Mass Production of Jewelry


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Electroplating Jewellery

Electroplating Jewellery

Electroplating is a method to put a metal coating onto an object, in our case a piece of jewellery, by...
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Natural Rubber or Silicone Rubber?

Natural Rubber or Silicone Rubber?

Natural rubber or silicone rubber? In the world of lost wax casting, this question is hardly an academic one. The...
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Casting Investment Powder Performances

Casting Investment Powder Performances

In each step of manufacturing jewelry, there are many factors that can adversely affect quality. Because of this, process control...
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Hollow Carat Gold Jewelry

Hollow Carat Gold Jewelry

There is always pressure to reduce the cost of manufactured items and carat gold jewellery is no exception to this...
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Identifying and Preventing Wax Defects

Identifying and Preventing Wax Defects

Manufacturer spend much time and money diagnosing defects that are believed to originate in the casting process, but actually occur...
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Practical Guide to Mass Finishing  Jewelry

Practical Guide to Mass Finishing Jewelry

A microscopic and technical view of mass finishing presented in layman's terms. Understanding of mass finishing must start at the...
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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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Optimising Gold Alloys for Manufacturing

Optimising Gold Alloys for Manufacturing

Standard yellow gold alloys which are based on gold-silver copper can be used for many production processes. They could be...
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Hard 22 Carat Gold Alloy

Hard 22 Carat Gold Alloy

The jewellery market is looking for harder high-carat gold alloys that are more resistant to wear and scratching. Current research...
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Tumbling Technique Hints

When burnishing very detailed pieces, use stainless pins in your mixed shot. Don’t use them any other time because the...
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Basic Principles for Wet Tumbling on Gold Jewellery

Basic Principles for Wet Tumbling on Gold Jewellery

The correct use of modern, semi- automated finishing processes enables the manufacturer not only to reduce production costs, but also...
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Working with White Gold

Working with White Gold

White gold jewelry is a hot fashion trend that does not show signs of cooling off any time soon. Manufacturers...
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Causes & Prevention of Defects in Wrought Alloys

Causes & Prevention of Defects in Wrought Alloys

Much of the recent literature on defects that occur in jewellery manufacture is focused on those occurring in lost wax...
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Laser Welders Impacting the Jewelry Industry

Laser Welders Impacting the Jewelry Industry

The one tool that allows each of these jewelers to do their jobs better is a laser welder, a technological...
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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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Electroforming for Innovative Design

Electroforming for Innovative Design

There are four principal methods of producing jewellery today: Hand making, using traditional craft skills, Investment (Lost wax) Casting, Pressing...
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Mass Finishing of Gold Jewelry

Mass Finishing of Gold Jewelry

Design dictates buyer's choices when gold jewelry is purchased and the quality of the pieces certainly plays an important part...
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Production Methods for Palladium Chain Making

Production Methods for Palladium Chain Making

As proudly proclaimed in its name, Balestra 1882 has manufactured high quality gold and platinum chain in Italy since 1882....
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Production Project Proposal

This is an example of a production project proposal involving the reproduction of two historically important buttons. This shows how...
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Platinum Fabricating & Stamping

This paper is aimed mainly at the small- to medium-sized jewelry manufacturing operations interested in working with platinum group metals....
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Perfect Finishing Tools and Techniques

Our castings can be flawless, our assembly precise, and our settings secure -- but let any surface go a bit...
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Live And Let Die (Struck)

Live And Let Die (Struck)

In a manufacturing environment, there are numerous pitfalls and problems that will conspire to prevent successful completion of a job....
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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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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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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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Mini Casting System for Smaller Studios

Mini Casting System for Smaller Studios

The mini casting system MC 15 was specially developed for use in dental casting, goldsmith work and jewelry design and...
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Forging Better Working Relationships with Subcontractors

Forging Better Working Relationships with Subcontractors

When searching for subcontractors, you can learn a lot from your friends in the jewelry industry. Many designers and jewelers...
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Vibratory Finishing Method

Vibratory Finishing Method

Chemical and mechanical processing work together to treat the vibratory finishing wastewater at Aro-Sac, increasing production, making the water reusable...
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Faster, More Efficient Laser Welders

Faster, More Efficient Laser Welders

Since their introduction to the jewelry industry, laser welders have been lauded for their speed, accuracy, and convenience of use....
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Time Saving Surface Processing: A User’s Report Part 1

Time Saving Surface Processing: A User’s Report Part 1

The film Otec offers surface processing equipment for jewelry firms. The size of the equipment can be selected to suit...
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Platinum Bridal Jewelry

If you have never manufactured with platinum and you think that you are ready, if you manufacture with platinum, but...
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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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Revolutionary PolishPlus Process

Revolutionary PolishPlus Process

The revolutionary PolishPlus process with MiracleMedia is a new mass finishing technology developed by Peter Richardson of Aurum Plus Resource...
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Revising Milled CAD/CAM Models

Revising Milled CAD/CAM Models

I have great respect for the capabilities of CAD/CAM technology, and Ive seen some absolutely amazing pieces generated by it....
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The Rush Job From Hell

The Rush Job From Hell

In the jewelry business we all get rush jobs but I think this one may just get the prize for...
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