[Jewelry making - Article 00103] - Re: [Orchid] Cutting jump rings

[Janet Berg]

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    I thought the business about cutting jump rings with a razor was in
    an article by W.T.Blackband (Illustrated London News 1938, 24 April
    p.659) but I only have part of it, and it ends with "To be
    continued" and it doesn't seem to have the reference. It does have a
    lot of other cool ways to make granules...:-)....If anyone can get a
    copy of the whole article and/or the second part, I would be forever
    grateful.....I probably got the piece I have (an old xerox) from the
    Goldsmiths' Hall Library or the Bodleian. 

    It works like this: you solder a piece of razor to the end of a
    piece of rod or thick wire (perpendicular) which you have used as a
    mandrel around which you wrap very fine wire. Then you pull the
    mandrel-wire through a drawplate thru a hole just big enough to let
    it pass. The wrapped wire will get squished between the razor and
    the back side of the drawplate, but if you keep pulling, the razor
    cuts thru the coiled wire leaving tiny rings. 

Janet in Jerusalem 

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