Step-by-Step Tutorials


This How To’s category is a collection of procedures to guide and aid jewelry makers and jewelry enthusiasts on from customizing and modifying tools, metal forming and manipulation, to creating other works of art.

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Gerry Lewy Video F – Bead Setting

Gerry Lewy Video F – Bead Setting

Gerry Lewy draws on his over 40 years of diamond setting experience to show you the technique of bead setting...
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Gerry Lewy Video E – Princess Setting Round Claws – V Shaped Claws – Wedding band

Gerry Lewy Video E – Princess Setting Round Claws – V Shaped Claws – Wedding band

Gerry Lewy draws on his over 40 years of diamond setting experience to show you how to set a diamond...
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Gerry Lewy Video B – Setting a Solitaire – 4 Prong – 6 Prong

Gerry Lewy Video B – Setting a Solitaire – 4 Prong – 6 Prong

Drawing on 40+ years of experience, Gerry Lewy shows you how to set a diamond in 4-prong and 6-prong solitaire...
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Gerry Lewy Video C – Bezel Setting – Channel Setting

Gerry Lewy Video C – Bezel Setting – Channel Setting

Gerry Lewy draws on his over 40 years of diamond setting experience to show you how to set a diamond...
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How to Finish a Chain End

How to Finish a Chain End

Whether you want to finish a chain you bought by the foot or repair a clasp or jump ring on...
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Photoetching Metal Using Photocopy Transfer

Photoetching Metal Using Photocopy Transfer

Photoetching metal is simple AND FUN! Etching can be used for printing processes, as an artifact of art, or for...
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Foldforming Overview and Techniques

Foldforming Overview and Techniques

Master goldsmith Charles Lewton-Brain invented foldforming and demonstrates the technique in this video. Foldforming is a system of metalworking that...
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Gerry Lewy Video A – Intro – Tool Modification – Skills

Gerry Lewy Video A – Intro – Tool Modification – Skills

Gerry Lewy draws on his over 40 years of diamond setting experience to show you how to modify simple, everyday,...
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Step by Step Guide to Single Row Pave Settings

Step by Step Guide to Single Row Pave Settings

Single-row pavé, which consists of a single row of small diamonds set into a narrow strip of metal, is a...
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How to Resize a Ring With a Stone

How to Resize a Ring With a Stone

In part 2 of this series, instructor Mechelle Lois teaches you how to re-size a ring with a stone. Sizing...
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Gerry Lewy Video D – Cluster Setting – Flush Setting

Gerry Lewy Video D – Cluster Setting – Flush Setting

Gerry Lewy draws on his over 40 years of diamond setting experience to show you how to set gems in...
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How to Repair a Hollow Rope Chain

How to Repair a Hollow Rope Chain

I took in a broken hollow rope chain bracelet for repair this week. The bracelet had caught on a desk...
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How to Make Your Own Locket

How to Make Your Own Locket

Before photography, lockets were decorated with miniature, handpainted portraits -- a luxury few could afford. The advent of affordable photographic...
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How to Create a Basic Link Chain

How to Create a Basic Link Chain

Making a simple or basic link chain to display your pendant designs is a great way to add further value...
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Different Methods on How to Resize Rings

Different Methods on How to Resize Rings

A ring fits well when it is no longer felt on the finger. If in the course of time the...
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Basic Spiral Braiding

Basic Spiral Braiding

[Step by Step] This five-strand spiral braid is made using one of the many textile techniques that Professor Arline Fisch...
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Box Clasp Fabrication

Box Clasp Fabrication

One of the most important types of closures used in jewelry is the box clasp. This clasp and its many...
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Basic Gypsy or Flush Mount Setting

Basic Gypsy or Flush Mount Setting

First the stone's diameter is measured at the pavillion and a dent is made in metal for the pilot drill...
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A Replica of the Sutton Hoo Sword

A Replica of the Sutton Hoo Sword

Considered to be one of the richest and most important archaeological finds in Great Britain, the Ship Burial known as...
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How to Make a Three-Part Silver Ring

How to Make a Three-Part Silver Ring

Using a relatively inexpensive metal and casting it in an ingot mold, you can create a sophisticated design at the...
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Forged Leaf Brooch Tutorial

