[Jewelry making - Article 00183] - Re: [Orchid] Making a Two Piece Ring

[brian]

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>         ... but there are still plenty of times I just use the grooved
>     block of wood and the mallet. 

    Me too. Exclusively. The only opposition I've had to this method was
    when I was introducing it to a class in a jewellery school. I was
    co-teaching with a rather more traditional jeweller. He violently
    objected to malleting directly onto the mandrel (when forcing a heavy
    gauge silver strip into a 3/4" wooden groove). In his opinion once
    you let them do this it's only a matter of time before one of them
    will pick up a steel hammer and hammer the mandrel directly. His
    solution was to limit what we allow the students so that they don't
    damage our tools. I thought at the time as now that was an unecessary
    and almost unsustainable attitude applied to other areas of
    jewellery-making. I think it was possibly more about personality
    politicks. 

Brian


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