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Our Bench Tips and Tricks section covers jewelry making and repairs. Get the most from your tools and materials, from mandrels to palladium to gems.
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2 Successful Stone Setting Tips
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2 Tips for a Successful Jewelry Collection
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20 Laser Welding Tips
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3 Tips to Overcome Workplace Dysfunction
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3 Top Challenges for Jewelry Makers in 2014
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3 Ways to Use 2-Part Epoxy Resins
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4 Marketing Tips for Mobile Customers
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5 Holiday Casting Process Tips
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6 Basic Wire Skills to Make a Necklace
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950 Palladium Bench Guide
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A Conversation with Michael Rowe
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A Metalsmith’s Guide to Los Angeles
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A Metalsmith’s Guide to Tokyo, Japan
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A Metalsmith’s Guide to Washington, D.C.
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A Pain In The Neck
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All About Jump Rings
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Art and Technics: Experience
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Art and Technics: Learning from History
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Art and Technics: Technical Mastery
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Art vs Craft
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Avoiding Melting Soldered Seams
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Basic Approach to Product Design
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Basic Bead Setting Techniques
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Basic Filing Techniques
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Basic Fire Safety for Jewelers
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Basic Metalworking Tools for Beginners
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Basic Milling Technique
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Basic Polishing Technique
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Basic Principles for Tools and Equipment
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Basic Safety Principles for Jewelers
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Basic Sawing Techniques
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Basic Setup for Jewelry Photography
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Basic Spiral Braiding
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Bead Setting Method – Part 3
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Bead Stone Setting – Bead It!
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Beading Tool Tips
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Bench Jewelers Can Take Sniper Lessons
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Bench Mag Favorite Tips 2002
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Bench Mag Favorite Tips 2002 Part 1
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Bench Mag Favorite Tips 2002 Part 2
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Bench Mag Favorite Tips 2002 Part 3
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Bench Mag Favorite Tips 2002 Part 4
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Bench Tips and Tricks of the Trade
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Bench Tools for Jewelers
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Bench Tools Maintenance Schedule
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Bench Trick Guiding Principles
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Bezel Setting Cabochon Stones
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Bezel Setting Method
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Bezel Setting Using a Lathe
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Bi-Metal Casting to Titanium
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Book Review – Jewelry Contemporary Design and Techniques
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Book Review – Modeling in Wax for Jewelry and Sculpture
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Box Clasp Fabrication
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Buffer System & Ultrasonic Basket Replacement
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Build a Basic Jeweler’s Bench
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Build an Advanced Jeweler’s Bench
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CAD/CAM Techniques
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CAD/CAM: The Basics
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Cardboard Disc Sander Tool
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, other RSIs and the Jeweler
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Casting Investment Materials and Applications
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Channel Setting – Set ‘Em Straight
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Choosing the Right White Gold
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Color Coding Solder Chips
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Comparing Buff Prep Methods
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Contemporary Applications of Area Inlay
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Copper Granulation Technique
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Craftsmanship Improvement Method
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Creating a 14KW Rubellite Tourmaline Pendant
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Creating a Rotary Burnisher
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Creating a Whip Burnisher
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Creating and Sharpening Gravers
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Creative Imagination – Undeveloped Resource
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Creative Uses for Duct Tape at the Bench
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Customized Beading Tool Retipper, Trays & Polisher
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Customized Earring Setting Pliers
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Customized Mini Clamp Tool
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Customized Solder Holder, Jet Sett, Blast Shield
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Customized Turntable Tool Rack
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Cutting Down Repair Costs
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Cutting Jump Rings
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Dealing with Fire Scale
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Debunking a Soldering Myth 1
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Debunking a Soldering Myth 2
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Debunking Three Myths About Sawing
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Dermatitis and the Jeweler
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Design Layout Tip
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Diamond Setting Applications
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Diamond Setting Hints
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Drilling Tips and Techniques
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Dusts in the Jewelry Workshop
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Electroplating Safety Precautions
