[Jewelry making - Article 00085] - Re: [Orchid] Cutting jump rings

[Trevor F]

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>         do you all sand the edges of your jump rings after sawing? 

Hello Jocelyn,

    FWIW I've found that if you use a fairly fine blade in your saw, say
    4/0 or 5/0, and make a point of doing as smooth a cut as you can you
    end up with rings that require no further dressing before soldering. 

    It helps immensely if the coil is very snug on it's core while you do
    the sawing. Wrapping on an aluminium tube, locking the ends down in
    slots cut in the ends of the tube and then taping the coil snugly with
    an end-to-end overlapping wrap of masking or painter's tape is
    sufficient to accomplish this.  Every once in a while you'll need to
    start with a new piece of aluminium tubing 'cause your ends get sawed
    up but the stuff is cheap and effective so it's no biggie. 

    The aluminium tubing seems to work better than the traditional wooden
    doweling because you can wrap, tape and saw a tighter coil, at least
    that's what I've experienced. 

Cheers, 
Trevor F.

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