[Jewelry making - Article 00724] - Re: [Orchid] Fabrication of a box clasp

[Kaytzbdz]

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    Julie, Take a look at the "Box Clasp" construction project in Alan
    Revere's Professional Goldsmithing:  A Contemporary Guide to
    Traditional Jewelry Techniques.  It provides the basic in box
    clasp-making.  After working through it step-by-step you get a
    great, I mean great understanding of how it is made.  Then
    reconfigure it for your needs.  

    Try using 80/20 (reticulation) silver sheet for the tongue.  It will
    maintain better spring than sterling.  When you solder the end plate
    (sterling) onto the tongue, use a heat retardant on and around the
    corners so it doesn't "reticulate".  It's a bummer to have to re-do! 

    I would think that you would have to hand fabricate the tongue,
    because of need of spring in the metal.  All other parts of the
    clasp could be cast. 

    The "button", or some call it the trigger,  gets a lot of use, so
    needs to be workable, comfortable and DURABLE.  The prong setting
    would have to be extremely heavy duty to fit the bill.  Hard solder
    a must here. 

Good luck,
Kay Taylor


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