Jewelry Tools
Tools and supplies we need for making jewelry.
Things we need
- Acetylene tank, regulator, and acetylene/air torch with a few different tips
- Bench pin, V-slot
- Bezel roller
- Buffer
- Buffing wheels
- Burnisher
- Cabbing machine
- Crock pot
- Dapping set
- Fire Brick
- Fluxes
- Hammers: ball-peen, riveting, texturing and chasing
- Metal bench block
- Needle files
- Pickle (removes oxidation)
- Polishing compounds
- Prong pusher
- Pumice stone
- Ring and bracelet mandrel
- Ring-clamp
- Rolling mill
- Rubber mallet
- Sandpaper
- Saw blades (8 to 8/0)
- Solder: hard, medium, and easy
- Solder snips/shears
- Some sort of glass or ceramic bin for the used pickle
- Tongs (copper or stainless)
- Wire of various gages
- Yellow Ochre
Things that would be nice to have but not necessary
- Letter/number stamp sets
- Chainmaker Shears
- Ring Gauges
- Liver of Sulfur Gel
- Automatic torch lighter
- Draw tongs
Things we could easily make
- Bench
- Solder picks
- Draw plate
- Soft jaws
Things that we already have
- Variety of pliers
- Foredom Flex-Shaft
- Third Hands
- Saw frames
- Electric hand engraver
- Beeswax
- Steel shot polisher
- Diamond saw
- Lapper
- Casting machine