Tina Wojtkielo Snyder

Contributions From Tina Wojtkielo Snyder

4 Tips to Boost Refining Returns

4 Tips to Boost Refining Returns

This article highlights some 4 tips to boost refining returns that will prove dollar wise and useful for you. You've...
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2013 MJSA Thinking Ahead Award – Mike Joyce

2013 MJSA Thinking Ahead Award – Mike Joyce

For the past 10 years, MJSA has recognized the technological advances and products that are making a difference in the...
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Gemstone Setting Tip: Shape

“You should know what kind of shape you’re in,” joked Arthur Anton Skuratowicz during an MJSA At the Bench Live...
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5 Tips for Mass Finishing

5 Tips for Mass Finishing

There are many paths to the perfect finish. When it comes to mass finishing production jewelry there are a few...
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3 Jewelers, 4 Tools Testing

3 Jewelers, 4 Tools Testing

Editor's Note: Want to know how to make a bench jeweler's day? Send him a box full of new tools...
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Jewelers’ Repair Pricing Strategies

Jewelers’ Repair Pricing Strategies

Repair pricing strategies used by three featured jewelers.
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Michael David Sturlin’s Two Strand Crocheted Chain

Michael David Sturlin’s Two Strand Crocheted Chain

With the quartz as the central focal point of the "Reflecting Pond Necklace," Sturlin had to design a chain that...
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Bench Tool Junkies

Bench Tool Junkies

What you should be is excited to read this article and see what others just like you have to say...
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Maximizing Bench Work Profitability

Maximizing Bench Work Profitability

Jeffrey Johnson has two stores, 18 bench jewelers, and over 100 employees-and he still has time to work at the...
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A New Platinum Sterling Silver

A New Platinum Sterling Silver

It took about two months of experimentation to get the formulas for Platinum Sterling Silver just right - Robinson created...
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Testing ACCU Carve Injection Wax

Testing ACCU Carve Injection Wax

AJM recently asked two companies, AU Enterprises in Berkley , Michigan , and Racecar Jewelry Co. Inc. in Cranston ,...
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Jewelers’ Stories About Working with Findings

Jewelers’ Stories About Working with Findings

When a commercial finding isn't quite right but making the component by hand seems like reinventing the wheel, creative modification...
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2005 AJM Innovation Awards

2005 AJM Innovation Awards

AJM Magazine has announced the winners of the second annual AJM Innovation Awards. These awards recognize technologies that are making...
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Organizing a Jeweler’s Studio

Organizing a Jeweler’s Studio

For Howard Woods of Eagle, Idaho, a jewelers studio should be a place of beauty - organized beauty - that...
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Sphearrings: From Concept to Market

One of the newest earring findings to hit the market is showing a little earlobe midriffand it could turn the...
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Palladium Q&As

Its no secret that palladium has captured the attention of the industry. In 2005, purchase of palladium for jewelry use...
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Common FAQs for Metals Suppliers

Behold the metals supplier, lord of all things shiny. He fills your crucible with casting grain and makes sure youre...
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Color Stories Designing Around a Dynamic Opal

Color Stories Designing Around a Dynamic Opal

'I show you an opal. You show me a design.' That was the deal I struck with the three willing...
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SpeckFINDER HD Takes Magnification to High-Tech Levels

SpeckFINDER HD Takes Magnification to High-Tech Levels

When a maid steals a $250,000 gold and diamond necklace from a famous rappers hotel room, only to find that...
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Superfit’s Hinge and Latch System

Superfit’s Hinge and Latch System

Getting a superior fit on your next custom ring order could be just a few mouse clicks away. Superfit Inc.,...
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Jim Dailing Crafts Sentimental “Story Rings”

Jim Dailing Crafts Sentimental “Story Rings”

Custom designer Jim Dailing of Bend, Oregon, has been making jewelry for 30 years. For a brief stint during the...
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Ensuring the Best Refining Experience

Ensuring the Best Refining Experience

Today's record metals prices have probably encouraged you to be more diligent than ever about capturing every last bit of...
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Tips for Casting Palladium

Tips for Casting Palladium

Some manufacturers jumped at the chance to work with palladium a few years ago, when it made its way into...
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Ring Sizing Tips and Tricks

Ring Sizing Tips and Tricks

Ask a seasoned bench jeweler how many rings he or she has sized and they'll probably give you a figure...
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Vermeil Jewelries

Vermeil Jewelries

Considering metals prices continue to be sky high, it's no surprise that plating companies' phones are ringing off the hook....
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Ring by Cynthia Renée Zava

Ring by Cynthia Renée Zava

With textures that echo the Patagonian mountains of Chile, the Torres del Paine Ring by Cynthia Rene Zava of Cynthia...
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Improvements in Shop Security Technology

Improvements in Shop Security Technology

When you work with materials as valuable as precious metals and gemstones, you need to take measures to keep them...
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Modified CAD Design

Modified CAD Design

What do you do when you realize your virtual inventory is virtually impossible to manufacture? With so many jewelry designers...
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Hydraulic Die Press

Hydraulic Die Press

Pressing Matters by Tina Wojtkielo Snyder This month, we asked Lisa Krikawa of Tucson: If you were stranded on an...
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Revving Up the Burnout Process

Revving Up the Burnout Process

The internet has put the world at our fingertips. In minutes or less you can start a video chat with...
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Retracing Steps to Solve Casting Problems

Retracing Steps to Solve Casting Problems

A design riddled with undercuts and sharp little details just screams casting nightmare the moment the CAD file shows up....
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What to Know About Heavy Metal Testing

What to Know About Heavy Metal Testing

Before you submit any jewelry item to a lab to test for heavy metals, you're going to need to do...
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Alex and Ani – Positive Energy

Alex and Ani – Positive Energy

For Alex and Ani, booming success points back to manufacturing locally, with love Pharmaceutical salesperson Kelly Oliver logs thousands of...
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Novell Design Studio

Novell Design Studio

At Novell Design Studio, efficiency, quality, and service get a jolt of passion You can hear the passion in Bruce...
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Additive Manufacturing in the Jewelry Scene

Additive Manufacturing in the Jewelry Scene

Did you ever imagine you'd see the day when a finely woven mesh bracelet with thousands of tiny links could...
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Low-Cost Rapid Prototype Systems

Low-Cost Rapid Prototype Systems

Five years ago, if you wanted to buy an additive manufacturing machine to grow rapid prototype (RP) models in your...
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Redefining Fine Jewelry

Redefining Fine Jewelry

Ask someone to define "fine jewelry" and you'll usually hear something about gold, platinum, diamonds, and other traditionally "precious" materials....
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Mystery Box Jewelry Challenge

Mystery Box Jewelry Challenge

Welcome to the Mystery Box Challenge! You are among the select designers who have received this box of materials, Your...
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