In this video, I document how I turned and welded an antique sterling silver bracelet into a permanent bracelet.
I had welded a permanent bracelet on this person a year ago, and she loved it so much that she brought her beloved bracelet and asked me to weld it. It was challenging because the chain was a flattened mesh pattern. We had to remove a clasp, thus removing a lot of length – I had to save as many links as I could.
I decided not to edit out my struggles of attaching the jumping in this video so that I can show you how threading chains can sometimes be a struggle – even for a veteran jeweller.
If I could do it over again, I may be tempted to enlarge the chain links with a pin. I would then flatten the links to be uniform after the welding process.
The result was excellent and she was ecstatic about the result.
