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Bench Tips Seminars

This year at the Bench Jewelers Conference the following Bench Tips seminars will be offered.

 

Favorite Tips & Tricks - Stonesetting

Jurgen Maerz & Brad Simon

 

Customize Your Tools

Steve Satow

 

Favorite Tips & Tricks – Jewelry Making

Jurgen Maerz & Brad Simon

 

 

For details go to: http://benchconference.com/seminars.html

 

2010 Bench Jewelers Conference

June 17- 19, 2010

Atlanta GA

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Wax Carving Tip

Buy a cookie sheet that will fit over the opening in your lap tray.  The kind with a half inch lip all the way around works best.  Place the cookie sheet over your lap tray when carving wax.  You can then easily dump the contents into the waste basket when finished and keep the wax filings out of your lap tray and from mixing with your metal scraps.

  ~Unknown Jeweler

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PENCIL POWER: Gaining Bur Control

With the help of a modified pencil stub, you can have a simple little grip that will give you more control when you are cutting or grinding with a bur.

 

To begin, measure along the shaft of a pencil stub about 1 inch.  Cut the stub to the proper length using a jewelers saw.

 

Once the pencil has been cut to the proper length, you must remove the pencil lead (graphite) from its core.  Take a twist drill that is the size of the bur shaft, or slightly larger, and begin cutting through the lead.

 

Once the hole has been drilled through, push the bur through the pencil stub.  You should have plenty of room to attach the end of the bur to the flex-shaft handpiece.

 

Now when cutting or grinding, you can grab the pencil stub and it will keep the bur still.  This trick also has another benefit: The leftover graphite from the pencil lead will act as lubrication, allowing the bur to turn freely as you work.

 

  ~Unknown Jeweler

Gluing Pearls

Use a wooden clothespin to clamp pearls while gluing.  A ball bur can be used to carve a recess to help hold the pearl, and a hole can be easily drilled through it to accommodate an earring post.

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Pearls,Jewelry Making,Bench Tips

Retipping Prongs

The best method to retip a stone with a point is to make a cap in the shape of the prong.  Then with a minimum of solder, attach the cap to the top of the prong.  Do Not allow solder to flow under the stone, completely encircling the stone point.  If the prong is worn to the place that it needs more work than just a cap, it is best to remove the stone and replace the crown or prong.

  ~Unknown Jeweler

Prong Retipping,V-Tip Pronge,Jewelry Repair

Customize Your Tools & Favorite Tips DVDs

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Prong Setting

After cutting a seat for a stone, clean the burs off the prongs before placing the stone into the crown.  Use a graver to cut the burs away, or scrape them off with your tweezers.  Then, polish the inside of the crown before continuing the setting process.

It's the little "extra" that makes the ordinary into extraordinary.

~Unknown Jeweler

Stonesetting,Gemstone Setting,Bench Jeweler

Stonesetting

When pave or channel setting, place a strip of double stick tape in your stone tray.  Then stones can be laid out on the tape in the same order as in the mounting.  The tape will keep them in order even if the tray is bumped.

  ~Unknown Jeweler

Stonesetting,Diamond Setting,Bench Jeweler

Colored Stone Setting

Sometimes it is difficult to see where the stone’s pavilion is hitting the inside of the crown.  To help in determining where the stone touches the crown, dust the inside of the crown with powder.  Then, carefully place the stone in the crown and press down gently.  Carefully lift the stone from the crown and examine the pavilion.  Powder will remain on the stone at the points of contact with the crown, allowing you to know where extra metal needs to be removed before setting the stone.

  ~Unknown Jeweler

Gemstone Setting,Bench Tips,Stonesetting