Bead Washers

Description

Bead Washers are Solid Silver Engraving and Stamping Blanks for creating stamped and engraved keepsake jewellery, also beautiful just by themselves. All you need to do is stamp before doming or engrave them after doming then they sit beautifully around almost any shaped European style bead. We offer text engraving or image engraving, or you can purchase metal stamp alphabets and emojis. We offer other stamping blanks here.

We found at Tree of Opals if we offer this to a client choosing a bead then many of them will choose to add it to their order, especially if they’re stamped or engraved. This is often the difference between getting a sale and the client going elsewhere, as they find it important to memorialise their loved one with writing or an image along with their hair or ashes, and breastmilk and baby jewellery clients love to see their little ones’ dates of birth etc. Blog to follow with more details! You may also find that

935 Silver Handstamped Bead Washer Tutorial Videos

@keepsakersupplies Hand stamped bead washer and annealing tutorial Part 1 #MemorialJewellery #silversmithing #handstamping #antibullying ♬ Long music box music 02-2 (no drive sound) – Icy Light

@keepsakersupplies Hand stamped bead washer and annealing tutorial Part 2 #EuropeanBead #MemorialJewelry #Argentium ♬ Long music box music 02-2 (no drive sound) – Icy Light

See the full blog here for the tutorial in-depth instructions.

Handstamping Solid Silver Bead Washer Stamping Blanks

We recommend you practice on a piece of copper if you’re new to handstamping and I have a blog to follow here. I’d recommend first purchasing a 1mm or 1.5mm height letter set in uppercase letters and numbers like this one

Etching Solid Silver Blanks

They can also be etched with images very inexpensively with saltwater or ferric chloride and Press n Peel Paper (PCB paper) or  but please do this only if you have been trained to do so safely! You can even etch by hand mechanically with an etching tip on a rotary tool with a flex shaft or just a hand engraving tool. You can use a Cricut machine to create a negative stencil with vinyl to then etch with saltwater or ferric chloride or you can buy an etching tip for the Cricut. Blog to follow and the methods are endless…

935 Silver

These Bead Washers are anti-tarnish 935 solid Argentium silver. We usually stamp the Argentium silver Solid Silver Engraving and Stamping Blanks as 935 and you can use this as a selling point, explaining to your client this is less likely to tarnish as it has a higher silver and lower copper content than 925 sterling silver. None of these settings are hallmarked (not required as they are under the UK hallmarking weight). Please see our blog on Types of Solid Silver which explains the care instructions for the silver and the metal content.

Types of Solid Silver

Silver Stamping Blanks Chain

Please note, these do not come with a necklace chain but you canadd a necklace chain here! Clients love these on a European style bracelet such as Chamilia and Pandora.

Solid Silver Bead Washers – Moulds

These Bead Washers are not suitable for adding resin and do not require a mould. They can be brazed (soldered) onto other silver creations with silver solder and they may come annealed or not – please anneal before bending and remember that 935 Argentium must be cooled slowly after heating to avoid cracks.

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