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Fine Jewellery Techniques (JEW4035)

09/03/2018 - Rivets & Pivots

I love rivets.  Not needing solder to join materials together means that those materials can be ANYTHING. We’ve done blind tube rivets before where one end is soldered onto something so only one end needs flaring out.
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Our hinged ring also used wire rivets and the more recent spinner pendant had tube rivets.
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I’ve never done a pivot before, which is basically just a slightly looser rivet with a jump ring or washer in between the moving surfaces.
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I was not actually on site for this lesson as I'd had a car accident the previous day. But I did the sample at home which was simply a piece of sheet, with a square tube riveted to it at one end, and a long rectangle pivoted at the other end.
My pivot ended up a bit too tight so it's rather stiff to turn.  Tools suitable for flaring tube rivets include:
  • Scriber
  • Centre punch
  • Conical collet punch
  • Doming punch
  • Old builders plumb line weight (which is what I use at home)
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We then had to rivet a shape onto our bar brooch.
I've had a blackbird design floating round my head for months now, so decided to do that.
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  • Home
  • About Me
  • Awards
  • Commissions
  • University Projects
  • HND Blog
    • Module 8 - Specialist Practice >
      • Fine Jewellery Pendant
      • Oxford Trip
      • Goldsmiths' Precious Metal Grant >
        • PMG Prototype Research
        • PMG Prototype Build
        • PMG New Research
        • PMG New Designs
        • PMG Gold Arrived
    • Module 5 - Advanced Production Processes >
      • Project 1 - CAD Cocktail Ring >
        • Summer Holiday Work
        • Initial Design Ideas
        • Colour Theory
        • Goldsmiths' Fair
        • Rapid Design Exercise
        • Weston Beamor Visit
        • Revised Design Development
        • Photoshop Mock-Up
        • CAD - Eternity Ring
        • CAD - Split Shank Ring
        • Card Model
        • CAD - Halo Ring
        • CAD - Swooping Claw Ring
        • Market Research
        • CAD - Vase & Teacup
        • CAD - Mixed Metal Rings & Leaf
        • CAD - Rendering with Matrix
        • Final CAD - Stone Settings
        • Final CAD - Shank
        • Final CAD - Fans
        • Final CAD - Pivot & Second Trillion
        • Final CAD - Finished
        • Photoshop
        • Advert Ideas
        • Final CAD - OK Not Quite Finished
        • Panic CAD - Less Mad Design
        • Renders
        • Costings
        • Advert
        • Presentation Board
        • Submission Day
        • Post-Mortem
      • Project 2 - Laser Welding & Casting >
        • Rose Window Commission
        • Rose Window Research
        • My Gothic Obsession
        • Laser Welder Training
        • World Skills UK Final
        • Silver Ring Repair
        • Rex Claw Setting
        • Initial Design
        • Marquise Setting
        • New Design
        • Master Pattern
        • Hoops
        • Cheltenham Trip
        • Ear Hooks
        • Castings
        • Cutting up Castings
        • Hoop Earrings
        • Wedding Ring Commission
        • Stud Earrings
        • Large Oval Rex Claw
        • Drop Earrings
        • Nexgen Castings
        • Competition Entries
        • Broken Stones
        • Extra Pieces
        • Future Ideas
        • Submission Day
    • Module 6 - Faculty Live Project >
      • Brief
      • BATF Goblet
      • BAMS Medal
      • GCDC Condiment Set
      • GCDC NAJ Chair's Pin
      • GCDC Neckpiece
      • Critical Report
    • Summer Holiday 2018 >
      • Applying Gold in Jewellery
    • Optional Module - Fine Jewellery Techniques >
      • London Trip
      • Initial Ideas
      • Russian Wedding Ring
      • MAD Museum Trip
      • Rolling Ball & Spinner Ring
      • Bezel Set Rings
      • Orrery Research
      • Nikki Pugh
      • Brooch Back
      • Rivets & Pivots
      • More Research
      • Orrery Design
      • Hinges
      • Batsford Prize Entry
      • Final Build 1
      • Automata
      • Final Build 2
      • The Moon is Made of Cheese
      • Boat Automaton
      • Final Build 3
      • Final Build 4
      • Silver Brooch
      • Final Assembly
    • Module 3 - Fundamental Production Processes >
      • Project 1 - Cast Bracelet Links >
        • Initial Ideas
        • Woodchester Mansion
        • Purton Trip
        • Weston Trip
        • Design Experiments
        • Group Crit / Casting Advice
        • Link Test
        • Cutting Plan
        • Milliput
        • A Minor Diversion
        • Starting to Like My Design
        • Starting to LOVE My Design
        • Master Pattern Build
        • Sprue 1
        • Pantograph
        • Sprue 2
        • Mold Making & Cutting
        • World Skills Practice
        • The Castings Are Back
        • My Own Multiple Production Process
        • Box Clasp
        • Silver Polyfilla
        • Surplus Castings
        • Bracelet Assembly
        • Post-Mortem
        • Surprise!
      • Project 3 - Spinner Seal Pendant >
        • Initial Ideas
        • Triple Spinners
        • CAD
        • The Casting is Back
        • Tubes & Loop
        • Riveting
      • Project 2 - Carved Wax Art Medal >
        • Initial Ideas
        • Wax Carving Tool
        • Medal Reverse Idea
        • Wax Carving Practice
        • Front
        • Reverse
        • Finished Medal
    • Module 2 - Fundamental Silversmithing Skills >
      • Blocking & Planishing
      • Initial Ideas
      • Mood Boards & Other Artists
      • Research Trip
      • Spinning
      • Forging a Spoon
      • Lathe
      • Red Brick
      • Fold Forming
      • Scoring & Folding
      • Scoring Tools
      • Design Process
      • Cheltenham Trip
      • Sunny Research Trip
      • Press Forming
      • Curio Cutting
      • Sarehole Mill Trip
      • Wooden Base
      • Patinated Vase & Earrings
      • Pressed Brick Pattern
      • Aluminium Bowl
      • Final Build
      • Submission Day
    • Module 1 - Fundamental Hand Skills