Simple Beginnings: Soldering Jewelry: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Your Own Necklaces, Bracelets, Rings & More

Soldering is a popular jewelry-making technique that can produce beautiful results, but if you’ve never had the chance to pick up a soldering iron, the process can seem daunting. Where can you find the tools you will need? What do you do with them once you have them? And what materials should you work with? In Simple Beginnings: Soldering Jewelry, renowned artist Suzann Sladcik Wilson will put all these questions to rest. Wilson will take you to the very beginning of the soldering process and teach you about the tools you will need and the materials you should buy. Then, she will take you step-by-step through the basic soldering techniques you will need to know to create your own woks of art using copper foil. Projects for beginner, intermediate, and advanced craft enthusiasts are included, ensuring that you’ll always have something new to inspire and create as your skills increase. Use this book to make pendants, bracelets, earrings, frames, and more, all in your own unique, creative style. Get started today!

Wilson has been published in Bead Style, Simply Beads Magazine, Bead Trends, and in the books Four Seasons of Beading and Earrings, Earrings, Earrings!. Wilson has been a guest on Military Mom Radio and Motherhood Talk Radio, each show reaching 60,000 listeners. Additionally, Wilson has been a substitute host on the Her Insight Radio Network. She is also a Professional Designer Member of the Craft and Hobby Association, and in January 2011 received the coveted Craft and Hobby Association Designer Press Kit award for an innovative necklace design. She attended Loyola University of Chicago, earning her bachelor’s degree in education.

Intro

Chapter 1: Tools & Supplies

Chapter 2: Project Materials

Chapter 3: Beading 101

Chapter 4: Simple Steps for Making a Pendant (SBS)

Chapter 5: Simple Steps for Soldering (SBS cont'd)

Chapter 6: Jewelry Designs (Pendants, Necklaces, Bracelets, Other Jewelry)

Inspirational Ideas

Appendix

Soldering FAQs