Forged Leaf Brooch Tutorial

Use basic metalsmithing skills to create a brooch inspired by forms found in nature. Since the earliest civilizations, the leaf...
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Enameling Techniques for Beginners

Enameling Techniques for Beginners

After you learn to apply enamels by sifting, wet packing, brushing on crackle and firing the base coats, you are...
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Understanding the Working Titanium

Because titanium behaves somewhat differently than the standard metals in the goldsmith's workshop some special attention to its working is...
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How To Make Leaves from Metal

How To Make Leaves from Metal

A short while back I prepared this short photo tutorial showing how I make leaves from metal. I have use...
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3 Ways to Use 2-Part Epoxy Resins

3 Ways to Use 2-Part Epoxy Resins

Available in a wide variety of formulas, epoxy resins are used in jewelry making as adhesives, as coatings, and for...
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Guide to Fishtail Settings

Guide to Fishtail Settings

One of the most popular setting styles today, fishtail settings are one of the few setting methods that show off...
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Textile Techniques in Jewelry Making

Textile Techniques in Jewelry Making

Fabrics and precious metals would seem to be total opposites, like hot and cold or yin and yang. However, despite...
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Steps for Graver Preparation

Steps for Graver Preparation

Gravers are small cutting tools used for stone setting, texturing, de-burring and applying decorative embellishments and traditional hand engraving. Steps...
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Step by Step Guide to Fishtail Settings

Step by Step Guide to Fishtail Settings

One of the most popular setting styles today, fishtail settings are one of the few setting methods that show off...
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How to Make Hoop Earrings

How to Make Hoop Earrings

Tom Dougherty of Studio 2015 in Woodstock, Illinois, had an interesting process to share about making hoop earrings from tubing....
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Casting Investment Materials and Applications

Casting Investment Materials and Applications

The casting investment process enjoys wide popularity in the production of commercial and one-of-a-kind art metal objects. However, production practice...
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How to Make Earring Posts by Hand

How to Make Earring Posts by Hand

Yes you can make your own earring posts. It is generally more cost effective to buy them, but making them...
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The Basic Techniques of Shell Inlay

The Basic Techniques of Shell Inlay

To learn the art of inlay, its best to start with the basics. This project will walk you through the...
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Manufacturing Mokume Gane Jewelry

Manufacturing Mokume Gane Jewelry

Mokume gane translated from Japanese means "wood eye metal." This rare metal lamination process was developed and used by Japanese...
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Metal Spinning Part 2: Techniques

Metal Spinning Part 2: Techniques

This article is the second of a three-part series on Metal Spinning by James Seavey discussing the techniques in developing...
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Bi-Metal Casting to Titanium

Bi-Metal Casting to Titanium

Titanium and the other refractory metals other the metalsmith a new range of exotic colors - colors that are beautiful...
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How to Make a Tumbler

How to Make a Tumbler

The construction process is simple enough if you have basic do-it-yourself skills. Firstly, assemble the timber frame as shown below using...
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Pocket Watch Hinge Repair

Pocket Watch Hinge Repair

This is a beautiful old 14k yellow gold pocket watch. The outside view of the hinge shows bowing at the...
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Step-by-Step Guide to Upsizing Rings

Step-by-Step Guide to Upsizing Rings

When I ran a trade shop, time was money, and I often found myself sizing 50 to 60 rings in...
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Jewelry Rendering Tools and Projects

These pages contain a list of recommended tools to jewelry rendering, as well as a series of projects that I...
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Intro to Enameling: Cloisonne Pendant

Intro to Enameling: Cloisonne Pendant

For the last couple years the W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation has held "Intro to Enameling" workshops that are designed to...
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Making a Bezel

Making a Bezel

Making a bezel for many stones such as an antique cushion garnet can be difficult when the mandrels on hand...
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How to Mix Industrial Liquid Enamels

How to Mix Industrial Liquid Enamels

Industrial liquid enamel is a versatile material. It can be used as a base coat, directly on the metal, or...
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How to Make a Chasing or Forming Tool

How to Make a Chasing or Forming Tool

We are assuming you are using W1 water hardening square stock drill rod, W1 tool steel. Many suppliers will sell...
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Casting an Orchid Flower