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Enameling Techniques for Beginners
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Ergonomics for Bench Pin Modifications
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Evenly Heating Pieces for Soldering
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Fabricating a Crown to Fit a Stone
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Fabricating a Free Form Opal Pendant
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Firescale Prevention During Vacuum Casting
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Fit to be Sized
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Flat Topped Solitaire Setting
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Flexible Shaft Tricks
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Gas Handling Guidelines
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Gemstone Care Tips
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Gemstone Chemical Coloration Techniques
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Gemstone Exploration Techniques
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Gemstone Setting Tip: Shape
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Giving New Life to Old Burs
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Gloves and the Jeweler
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Goldsmith Jewelry Finishing Trick
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Goldsmithing Health Hazards
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Graver Detailing and Sharpening
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Green Bench Tips – Part 1
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Green Bench Tips – Part 2
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Grinding Wheel Safety Rules
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Half-Ground Round Bur
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Hammering and Forging Safety Guidelines
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Handling Colored Stones at the Bench Part 1
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Handling Colored Stones at the Bench Part 2
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Handling Stakes and Anvils
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Hints on Making Tubing
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Homemade Flex-Shaft Guard
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How Jewelers Approach Work Materials
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How to Construct a Portable Photographic Studio
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How to Customize Curved Tip Melee Tweezers
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How to Handle the Flexshaft
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How to Harden and Temper Tool Steel
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How to Make a Bezel
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How to Make a Riffle File
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How to Make Earring Posts by Hand
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How to Make Equally Sized Beads
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How to Make Hoop Earrings
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How to Make Sharp Corner Cuts
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How to Make Straight Wire Holders
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How to Modify Prong Pushers
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How to Modify Wooden Ring Clamps
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How to Refuse Big Orders
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How to Repair a Hollow Rope Chain
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How to Resize Platinum Rings
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How to Sharpen Drill Bits
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How to Step-Roll Wire
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How to Use the Conduction Soldering Technique
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How to Use Time Fully
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Hydraulic Press Safety Precautions
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Important Principles of Casting Safety
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Inside Ring Polishing
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International Ring Sizes Chart
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Jeweler’s Workday: Sitting and Looking at the Bench
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Jewelers Precision Hand Saw Test
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Jewelers’ Stories About Working with Findings
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Jewelery Workshop Ventilation
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Jewellers’ Objective Attitude Towards Designing
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Jewellery Repair
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Jewelry and Metals Bibliography
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Jewelry Making Bench Tips
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Jewelry Making Tricks
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Knife Making Techniques for Jewelry Design
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Knowing the Difference Between Carat and Karat
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Lapidary Work Safety Precautions
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Laser Repair: Bangle Bracelet
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Layout Form / Template
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Locating Dead Center on Ring Blanks
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Magnesia Blocks Myth Debunked
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Make Your Own Cardboard Disc Sander
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Make Your Own DIY Rotary Burr
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Making a Metal Brooch Frame
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Making a Multi-Grit Sanding Stick
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Making Hollow Forms in Carving Wax Using Bread
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Making Wooden Raising Stakes
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Making Your Own Tubing
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Metal Conversion Chart
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Metalsmith ’83 Fall: Health Hazards Q&A’s
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Metalsmith ’83 Summer: Health Hazards Q&A’s
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Metalsmith ’84 Fall: Health Hazards Q&A’s
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Metalsmith ’84 Spring: Health Hazards Q&A’s
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Metalsmith ’84 Summer: Health Hazards Q&A’s
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Metalsmith ’85 Summer: Health Hazards Q&A’s
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Method to Quickly Identify Tool Steel
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Methods for Applying Patination Solutions
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Methods of Closing Jump Rings
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Methods to Effectively Bend Tubing
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Millimeter Gauge Layout Technique
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Modified Split Mandrel for Finishing Round Bezels
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New Efficient Bench Applications
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New Gem Identification Techniques
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Noise and its Affects
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North American Sources for Equipment, Materials, etc.
