[Jewelry making - Article 01252] - [Orchid] Married Metals From Pancake Blanking Die

[Dar Shelton]

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    Over the years I've made a few blanking dies for people with this
    technique in mind. The simple beauty of using a pancake die is that
    with one punch it creates two pieces of metal that share a common
    sheared edge. Simply, it means that the positive and negative (or the
    part and the scrap) will fit back together EXACTLY. The large spiral
    design in the photo is a wonderful example of this ; I just recently
    did it, and dug out a couple of other samples from my box of goodies,
    to also be included. 

    http://www.ganoksin.com/ftp/MarriedMetal003.jpg 

    The cityscape design was done with 3 dies; one that cut a circle
    blank, and two that were the upper and lower building profiles. There
    is a visible gap in the assembly, which I believe (too old for me to
    remember ) was an accident, a mistake in pressing the parts together. 


    The spiral is done correctly, and it's not like it's a hard thing to
    do, because with a little care, it's impossible for the parts NOT to
    get pressed together exactly. As the spiral shows, the fit is
    absolutely airtight exact. I think some people can really have fun
    designing things for this method. 

Dar Shelton
Sheltech
http://www.sheltech.net
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