How Do You Make A Sterling Silver & Amethyst Riveted Flower Pin?
Just like suits, pins never go out of style! Here is a great way to showcase your focal beads. Create this lovely floral and amethyst pin and wear it on your favorite suit. This tutorial combines a number of basic jewelry fabrication skills. These include: sawing & piercing, soldering, forming a balled head pin, creating a pin back finding and riveting a bead as a setting technique. Make or purchase a round 18 gauge 1-1/2 inch disc. Draw a flower on the disk with a sharpie pen. Hint: Cookie cutters and clay tools are excellent choices to use as templates if you are not comfortable drawing free hand. Chose a point on the line of your drawing and create a dimple with the center punch to prepare the metal for piercing. The dimple created by the center punch will prevent the drill from slipping and marring the metal or causing you injury during the drilling process. Pierce the disk with a drill and saw out the flower from the center of the disk. The disk will frame the flower, which will b