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Notes on Files for Jewelry Making
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Notes on Presto-Lite Torch
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Organize Bench Workflow with Trays
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Organize Your Bench
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Organize Your Workspace
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Other Uses for a Pencil in Jewelry Making
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Oval and Marquis Gemstone Layout Method
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Overcoming Bench Mistakes
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Overcoming Tool Limitations
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Palladium Annealing and Soldering
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Palladium Q&As
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Palladium Sizing, Welding and Engraving
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Patination Safety Considerations
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Patination Sources from the Internet
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Perfect Finishing Tools and Techniques
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Perfectly Fit Bezel
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Photoetching for the Studio Jeweler
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Photographic Images on Refractory Metals
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Pickling Notes
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Platinum Bench Tricks
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Platinum Consideration Factors
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Platinum Durability vs Scratching
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Platinum Fabricating & Stamping
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Platinum Finishing 1 – Safety
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Platinum Finishing/Polishing Process
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Platinum Jewelry Advanced Joining Techniques
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Polishing Hard to Reach Areas
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Potentially Harmful Metalsmithing Substances
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Practical Approach to CAD/CAM
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Practical Wax Modeling Techniques
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Project Management for Jewelers
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Prong Setting & Ring Sizing Tips
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Proper Studio Light
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Quality Assurance Benchmarks for Jewelers
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Radial Bristle Discs Excites Jewelers
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Re-tipping Platinum Prongs
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Recent Sightings: Handwork
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Recent Sightings: Jewelry Teachers
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Reconditioning Beading Tools & Dot Punches
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Rendering Design and Process
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Repairing Broken Chains
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Resizing Damaged Rings
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Reusing Broken Saw Blades
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Ring Sizing Tips and Tricks
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Risking Failure to Master New Things
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Roll Printing Technique
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Royal Flush Stone Setting
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Rules for Tools
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Safer Pickle Alternative
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Safety Issues and Litigation
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Safety Notes for Jewelers on Pitch, Chasing and Repousse
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Selecting the Correct Saw Blade
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Separating Work and Home
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Setting Stones in Wax
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Slicing Wax Slabs
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Sneaky Goldsmith Tricks
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Soft Hammers and Shaping Tools
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Soldering Hints and Tricks
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Spiral Cut Technique for Rubber Molds
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Step by Step Guide to Single Row Pave Settings
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Stone Setting Tips
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Structuring for Efficiency in the Studio
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Studio Lighting Considerations
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Stuller Custom Jewelers Workbench
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Suggested Gem Setting Tools
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Technical Briefs: Dealing with Firescale
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Technical Briefs: Fire Stain on Brass
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Technical Briefs: Fluxes
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Technical Briefs: Understanding Sandpaper
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Textile Techniques in Jewelry Making
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Thai Chaser Tool Tricks
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The Art of Anticlastic Raising
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The Art of Self Promotion
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The Costs of Learning Hand Engraving
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The Prospective General Teacher of Art
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The TAO of Bur Goodtip
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The Value of Ideas on Metalsmith/Jeweler’s Repertoire
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Tip for Improving Casting Quality
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Tips and Tricks for Scoring Metal
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Tips for Creating Jump Rings
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Tips for Modifying Vises
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Tips for Recovering Precious Metal Particles
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Tips for Repairing Pearl Jewelry
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Tips on How to Master Soldering
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Tips on Learning Website Basics
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Tips on Working with 35mm Slides
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Tool Alterations
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Tool and Equipment Checkpoints
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Touchstone Method for Testing Karat Gold Purity
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Trade Show Marketing Tip
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Transform Nails To Riveting Tools
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Translating Line Art into 3D Models in Matrix
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Transparency Making for Photoetching
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Tricks for Hollow Rings with Miniature Stakes
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Tweezers Tips and Tricks
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Using Acid Bath on Used Tools
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Using Coils To Bend Tubing
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Using Dental Mold-Making Materials
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V Prong Setting
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Vector Tightening to Secure Gemstones
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What Causes Casting Marks?
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What to Know About Heavy Metal Testing
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Working Posture for Craftsmen
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Working with Pearls
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Working with Topaz