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Sharpening A File With Acid

Sharpening A File With Acid

A quick, simple, and inexpensive method for sharpening a file.
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Make Silver Different Colors by Anodizing

Make Silver Different Colors by Anodizing

How to Make Silver Different Colors by Electrochemical Anodizing. Without using paint you can give a silver surface various colors...
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Don’t buy fake silver – easy acid test!!!

Don’t buy fake silver – easy acid test!!!

Quick and easy Silver test - WARNING: if you are under 18 or unfamiliar at all with these testing methods,...
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Inside Auriou Toolworks – How Files are Made

Inside Auriou Toolworks – How Files are Made

Produced by Auriou Toolworks, this 10-minute video reveals the fascinating world of traditional rasp-making at Forge De Saint Juery in...
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Armed Robbery Andreas Salver

Armed Robbery Andreas Salver

6 x Armed Perpetrators Rob Manufacturing Jeweler in Coachman's crossing Bryanston
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Filling a Speedwire

Filling a Speedwire

I have provided instructions on making your own coiled sterling wire for Glenn Manning's Speedwire, an ingenious device for delivering...
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Sculptures by Noah Deledda

Sculptures by Noah Deledda

Irony & Aluminum The hidden beauty of the can's polished aluminum surface is revealed. By hand, I apply dents to...
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Domed smooth tapered cuff bracelet

Domed smooth tapered cuff bracelet

Domed smooth tapered cuff bracelet
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Infiltrating Colombia’s Shady Emerald Mines

Infiltrating Colombia’s Shady Emerald Mines

Money and Madness (1998) - Penetrating the shady world of Colombia's emerald dealers, we meet private armies and pistol-packing miners....
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Weaving wire

Weaving wire

basic wire weaving
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How to make a round twisted bangle

How to make a round twisted bangle

how to make a round twisted bangle
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The Hidden Afghan Emerald Mines That Could Be Worth Billions

The Hidden Afghan Emerald Mines That Could Be Worth Billions

Afghanistan is not only a country in perpetual turmoil, but also a geological miracle. Can they now harness 1,000 billion...
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Hidden Hazards in the Art Studio – Less Toxic Alternatives

Hidden Hazards in the Art Studio – Less Toxic Alternatives

Hidden Hazards in the Art Studio - Less Toxic Alternatives
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Simple Steps to Planishing Copper

Simple Steps to Planishing Copper

Steps and tools for simple planishing of copper. Easily remove hammer or mallet marks from a formed copper bowl. The...
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John Martin Douglas Master Goldsmith: Bespoke Gold Ring

John Martin Douglas Master Goldsmith: Bespoke Gold Ring

The classic engagement ring is a solitaire diamond in gold or platinum, but of course you can have any combination...
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Utsushi – in search of Katsuhira’s tiger. Part 2

Utsushi – in search of Katsuhira’s tiger. Part 2

A short documentary film that follows classical Japanese metal artist Ford Hallam as he recreates a lost masterpiece by the...
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Utsushi – in search of Katsuhira’s tiger. Part 1

Utsushi – in search of Katsuhira’s tiger. Part 1

A short documentary film that follows classical Japanese metal artist Ford Hallam as he recreates a lost masterpiece by the...
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Calcutta’s gold scavengers

Calcutta’s gold scavengers

Early in the morning, as Calcutta's Bowbazar red-light district settles down to sleep, a group of men leave their shanty...
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3 Dimentional tube bending

3 Dimentional tube bending

Cooney marines amazing Tube bender.
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Best of Foldforming Competition

Best of Foldforming Competition

Winners of the inaugural Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition were announced on Aug 6, 2012 at the 5th Annual Charles Lewton-Brain Conference...
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Granulation: Athena’s Treasures Damaskos Workshop

Granulation: Athena’s Treasures Damaskos Workshop

This is the Damaskos Workshop. We're featuring the creation of a ring, but through that showing some of the other...
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Orienting a Moonstone crystal for cutting

Orienting a Moonstone crystal for cutting

locating the moonstone effect and orienting the crystal for optimising the adularescence in Feldspar Moonstone rough in preparation for cutting....
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Making a RIng

