[Jewelry making - Article 00549] - Re: [Orchid] RT Blanking system

[Anne Larsen Hollerbach]

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    Lizzy, If you need to have hundreds of the same turtle blanked out
    and you don't want to spend money on the tools necessary, then I
    would suggest that you contact Dar Shelton of Sheltech
    [www.sheltech.com] in New Mexico. He is the ultimate blanking die
    wizard, and for an extremely reasonable fee he will cut, harden, and
    temper your turtle dies, and he will be delighted to blank out as
    many turtles as you need. 

    Your theory that "one could just cut blanks with a saw on the bench
    pin with the right blade" is sadly incorrect. You must maintain an
    extremely precise blade angle that is derived from the thickness of
    the blade and the thickness of the tool steel. For instance, for a
    4/0 blade cutting 1/16th" steel, you must maintain an angle of 10.5
    all the way around or your blanking tool simply will not work. Think
    of the blanking die as a very specialized kind of sissors [since it
    cuts in exactly the same way], and you know what one little knick or
    burr on the blade does to the quality of a sissors cut. For this
    reason, you need to use some kind of sawing guide when making
    blanking dies: it's the difference between having the process work
    or not. 

    By having Sheltech make the die for you, you are saving yourself
    money on the saw guide, time in the learning curve, sawblades [the
    first few tries will eat about four dozen blades :-)], and
    aggravation in the very delicate process of correctly heat treating
    these dies. Also, you don't have to have a hydraulic press to do the
    actual blanking if you have Dar do it for you. Your potential
    savings there could run to about $1000 overall. Since jewelry isn't
    your main medium [yet!], it would be so much more logical to
    outsource this aspect. 

Anne Hollerbach
[very satisfied customer of Sheltech]


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