Jewelry Tools

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Tools and supplies we need for making jewelry.

Things we need

  • Fire Bricks
  • Loose pumice stone
  • Ventilation (!)

Things that would be nice to have but not necessary

  • Burnout furnace (full-size)
  • Cabbing machine
  • Casting machine (full-size)
  • Chainmaker shears
  • Liver of Sulfur Gel
  • Wet/ dry sandpaper
  • Some sort of glass or ceramic bin for the used pickle
  • Wire of various gages
  • Yellow Ochre

Things we could easily make

  • Benches
  • Draw plate
  • Soft jaws
  • Vacuum casting table (?!)

Things that we already have

  • 20-ton hydraulic press
  • Burnout Furnace (small, dental)
  • Casting machine (small, dental)
  • Diamond saw
  • Electric hand engraver
  • Foredom Flex-Shafts
  • Headband magnifiers
  • Lapper
  • Ring Gauges
  • Rolling mill
  • Saw frames
  • Urethane pads for hydraulic press
  • Vibratory tumbler
  • Also...
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Abrasive disks Abrasives.jpg
Binding wire Binding wire.jpg
Buffer Buffer.jpg
Misc. burrs Burrs.jpg
Drill bits Drill bits.jpg
Equipment cabinet Equipment cabinet.jpg
Files Files.jpg
Automatic torch lighter, flux, strikers Flux strikers.jpg
Ring mandrels, bracelet mandrels, dapping blocks & punches, misc forming tools Forming tools.jpg
Gravers Gravers.jpg
Hammers, mallets Hammers.jpg
Letter punches Letter punches.jpg
Pickle, crock pot, copper tongs Pickle tongs.jpg
Pliers, solder snips, shears, draw tongs Pliers cutters.jpg
Polishing compounds Polishing compounds.jpg
Polishing wheels Polishing wheels.jpg
Ring clamps, burnishers, prong pushers, bezel rollers Ring clamps misc.jpg
Saw blades Saw blades.jpg
Setting and ball burrs Setting burrs.jpg
Acetylene tank, regulator, and acetylene/air torch with a few different tips Smith torch.jpg
Solder picks, third hand, tweezers Solder picks tweezers.jpg
Solder: easy, medium & hard Solder.jpg
Bench pins, vices Vices.jpg