro its like that
Hello what is that black liquid
Hiya, thats Handy Flux Type B-1, flux for stainless steel.
You wrote on a comment about the flux, but what about the solder. Cause siver solder is much lighter and you can see the difference in color. So I need to fix that and also hopefully find some solder that does not tarnish like silver, cause that is the reason that I am working with stainless steel, rather than silver or brass
Hi, thanks for watching! I believe the only option for that color match is to weld the parts.
@@PunkerBuilds I was thinking about it, but I from your video, I can't figure out what are you usin and how do you do it. Cause jewelry usually have very small parts to weld
Ahh sorry, I used both methods. I used hard silver soldered with stainless steel specific fluxes on some joints but welded the band rings to make them look seamless. I am both a jeweler and a certified welder so I used my full sized 220v TIG welder. There are small jewellery welders that could do the job as well (PUK from Lampert makes good machines). I've also used a laser welder on stainless but they're extremely expensive machines.
Oh. Well, yes I believe that is very expensive, so I think, I will need to find another way