Casting an Orchid Flower

Everybody scampers for executing orders in a rush against all odds to satisfy customers or - if you'#39;re lucky -...
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Anticlastic Raising Basics

Anticlastic Raising Basics

The word synclastic describes a form in which the dominant curves both move in the same direction. When the two...
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How to Resize Platinum Rings

This article offers instructions on how to resize platinum rings whether for a size smaller or bigger, as well as,...
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Steps on Making a Leaf or Ruffle

Steps on Making a Leaf or Ruffle

This fold is an example of forging on the open side, and introduces how to use hardness dams in foldforming....
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How to Quickly Dome Irregular Forms

How to Quickly Dome Irregular Forms

With this procedure you can dome nearly all regular or irregular shapes or forms, as long as the edges or...
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Bead and Bright Setting

Bead and Bright Setting

In the last issue of Bench Magazine I demonstrated how I would go about wax model carving for this unusual...
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How to Make a Wax Injector

How to Make a Wax Injector

You will require a 5 to 6 inch by 3 inch wide brass or copper tube, silver solder a cover...
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Electroforming Workshop Preparation

The size of the bath must correspond to the rectifier. You cannot have a huge bath and a small rectifier....
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CAD Modeling Prong Settings

CAD Modeling Prong Settings

If you're designing jewelry using CAD, understanding how the piece will be cast and then set and finished at the...
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How to Add a Dichroic Effect to Your Enamels

How to Add a Dichroic Effect to Your Enamels

Dichroic glass is simply beautiful. Often referred to as dichro or dicro, the term refers to multiple ultra-thin microlayers of...
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Securing Curved Stones for Easy Drilling

Securing Curved Stones for Easy Drilling

Securing curved stones when drilling can be a bit difficult. I use recycled ceramic china, beach pebbles, sea and river...
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Methods of Closing Jump Rings

In high volume production operations, many jump rings need to be closed one after another. For such fast paced operations,...
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How to Modify Tools for Carving Wax

How to Modify Tools for Carving Wax

Casting is the most important method of commercial jewelry production. Even for small workshops, lost-wax casting is often the fastest...
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Steps on Making a T-Fold Boat Fold

Steps on Making a T-Fold Boat Fold

The boat fold branch of T-folds is an interesting avenue. It permits you to have a curving, concave table, and...
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6 Basic Wire Skills to Make a Necklace

6 Basic Wire Skills to Make a Necklace

The links in this 16-in. (40.6cm) necklace are forged so they become flat and work-hardened. The pearl in the featured...
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How to Make Foredom Handpiece Shield

How to Make Foredom Handpiece Shield

This paper describes two simple methods of creating a shield to be used on the end of a Foredom handpiece....
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Testing the X1 White Gold

Testing the X1 White Gold

When it comes to white gold, my customers want the brightest, whitest white they can get -- and some are...
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Anodizing Aluminum

Anodizing Aluminum

While I was in graduate school at San Diego State University I became interested in the anodizing process. I had...
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Metal Spinning Part 3: Tooling

Metal Spinning Part 3: Tooling

As skill develops in spinning, it becomes more important to have a sense of what forms can be produced. To...
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Copper Granulation Technique

Copper Granulation Technique

Granulation, a technique used in jewelry and metalwork, is the decorative use of minute metal granules attached to the surface...
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Creating Equal Divisions in Stone Setting

Creating Equal Divisions in Stone Setting

Below are steps for an easy way to create equal divisions in setting stones that jewelers need to know. Dividing...
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Making a Metal Brooch Frame

Making a Metal Brooch Frame

This is a metal frame for a brooch which can be made without any soldering. Findings can be glued or...
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Practical Course in Goldsmithing

Practical Course in Goldsmithing

A micro-waterjet device can be used to achieve fine matt finishes on precious metal surfaces. Parts required for this are:...
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Intro to Enameling: Double-Sided Pendant 2

Intro to Enameling: Double-Sided Pendant 2

For the last couple years The W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation has held "Intro To Enameling" workshops that are designed to...
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Preparing 3D Acrylic Photopolymer Patterns

