[Jewelry making - Article 00885] - Re: [Orchid] Rolling Mill Basics - The Square

[John Donivan]

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>     was planning to make the most of my growing scrap pile of sterling
>     silver by melting, casting ingots and rolling, so your articles
>     will be of great help. 

    I'll just point out one other advantage to using the mill, and that's
    that it puts out "gauged" material. Say you need to put a floor into
    a channel set baguette setting, and the baguettes are 3mm long. So
    you just roll out a piece of square stock to a rectangle that's 3.25
    or 3.5 mm wide (allow for filing), and the proper thickness, and you
    have "automatically" made your floor stock. Same for the walls - they
    need to be 4mm high by.5 thick, so you just roll that out, and
    there's your wall part, exactly sized. These are things that are
    difficult if not impossible to foresee in the sense of buying ready
    made mill products, plus a job like that might require 10 different
    little bits of metal that are slightly different. Yes, you could file
    down stock to size - now THAT'S a chore. You could live with what the
    refiner gives you, too, but I won't even say what that means -
    limited, at best. Very powerful tool, the rolling mill. 

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