[Jewelry making - Article 00474] - [Orchid] Transfer punches

[Jessica Halgren]

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>         i then used transfer punches and a disc cutter to find the
>     center of the circle.  i placed the blank disc on my work surface,
>     put the disc cutter on top of the disc with the cutter upside down
>     so that it would hold the disc firmly, and then slid the transfer
>     punch into the cutter to mark the disc. 

    I've heard about the transfer punches here on Orchid, but it's this
    step that loses me. One washer size I need is 1" outside diameter and
    6/8" inside diameter...both standard disc cutter sizes. The transfer
    punches I see in the Harbor Freight catalog don't go up to 1"...I
    assume I need one with the diameter of the outside in order to find
    the middle? And then once you find the middle, do you then put the
    disc into the smaller (i.e. 6/8") disc cutter hole, check it with a
    transfer punch the size of that smaller hole, and when you're sure
    it's aligned punch out the inside disc? If so, wouldn't you need
    transfer punches in the two exact (i.e. outside and inside diameter)
    sizes? Does anyone sell them in larger (up to 1") sizes? And when you
    punch the center, is it easy to keep the disc positioned in the disc
    cutter even though there isn't much material left surrounding that
    center? 

    Perhaps I'm completely misunderstanding the way transfer punches
    work? Jean, I found your archived post mentioning the relevant
    October 2002 Lapidary Journal article ("Capping Beads") -- does
    anyone out there have a copy of this article they could send me? 

    Thanks Jean and everyone else! Jessica, battening down the hatches
    for an upcoming storm in SF  


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