[Jewelry making - Article 00592] - Re: [Orchid] Jewelers safe

[James Binnion]

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    Electa 	The majority of gun safes are designed for one thing. to keep
    children or a casual thief out of the guns. They are for the most
    part lightweight (when compared to a jewelers safe) steel boxes that
    can be moved with a hand truck and or a couple of people. The
    simplest way for someone to steal the goods in your safe is to just
    remove the safe from your premises and work on it at their leisure
    and gun safes are light enough to do this. A jewelers safe will have
    a steel outer box probably at least 1/2" thick and then a composite
    wall that is made of materials that are very difficult to drill or
    hammer through which are typically some from of proprietary
    reinforced concrete so you end up with a wall that is 3 or more
    inches thick of solid material. If you want a safe that will protect
    your goods from someone who knows there is an amount of jewelry in
    there that is valuable enough for them to bother with breaking into
    the safe then you want one that takes heavy equipment to move and
    then you want to bolt it down to the floor and you will still need
    other forms of security system so that the thief will not have
    unlimited time to work on the safe. A TRTL30x6 safe will supposedly
    take a thief more than 30 min to get in using a torch (TR) and  or
    tools (TL) but a professional using the most modern tools can beat
    that time. Most jewelers that have safes are either required to by
    our insurance in which case they specify the kind of safe we have to
    use or we have enough material to protect that we just cannot afford
    to lose it and the cost of the safe is deemed to be a lesser evil
    than the loss of the work. If you are not willing to go this route
    than you probably don't really need a safe yet and you are probably
    just as well off with a good hiding place for your work rather than
    spending the money on a gun safe or other form of insufficient
    protection. 

    Jim James Binnion Metal Arts Phone (360) 756-6550 Toll Free (877) 408
    7287 Fax (360) 756-2160 http://www.mokume-gane.com jbin AT mokume-gane.com 
    Member of the Better Business Bureau


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