[Jewelry making - Article 00031] - Re: [Orchid] Favorite Tools...

[Lee Epperson]

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Favorite tool.

    Hey Brian I agree with you. My Foredom is by far my favorite tool. I
    don't know how I could get anything done without it. I use it for
    everything. 

    I use it: in no particular order: 

    1. to turn wax into pottery. I can turn blocks of wax up to 3.5
    inches in diameter and about 4 inches tall. 

    2. to texture wax with small burrs. A small burr mounted in the hand
    piece is bounced on the wax surface which produces a texture on the
    wax. 

    3. to drill holes in silver and wax. 

    4. to carve wax with various burrs. 

    5. to cut, shape and polish small stones. 

    6. with a hammer tool to set bezels, texture and engrave silver. 

    7. to remove epoxy from the top of bezels where stone are set in
    epoxy. I use 18 gage wax or metal to form bezels then epoxy stone
    in. Epoxy flows over the top of the bezel. 

    8. to grind away sprues from castings. 

    9. to smooth irregular surfaces on castings with an abrasive wheel in
    the hand piece. 

    10. to polish areas on castings that the large polisher can not get
    to. 

    11. to mill wax to various thicknesses with a large burr mounted in a
    hand piece mounted in a Foredom drill press. 

    12. to sharpen my drill bits with cut off discs. 

    13. to drill holes in stones with a diamond drill. 

    14. to do about another thousand things I cannot think of at this
    time. 

    I still have my original Foredom I bought in 1975. Its in my rock
    cutting area and is still working. 

    Go Foredom.

Lee Epperson
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