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| [995] Customize Your Tools - Curved Tip Melee Tweezers |
These tweezers are great for gripping melee when straight tips don´t give you enough clearance. They allow you to slide melee down the channel without loosing your grip.... (2012)
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| [795] Customize Your Tools - Insulated Short Tweezers |
Customize a standard insulated tweezers to easily hold small objects much tighter... (2006)
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| [1004] How to Modify a Goldsmith Hammer |
Jewelers and metalsmiths have had to make their own tools throughout the ages to accomplish different tasks at the jeweler´s bench. One tool a jeweler can´t do without is a hammer. Today, many styles of hammers, made in a variety of shapes and materials, are available to the jeweler. The hammer used here as an example of how to make modifications is used for riveting, shaping, forming and working on rings for sizing. The hammer has one round/slightly contoured end (called the pean) one chisel-shaped end and a hardwood handle.... (2012)
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| [1021] How to Modify a Goldsmith Hammer |
Jewelers and metalsmiths have had to make their own tools throughout the ages to accomplish different tasks at the jeweler´s bench. One tool a jeweler can´t do without is a hammer. Today, many styles of hammers, made in a variety of shapes and materials, are available to the jeweler. The hammer used here as an example of how to make modifications is used for riveting, shaping, forming and working on rings for sizing. The hammer has one round/slightly contoured end (called the pean) one chisel-shaped end and a hardwood handle..... (2012)
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| [1026] How to Modify a Wooden Ring Clamp |
One persistent daily challenge a bench jeweler faces is trying to figure out the best way to hold onto tiny, delicate objects while performing mechanical operations such as sawing, filing or burring bearings for stone setting.
There are dozens of tools available for this purpose, some centuries old and some that are modern, sophisticated and often quite expensive. An alternative is to make a simple modification to a wooden ring clamp which holds rings and other jewelry items that turns it into a useful, multi-function holder.... (2012)
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