One of the joys I've found with making bangles is the infinite variety of designs you can make. I use a lot of copper for bangles and up to fairly recently most of my designs have been made from round wire that I've hammered. It wasn't until I had a custom request for a "bark" texture bangle in sterling {think flattened shape with hammered line marks} that I made my first flat bangle. Having a flat surface gives you more options for design so I decided to try some etched patterns on the flat style bangles. I started with lengths of the round copper wire which I annealed to soften it then rolled it through the rolling mill until it was flat enough for what I wanted to do. I then annealed the flattened wire and straightened it on a steel block before cutting it to size and filing the ends flat The bangles ready for soldering. After soldering the bangles, cleaning up and shaping them the next step was to apply the resis...
silver copper bronze enamel