[Jewelry making - Article 00413] - Re: [Orchid] Red Gold Problems for the Forum

[Don Rogers]

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>     What is a porosity hammer? 

    I hadn't heard of the screw eye but that is just a different version.
     A friend of mine uses a bent nail.  Just a common nail with the head
    cut off, the end polished out, and then bent at about 10 degrees or
    so.  I have a tool I've had for years called a porosity killer.  It
    is basically just a square steel piece, about 5/8" square and 1/8"
    thick with rounded corners and a center hole to allow mounting on a
    mandrel.  My friend's tool whacks the target once a revolution,  the
    screw eye get it twice,mine gets it four times.  A recent tip on one
    of the magazines suggested using a piece of Allen wrench which is
    polished for bezel settings. This is the same idea but with this, the
    metal gets whacked six times per rev. With more steps per rev, the
    more gentle it becomes. 

Don

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