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| [15] A Pain In The Neck |
You start to turn and there it is again. You go to stand up from your chair and it happens again. It's that nagging pain in your neck or lower back. After several years on the bench, jewelers often develop chronic neck or back injuries.... (2003)
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| [817] A Stone Laser Shield |
I have found this to be a most useful tool to use when rebuilding a bezel using a Laser Welder. It is made from a watchmakers screwdriver and is used to deflect the excess energy reflected at a sensitive stone to prevent damage to the stones surface. This view of the finished product shows 1.5mm X 2mm piece of fine silver welded to the blade tip.... (2005)
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| [250] Bead Stone Setting - Bead It! |
Bench Jewelers often use different methods to accomplish the same work. I believe the end results are what is important, not the method used to get there. In jewelry work the ends often justifies the means. This is not more evident than in bead setting. I know jewelers who cut the seat with round, bud, cone, setting, heart, or bearing burs. Then they cut the excess metal away with flat, knife, or onglette gravers, or they use heart, wheel, round, or knife edge burs. Some even use needle files or saw blades.... (2003)
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| [911] Beading Tool Tips |
Like most bench jewelers I do a lot of bead setting and like most
bench jewelers I take pride in my work. When I bead set I want crisp
and clean beads. Recently, I was setting one pointers into white
gold skirts that would become a pair of earrings. I hadnt gotten
very far when I noticed that the beads were getting raggedy and
there was quite a bit of finning between the edges of the bead and
the melee. I knew this meant that my beading tool was becoming dull.
I would like to share with you a tool tip for sharpening a worn out
beading tool.... (2009)
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| [818] Bracelet Tongue Replacement |
With the popularity of tennis bracelets over the last 20 years replacing broken tongues has become a common repair in the jewelry shop. Typically these are replaced by soldering a new tongue in place. However, using a torch to solder a tongue onto a bracelet creates two problems.... (2005)
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