Making a RIng

From a pile of scrap to a finished product.
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Lost Wax Casting – [9/9] Finishing and Polishing

Lost Wax Casting – [9/9] Finishing and Polishing

Lost wax casting, step : Grinding, buffing and polishing the finished charms. Feathered Gems Jewelry has documented the entire process...
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Lost Wax Casting – [8/9] Cutting the charms off of the sprue

Lost Wax Casting – [8/9] Cutting the charms off of the sprue

Lost wax casting, step 8: cutting the now clean silver charms off of the sprue trees. Feathered Gems Jewelry has...
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Lost Wax Casting – [7/9] Cleaning the newly cast charms

Lost Wax Casting – [7/9] Cleaning the newly cast charms

Lost wax casting, step : cleaning the freshly cast silver charms. Feathered Gems Jewelry has documented the entire process of...
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Lost Wax Casting – [6/9] Quenching the hot flasks

Lost Wax Casting – [6/9] Quenching the hot flasks

Lost wax casting, step : cooling the hot flasks in a bucket of water Feathered Gems Jewelry has documented the...
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Lost Wax Casting – [5/9] Casting the silver in the heated fl

Lost Wax Casting – [5/9] Casting the silver in the heated fl

Lost wax casting, step 5: weighing and melting the sterling silver that is poured into the hot flasks. Feathered Gems...
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Lost Wax Casting – [4/9] Burning out the flasks

Lost Wax Casting – [4/9] Burning out the flasks

Preparing for lost wax casting, step 4: putting the flasks in a kiln to burn out any remaining wax and...
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Lost Wax Casting – [3/9] Dewaxing the flasks

Lost Wax Casting – [3/9] Dewaxing the flasks

Preparing for lost wax casting, step 3: steaming out the wax from inside the hardened plaster investment. Feathered Gems Jewelry...
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Lost Wax Casting – [2/9] Investing the wax-filled flasks

Lost Wax Casting – [2/9] Investing the wax-filled flasks

Preparing for lost wax casting, step 2: putting the waxes inside steel flasks and covering them with high temperature plaster...
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Lost Wax Casting – [1/9] Sprueing waxes

Lost Wax Casting – [1/9] Sprueing waxes

Preparing for lost wax casting, step 1: attaching waxes to a central sprue and weighing them. Feathered Gems Jewelry has...
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How to solder tiny ring components

How to solder tiny ring components

I was recently asked for some advice on how to solder a very small bezel setting to a thin wire...
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Silver refining

Silver refining

A micro-scale experiment explaining some principles related to the refining process of silver.
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MAISON CHAPLIN – Van Cleef & Arpels – The Process

MAISON CHAPLIN – Van Cleef & Arpels – The Process

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels, the most comprehensive exhibition ever organized of Van Cleef &...
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Steve Shelby’s Metal Art, Interview

Steve Shelby’s Metal Art, Interview

Eric Olson from Indiana's News Center interviews Steve Shelby in his workshop about how he makes his metal sculptures.
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Notebook Pendant Project

Notebook Pendant Project

Hadar's
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Memento Vitae–Life Remembered

Memento Vitae–Life Remembered

When I lost three family members in three years I felt compelled to DO something and these vessels are the...
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The Deep – PES

The Deep – PES

Short animation: Metal objects of the past come to life in the depths of the sea....
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Jewelry Secret

Jewelry Secret

Promotional Video by CHANEL
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Easy Mounting

Easy Mounting

how to make a easy mounting
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Safely removing SK Cobalt / BioBlu 27 ring

Safely removing SK Cobalt / BioBlu 27 ring

Scott Kay Inc. has a tool that will successfully remove any SK Cobalt(TM) / BioBlu 27(TM) band from a consumer's...
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Beth Wicker, An Artist Profile

Beth Wicker, An Artist Profile

Beth Wicker is a member of the Artisans of the South Carolina Cotton Trail. She currently resides in Cheraw, South...
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DIY Mini Lathe

DIY Mini Lathe

DIY Mini Lathe
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