Category Archives: Tips & Tricks
Keeping Tabs on your Sawblades
After sawing do you put your saw away with the blade still in the [...]
Oct
Basic Riveting
Step 1 Select your stamping blanks or sheet metal. Step 2 Position the blanks in [...]
Sep
Soldering Tiny Things
When soldering really small pieces it helps to leave the parts whole. So, in [...]
Sep
Saw, Solder, Finish.
When you make jewellery by hand you’re usually fabricating it. This simply means that you’re [...]
Sep
How to Make Boho Steampunk Earrings
This is a fun opportunity to get a little wild with your choice of components [...]
Sep
How To Copper Electroform
Materials: 18g copper wire (for the ring shank) 22g copper wire (to connect the ring [...]
Aug
Dapping & Forming
Mandrels are necessary in every jeweller’s toolbox. There are mandrels for bezels, rings, bracelets , [...]
Aug
Sanding Difficult Areas Made Easy
Strengthen sandpaper on the back with sellotape/packaging tape then cut into narrow strips. [...]
Aug
Files
There are many different cuts, shapes and varieties of files some files are designed to [...]
Aug
5 Creative Uses For Jump Rings
Play around with jump rings! These are quick assembly and soldering pieces that are [...]
Aug
Finding a gemstone in the ultrasonic
Working in hot water trying to find the gemstone that rattled out in the Ultrasonic [...]
Aug