[Jewelry making - Article 00355] - Re: [Orchid] Trouble shaping cuffs

[Dinah Taylor]

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    I have also been reading these posts with great interest, as I am
    now making sterling cuffs for my shop inventory. 

    I'm using 18 and 20 gauge 1" strips, and don't have lots of tools.
    Most of them are left over from 30 years of leather working and
    hammers for the knock off hubs for Austin Healey's. (tells you how
    old I am). 

    I'm using the closest table leg to my bench, which is working fine. 
    I didn't know how to form this before my teacher told me to try it. 
    I did start on one side, forming around with my hands, and then the
    other end.  I then took a 6" piece of pipe that is 1 7/8ths" diameter
    and 1/4" thick, good and sturdy, that I got the plumbing store to
    give me.  I covered it in a product we use on the race track to wrap
    horses tendons before galloping, called Sealtex.  It's a latex
    bandage 3" wide and 5 yds long for $10.00. This will last for a long
    time, you can cut out whatever lengths you need. 

    I wrap the pipe in it, have some on my 'anvil' (a piece of railroad
    track I was given by a friend, and can use my leather or rubber
    hammer to form it better, finishing by using my hands to do the final
    forming. 

    I realize this isn't probably the 'formal correct technical' way to
    accomplish this, but for someone starting out, it works and is very
    inexpensive. 

    Necessity is the mother of invention.--ask any one who operates a
    farm. 

Cheers! Dinah.
http://www.rubylane.com/shops/capriciouscrowns



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