Silver lover’s knot bracelet

Step 3

After 3 or 4 complete ‘figure of eight’ links have been made, slide the wire off the nails and align the small loop end and cut through them with a piercing saw with a 2/0 or 3/0 blade. Complete steps 2 and 3 again until you have made 14 ‘figure of eight’ links. Make sure you wind the links in the same direction every time. Draw arrows on the jig to remind you. You will need 2 ‘figure of eight’ links to make 1 unit and you will need 7 units to make the bracelet.

Step 6

Then push them together as shown.

Step 9

Use 3 of the jumprings to join up each section, leaving 2 jumprings at each end. Solder all these jumprings except for the first and last of the bracelet as these will need to be open to attach the fastening.

To Finish

Clamp a piece of wire 30mm long vertically into a third hand self closing tweezers. Paint borax on the bottom of the wire and direct your torch at it so it starts to melt. As it melts, it starts to ball up. Remove the flame. Turn the wire upside down and do the same to the other end. Solder the other half of the jumpring to the middle of the bar and attach the heart and bar to either end of the bracelet. Solder the last two jumprings closed.

Pickle for a short while in warm safety pickle, rinse thoroughly and polish. Use rouge as the final polish for a high mirror finish. Alternatively you could use liver of sulphur to darken the piece and then buff the high spots to give the bracelet an antique finish.