To illustrate a technique or motion a collection of short clip jewelry tutorial videos are posted on the YouTube channel. These videos are used in conjuction with the pdf tutorials.
Soldering Technique
Solder preparation for a seamless soldering job when joining a ring to a flat plate.
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This video is an aid to show by sound the hardness of the tapping motion when setting a round gemstone in a bezel as described in the free punch setting tutorial.
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This video shows how to shape the profile of a rubber wheel with an old file. This is in order to reach difficult v-shapes in a jewelry piece when finishing off the surface.
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Often a ring shank is made of a thicker top section and a thinner broad bottom section. This type of knife edge shank can be pre-fomed in a rolling mill to reduce filing time.
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Often the question is asked how to align my jewelers rolling mill. You don't need feeler guages or strips of metal. A quick method as demonstrated in this video is to simply us light.
This jewelry making video shows a trick of how to drill a straight hole in metal. The more accurate your drilling the more neat the eventual gemstone setting will be.
This is a tool tip on taking the guess work out of identifying the burr size. Make markings with a cut-off wheel on the burr or drill shaft to help with recognize the size of that burr quicker and easier.
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This short video demo shows a quick and easy technique to roll a metal plate into a taper when making a ring using varying gauges for the top and the bottom shank such as a signet ring.
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When shaping a ring out of a metal strip the end parts have to be cut off. Often this cut is skew causing a wide gap. Flooding the gap with solder is not ideal for a neat solder joint.
Use thrumming with office string loaded with polish and sandpaper strips to finish off the inside of collets and hard to reach areas when making jewelry.
This jewelry making video shows you tips when making pearl cups and how the pearl cup awl / pin is soldered in. This video is used as aid for the tutorial on how to make 5 different pearl cup mountings.
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You will be shown how to sand a brooch pin wire to a point in this jewelry making video by attaching two sanding disks facing each other to your flex shaft handpiece
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A technique on how to bend metal tube in a ring or full circle is shown in the jewelry making video. Using standard jewelry workbench equipment such as draw plates and tongs.
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This video explores bending hollow tubing techniques for larger diameter jewelry pieces like chokers and hollow bangles or hollow hoop earrings using brass and silver.
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