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Matthew H. Gross
USA
"i love my jewelry tools, we have grown up together. I like to keep my benches clean and organized. it seems that i do cleaner work with a clean bench...." |
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Melodie Reddy
Sydney, Australia
"Here's my humble bench, well it's an old Post Office desk but it serves the purpose for now. I have a wonderful view over the Eastern suburbs of Sydney when I think to look up, and ton's of natural light, the piece I was working on when I took the picture is handmade sliver links and T-Bar with white Zirconia bracelet...." |
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David Keeling
Canada
"Here are some images from my little studio in frozen northerly confines of western Canada. My two apprentices are making themselves especially useful on this particular day, as the paycheques were being issued...." |
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Tony Payne
Payne's Custom Jewelry
USA
" This is my custom jewelry making bench. I use it for both wax carving and metal working. It is hand made and functional...." |
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James Miller
England
"This picture was taken 40 years ago and show me as an apprentice at the bench, I am the youth at the far end doing a bit of carving. The guy next to me (in the middle) is Don Spratling, he emigrated to Toronto in 1969 and has been a jeweller/goldsmith/teacher there ever since. The guy at the front was our master Mr.H. J.J ones, as Don was his apprentice before I arrived. Note the Birmingham side light gas fitting at each bench. This was the method of soldering in those days, we used a mouth blowpipe and natural gas. Our workshop was in Soho, London as we supplied Garrard the crown jewellers...." |
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Don Hoaglund
USA
"Here is a view of my work shop in New Bedford MA USA. I have 3 benches set up for gold and silver/ oxy acetelene and one strictly for Platinum oxy propane. I have had 3 stores where I have generally built in the bench(s).I was an instructor at the Jewelry Institute in Providence RI and worked in a manufacturing as master benchman. I've worked in a mall store window(repair and stone setting) and I've worked out of my home. I have always been interested in how other jewelers set up their benches. Thanks for the views...." |
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Ginger Meek Allen
Gingermeekallen.com
Wake Forest, North Carolina
USA
"My favorite place! Confucious: "Choose a job you love and you will never
have to work a day in your life...." |
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Igor Zhurnenko
USA
"workshop at home...." |
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Gerald Livings
Livingston Jewelers
USA
"I was working at my bench today, and I suddenly
remembered The BenchExchange. I dropped what I was
doing (carefully, since it was a wax!) and grabbed my
camera. I apologise for the neatness of my bench
because this is our studio and my girlfriend works on
stained glass in here also. I love seeing how other
people work; I get a real kick out of it! |
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Addy van de Ven
Netherlands
"Hello, goldsmids all over the world!
What a great and original idea to create a Bench-Galery.
It's a nice way to look around in other
workingplaces. As you can see, most of the benches are home-made. So is my
bench. A small detail is that you can move it away in several parts and rebuild
it again.Sometimes this can be useful....." |
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John Graziano
USA
"Here a picture of my two benches, one for wax the other for metal,down in my dungeon in LI NY. 25 years of modeling...." |
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