"Harrison Jim" Traditional technic making jewelry Native American (Navajo)Jewelry artist
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2022
- About Harrison Jim
Born in 1952. He is half Navajo and Irish. He learned silversmithing from his grand father.He also took silver smithing classes by Jesse Monongya and Tommy Jackson. His life is very traditional, therefore his jewelry is very traditional. He is known for his simple and clean designs.
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That is bad! Bad-a**!! My arm was getting sore imagining the reverberations from hammering that out! Really incredible to see someone make this starting from molten silver, it's like complete creation. From the ground up. Love it
Wow ! He is truly a SIVERSMITH in every sense of the word !!!! What talent !
Amazing. A true master silversmith. He started with an ingot, and hammered that cuff bracelet into shape.... no roller mill.
Glad to see your videos again. Love them! stay safe
I have watched his video 4 times. I can't get enough. Please update us with his latest piece. Love this man. 🙂
You are a true artist, sir.
Very nice!!!! Love your handmade work!!!
Whoah! The amount of work and muscle put into this piece of jewellery is awesome to watch. Total fabrication by hand with natural acuity is brilliant!
That is a work out!
What a talented Silversmith! Incredible all the time, effort, and precision put into his art pieces!
Love it!
A true work of art. Beautiful work. Pour talent
This video has a meditative quality. I feel like I'm right there in the room with the master
I like your patience and precision. Watched it until the end and learned. Thank you
So beautiful!
His fingers tell the whole story.
As a former Silversmith, beautiful work and bracelet 💜
loved the process, ty!
Love the process and the simple elegance of your jewelry! Just beautiful! Some seriously intricate work. Thank you for your knowledge!
Absolutely beautiful, thank you.
Magnificent work. Love watching your creations.
Fun to watch. Jim certainly has his own methods. Some say it is rough, but the end creation was beautiful. Hats off to Jim and his distinctive style. To the critics - Jim's laughing all the way to the bank!
Thank you so much. It was amazing to watch!
Thank you, for sharing your amazing creation.
Wow, amazing! Thanks so much
well done brother. best regards
Beautiful!!!!
That's Beautiful That was a LOT of work,
Incredible!
These are the people I want to meet but may not in this lifetime, the places and shops I want to go and may not and the things I want to learn and witness and may never.
Beautiful work
Desde Cuenca ecuador baya mis felicitaciones para las personas que fabrican estas hebillás que son verdaderas joyas para personas especiales que gustan de la afición de la casquería y otros.
Magnificent!!
ya earned my subscription....... just beautiful
A lot of patience and skill!!!
When the raw hide mallet isn't enough, use what the Creator blessed ya with...the hand wrench....Lol! Nice work! 💪🦬⚖️🤠
I didn’t know y’all worked a perfection about you. I thought that was a part of the lure of the craft to have a certain crudeness in the art. But after thinking about it I suppose that was in the ancient times 👍
Nice!
Harrison Jim needs better cameras and lighting. I'd LOVE to get a look as it progresses. You sure are strong to hammer like that! I can't even twist my wire easily. 😂😂😂.
Very nice cuff!
Good morning, can you show me how to do different cuts outs for bracket making? I’m learning silversmith on my own. Trying to
How many strikes to make that bracelet, 1000, 2000, 5000? I don't know but Harrison Jim is one talented man whose work is incredible. High praises to you my friend!
Cupronil is expensive. I use roach pruf and denatured alcohol in an air right container. Dip the piece in the solution and light it up. The alcohol burns off and leaves an even coat of borax. Cheaper and the ingredients are readily available. Also called Prip’s, the solution. 😊
American badass/undertaker.
🎉🎉🎉
I’d take that lump of silver and wear it proudly! Too bad a person like myself has to go through the channels paying the highest prices.
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Someone needs to buy one of those roller machines to make the silver flatten out.
About How many hours took to make this nice cuff bracelet?? Amazing 🤩
I have a beautifull turquoise cuff made by H.JIM
Hi Harrison Jim, thank you for sharing how it's done. I have a question for you. Is "Silver Black" the product that I'd use to re-blacken the background of my Hopi and or Navajo Silver Overlay Bracelets? Thanks for a reply, Sean
What type of roller mill was used in older times?
Where do you get a file like that? The make the edges have those groves like that? That is such a nice finishing detail👌
Its called a checkering file.
@@brianwilleto3094 thank you👍🏼 appreciate it. Do you know what number to order? I’m seeing all different ones online
@@user-jy4bw3zl2k that would be up to you. I have a couple old ones from the late 70's that work perfectly. They are not marked with any sizes. Sorry.
@@brianwilleto3094 ok np at all, thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. Your awesome✌️
Do they get a speacial deal on silver? all their pieces so heavy!
Why is there a sound of a drill everytime he strikes the plate? 🤔🤔🤔
This is real art. Not casted garbage.
DA
Would love to see what he's actually doing and hear about the process. This video is 60 minutes of watching a guy hammering something from across the room.
A tally he is far too rough handed to be making good quality finished work . If the end result is rough then it is perfectly understandable. Maybe that's his style okay then do be it. But by the way he's hacking into that metal peice with his large flat file up and down rather than carefully even handedly stroking the metal burrs off etc etc as all jewellery craft artists are taught from day one . His tools no doubt will not last too long either. The studio is a right pickle even hazardous . Ok that's his style and he !imes danger lolol.....so be it . I've never in my life aged now 62 , seen any jewellery artisan work so violently and unsteadily. Jewellery is a precision activity part of engineering not a heavy handed activity at all. So...yes it would be more telling and interesting to actually see him start and finish a price of jewellery completely that would seem more credible please. Otherwise he's teaching the uninitiated some very bad habits that are dangerous to say the least.
Poor cinematography...WAY too far away to see what he's doing. Pity...
Who or where did he learn his skills from???geez looks so rough .............badass is right but not careful or safe. He does not wear eye protection whilst filing that causes metal dust even moreso by the violent force he is using whilst filing.
His filing is so rough and violently never heavy-handed the strokes should be long , even smooth in one direction away from you not the way he's doing it so rough. He's attacking the metal that can cause it to fracture .
Also for the size of flame he is using he really should have some kind of fire brick wall that prevents anything being set on fire with so much stuff lying around on his work surface . It's a hazardous environment he has set up for himself with totally no safety considerations ... I often mill metal through the rolling mill but it's not necessary to use that amount of force causing the whole work bench on which the mill sits, shake so precariously..I e never seen this sort of thing in all my years in jewellery studios with anyone.
These are traditional old ways don't be disrespectful it's a different culture than yours
Omgh no awareness of health and safety at all geez that rolling mill is shaking like jelly on a wobbly surface support.
He also picked up the red hot metal and tossed it cak handedly I to either cooling water or the pickle pot no tongs nothing!!!geezcrazy crazy man. No eye glasses for close up work and he ain that young to see what he's doing close up so he might hammer his fingers or saw hem off with his jewellers saw blade!!! So heavy handed. Oh horror please!
I don't really think you've made a piece of jewelry in your life. A ring maybe? I make rings....but I don't know, maybe stick to Visual Bus ride tours in the U.K. for your expertise. Lol
You know what....I shouldnt be so judgemental right off the bat. For all I know you might be an experienced jeweler. I would just like to say that I've known quite a few of native American jewelwrs and most that I know are very knowledgeable and aware of their safety and of the techniqirs they are using to do what they do. And a lot of them have been doing it for decades. If you are a man, I'm sure you can sympathize with the therapeutic calm it gives you, as a man, to hammer a piece of metal and forge it into something of beauty.
Beautiful work