12 Months Of Metal Challenge With Make It Kim
Watch Monthly Round Ups
January: Basic Cutting & Texturing For Jewellery Making
Kim Thomson shares her top tips on cutting metal, polishing and texturing your handmade jewellery designs.
February: Sawing Metal For Jewellery Making
Follow Kim's tutorials on how to use a jewellers saw, inserting saw blades, piercing internal shapes and cutting more than one piece of metal at the same time.
March: Forming Metal
Kim shares tutorials on doming, work hardening metal, annealing and making wire earrings!
April: Soldering Tutorials For Jewellery Making
Kim walks you through the soldering process, tools needed, types of solder, flux and techniques.
May: Cabochon Setting Tutorials
Kim shares tutorials on using pre-made cabochon settings and creating your own settings for jewellery making.
June: How To Use A Rolling Mill
Kim shares her top tips and tutorial on how to use a rolling mill to texture your jewellery designs
July: Riveting & Cold Connections For Jewellery Making
Kim shares her top tips and tutorials on cold connections including riveting.
August: Metal Etching Tutorials
Kim Thomson shares her top tips on electro etching metal for your jewellery designs.
September: Claw Setting Tutorials
Kim Thomson shares some brilliant tutorials on how to make your own claw settings as well as how to use pre-made settings too.
October: Reticulation Tutorials
Kim Thomson shows us brilliant tutorials on how to achieve reticulation on silver.
Find Out More About The Challenge...
Is 2019 the year you dive into silversmithing?
Kim Thomson is going back to basics with a brand new challenge! Each month Kim will be focusing on different skills and tools, documenting demos, tutorials, tricks and tips all on her Instagram page 'Make It Kim Today'.
You will be able to find all the information for each month on this blog page - including all of Kim's videos and tips so you have a great resource to turn to. Not only this, we'll provide you with a list of supplies for each month, so you can follow along with Kim at home.
Kim - "I wholeheartedly believe that jewellery silversmithing doesn't have to be expensive, you can create beautiful ranges of jewellery with minimal tools and
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Who Is Kim?
Kim Thomson is a silversmith who has been a customer of Kernowcraft for 20 years. Kim lives in Bristol and runs her own jewellery making workshops.
You may recognise Kim from doing the 100 Days Of Silver Challenge #MISilverChallenge in 2018, where she created 100 different designs using the same piece of silver.