A Tale of True Grit (Or: How to reduce hand sander belt changes involving 12 different sandpapers!)

September 2, 2009

My wife was very sick today with a chest cold, so she and I both slept in. I spent much of the day indoorts helping her stay comfortable, attending to my chores for the day, and doing an indoor project which very much needed doing. While the concept of inverting a hand sander on clamps [...]

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American Sand Stand… (or, Finishing Fly-cut Fine Silver Ingots Using Upside-Down Hand Sander).

September 1, 2009

After dinner last night, I showed my wife the ingots after I had gone over them with the carbide fly cutter. My wife said, “looks nice, but why aren’t the corners even with the rest?” My daughter, viewing them with not as nearly a critical an eye, simply said “they look shiny, Daddy!”. So I [...]

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How My New Homemade Silver Ingot Engraving Vise Jaws Work…

August 31, 2009

This morning I spent some time using the engraving vise I just constructed last week, upon the other two fine silver ingots I had on hand. The pictures say more than I really can… I really like the results! I especially enjoy how using this vise causes me to waste a lot less silver. I [...]

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Graduating From Pewter Science: I Machined Aluminum Vise Jaws To Hold A Fine Silver Ingot!

August 28, 2009

Thank you all for your encouragement and advise so far! A previous commenter suggested I create my own engraving jaws to hold a silver ingot in place for both effacing and engraving operations. Since I knew I needed something like this to progress further working in silver, I finally gathered the necessary courage to work [...]

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Prevent REALLY Close Shaves On Your Taig CNC Mill Vise by Proper Indicating

August 22, 2009

I hope you readers will appreciate the effort going into this blog. I’m not yet at jewelry with a CNC mill and will take a long while to get there. I’m treating my own journey into the unknown as a travelogue with notes and pictures. Today I will fix a mistake I made previously… attempting [...]

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When you’re hot, you’re HOT!

August 21, 2009

One of the drawbacks of crafting in an outside shed without air conditioning in north-eastern Arizona weather in August in the middle of the afternoon, is the simple fact that heatstroke can easily creep up on you while you shrug it off as simple fatigue. I was trying to indicate my vise, so I woke [...]

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A clean bill of health!

August 20, 2009

Just a quick note I am dashing off… It has been a week since my face and back lesions were taken… the stitches were taken out today by a nurse, I got negative reports (no melanomas) on both samples, and my doctor says I can use my back again! So now I can think about [...]

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Suture Self!

August 13, 2009

Hi, readers! Today I have had some minor surgery to remove skin lesion from the right hand side of my face, and to remove a mole from my upper left shoulder. The doctor tells me that I may not bend my back for a week, otherwise the sutures would rupture. I will find out the [...]

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How To Ruin A Perfectly Good Silver Ingot (or: Surfacing Silver Using A Fly-Cutter on a Taig)

August 12, 2009

I decided to start using 1 ounce fine silver trade ingots as my raw material. There are some reasons for this due to my location and experience (or lack of it). Between reading the Ganoksin forums and the PMC websites, I wanted to strike a compromise between cutting sterling and using Precious Metal Clay (PMC) [...]

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Home Is Where The Taig Is…

August 11, 2009

If you have a Taig CNC milling machine odds are that you have been playing with your machine for a long while before reading this post. I highly recommend that anyone playing with CNC machines who had no prior experience like myself use very soft materials at first. I must confess having an engineering education [...]

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