Glass fibre scratch brushes are a useful tool for cleaning silver prior to soldering, or to produce a matt surface finish. They are best use...
Friday, 31 May 2013
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Stone Setting Tools
Burnishers Burnishers are hard, smooth bladed hand tools used to manipulate metal in a variety of ways. The highly polished blades are firm...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Silver Soldering - Preventing Solder Flow
There are two primary reasons for avoiding solder flow: If solder flows into the wrong location. Solder that flows into a moving part will c...
Monday, 21 January 2013
Barrel Polishing
Small barrel polishers offer an efficient, clean method of polishing small articles for the hobbyist jeweller. Polishing by hand using tradi...
Friday, 18 January 2013
Barrel Polishing - Types of Barrel
The drums used by barrel polishers are commonly made from either plastic or rubber: Plastic Plastic drum lids will be easier to push on an...
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Barrel Polishing - Cleaning Compound
To aid with cleaning, a small amount of barrelling compound should be added to the water. This is a type of cleaner specifically designed to...
Barrel Polishing - Steel Shot
Steel shot is comprised of differently sized tiny shapes, usually a mixture of balls, pins, and rods. The pins are especially useful for pol...
Barrel Polishers
Alternative names for barrel polishers include: jewellery tumblers, lapidary tumblers, stone tumblers, or rotary tumblers. A barrel polish...
Barrel Polishing - Surface Preparation
The surface of the object to be polished should be pickled to clean it, and the pickle rinsed off. All surface scratches should also be remo...
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Mallet Types
Mallets should be used in place of hammers when it is important that the metal should not be marked or thinned during the work process. W...
Hammer Types
Ball Peen This common type (also known as a Jobbing hammer) has two faces: one flat circular face, and one hemispherical face used for sprea...
Monday, 14 January 2013
Using Radial Bristle Discs
Radial bristle discs are manufactured from a flexible material mounted onto a spindle, and are intended for use in rotary hand tools. The br...
Monday, 7 January 2013
Scotch-Brite Radial Disc Grades
Available grades Grade Colour 36 grit Brown 50 grit Green 80 grit Yellow 120 grit White 220 grit Red 400 grit Blue 600 grit (Pumice...
Monday, 15 October 2012
File Cuts
The 'cut' of a file is a term that refers to how fine the cutting teeth are. Running in order of roughest to smoothest, they are: ro...
Friday, 12 October 2012
How to use a File
Accurate filing is an essential skill for final shaping and removing imperfections or fire scale prior to finishing a piece of work. When fi...
Caring for Files
High quality files are a real investment, and should be treated with respect equal to any other tool. If the files are stored together or si...
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Buying Files
In a general metal workshop, newer files are reserved for quality work; whereas older dulled files will be used for rough work. This is due ...
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Shapes of File
Equalling This rectangular file is intended for filing slots and interior corners; the wide, flat cutting surface also makes it ideal as a g...
Types of File
Full Size (Engineer's) These coarsest files have a cutting length of about 8", and are useful for the initial shaping of larger pie...
Monday, 8 October 2012
The Bench Peg
A bench peg is a wedge shaped block of wood that is mounted on the front edge of the jeweller's workbench. It is a multi functional rest...
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