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September 9, 2016 · 12:38 am

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Tip Of The Month-September 9, 2016

This is a soldering tip. Charcoal blocks, can’t live without them. I use them for a lot of soldering jobs, like most of my nose rings. The handy thing about them is you can drill and carve into them. I drill holes for earring posts and nose stud stems and then insert the wire and construct the design on top. You can also carve into the charcoal to set tubing for hinges in, so that they have the same thickness of tubing is on  both sides of the pieces you are attaching them to.

 

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August 17, 2016 · 1:01 am

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Tip Of The Month- August, 17, 2016

This is an important tip!

Get yourself THE BEST TOOLS you can afford!

I just broke my cheap little third hand, you know the little weighted stand with a ball joint that holds a pair of cross locking tweezers.

I was looking for something better and found this at RIO GRANDE!

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3rd and 4th hand with soldering station. It is a little expensive but I don’t know what I would do without it now that I have been using it!

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all parts are replaceable, down to the tips on the clips, and the fire board.

 

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May 9, 2016 · 6:19 pm

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Tip Of The Month- May,09,2016

Hello everyone,

I have a texture hack for you today, this past winter I was wondering how to get that cool texture that is just like a soft mottled texture like I have on this piece I am working on.

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I love this texture its like grunge texture and it will look awesome when I patina it. the trick I found is to use a weighted nylon mallet and a fire brick, just place the piece of metal face down on the fire brick and hammer it with medium force, you may also want to move it around to get more variety of pattern.

 

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April 10, 2016 · 5:02 pm

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Tip Of The Month- April 10, 2016

If you have ever stamped a piece of metal you know how hard it can be to line everything up. The last thing you need to worry about is the metal moving. so the tip is blue painters tape, any tape will do but painters tape won’t leave gunk on your metal or bench block

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March 9, 2016 · 11:14 pm

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Once a month I am going to post one tip for making jewelry.

Most of these tips I have found in articles and learned from other jewelers.

So lets get started!

Tip Of The Month- March 9, 2016

How to make your own locking earring posts.

Sure you can just take a piece of wire and solder it to the back of an earring, But it just doesn’t have the professional finished quality of a locking post.

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If you take that piece of wire and put it in your flex shaft

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and using a pair of round nose pliers, pinch it with a light even pressure

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turn the flex shaft at a low to medium speed.

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You get a locking point for an ear nut. Now just clean up the end with some sand paper, while turning it in the flex shaft, or take it out and use a cup bur and it is ready to solder on to an earring

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