Preparing 3D Acrylic Photopolymer Patterns

Editors Note: This article is excerpted from “A New Method for Preparing 3D Acrylic Photopolymer Patterns for Investment Casting,” a...
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Steps on Making a Basic Wedge T-fold

Steps on Making a Basic Wedge T-fold

This page describes the steps to making a basic wedge T-fold
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Wax Model Carving

Wax Model Carving

Recently a customer requested that we make her an unusual mother's ring. She chose a magnificent 3.56 ct. oval blue...
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Single File

Single File

A step-by-step guide to single-row pavé settings   Single-row pavé, which consists of a single row of small diamonds set...
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Retracing Steps to Solve Casting Problems

Retracing Steps to Solve Casting Problems

A design riddled with undercuts and sharp little details just screams casting nightmare the moment the CAD file shows up....
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Bracelet Shortening and Reassembling

Bracelet Shortening and Reassembling

This Charles and Colvard created moissanite (hereafter referred to as moissanite) and two-tone karat gold in-line bracelet requires shortening by...
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Channel Setting Tools Designed For Wax

Channel Setting Tools Designed For Wax

Stone-in-place casting is growing in practice with manufacturers and retail manufacturing operations taking advantage of these labor saving techniques. Stone-in-place...
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Intro to Enameling: Double-Sided Pendant 1

Intro to Enameling: Double-Sided Pendant 1

For the last couple years The W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation has held "Intro To Enameling" workshops that are designed to...
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Rendering Design and Process

Rendering Design and Process

This is the second in a series of articles on the art and skill of rendering jewelry and small metal...
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How to Make a Carrick Mat Knot

How to Make a Carrick Mat Knot

Step by Step Tutorial - Making Three-lead Four-bight Turks-head. The Turks-Head is a general class of three-dimensional knot that lends...
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How to Make a Riffle File

How to Make a Riffle File

Every now and then when you are fabricating a piece or polishing a casting, a hole or hollow will pop...
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Jewelry Using a Microfold Brake

Jewelry Using a Microfold Brake

With a simple corrugation tool and basic metalsmithing skills, you can make these great earrings. The newest toy in my...
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Grinding and Shaping Onglette Gravers

Grinding and Shaping Onglette Gravers

This article contains the following detailed steps to give you a better understanding why grinding and shaping onglette gravers are...
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CAD/CAM Techniques

CAD/CAM Techniques

The strength of Computer Aided Design &  Manufacturing is similar to that of any other tool on the bench:it is...
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How to Customize Short Insulated Tweezers

How to Customize Short Insulated Tweezers

Customize a standard insulated tweezers to easily hold small objects much tighter...
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How to Draw Celtic Knots

How to Draw Celtic Knots

A knot is what you create when you tangle up a piece of string and join up the two ends,...
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Steps on Making a Rolled Fold Heistad Cup

Steps on Making a Rolled Fold Heistad Cup

Rolled folds are folds which utilize the rolling mill and it's unique properties of equal, directional pressure on the plastic...
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Making a Cloisonne Pendant Using Torch Fire

Making a Cloisonne Pendant Using Torch Fire

Cloisonné is a French word that means 'to be confined,' 'to be cloistered.' Traditionally, the cloisonné technique consists in making...
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Repairing an Omega Earring Clip

Repairing an Omega Earring Clip

This project shows a challenging repair and reconstruction of earrings with a broken Omega clip and heat sensitive gemstones.
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How to Make a Pewter Sake Cup

How to Make a Pewter Sake Cup

Pewter, an alloy of tin, antimony, and copper, dominated European tableware for half a millennium until it was eclipsed by...
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Transparency Making for Photoetching

Transparency Making for Photoetching

This article, "Transparency Making for Photoetching",  is the first of two parts written by Allan Liu and Carol Webb. Check...
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Channel Setting Princess Cuts

Channel Setting Princess Cuts

Recently, a woman brought in her diamonds and asked to have a ring made with them. Her requirements were very...
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How to Hammer Metal

How to Hammer Metal

Stand straight, facing the work. Once you get yourself into this correct body posture, use your feet to move yourself...
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Steps on Making a Chased Wedge T-fold

Steps on Making a Chased Wedge T-fold

This article describes the steps to making a chased wedge T-fold. To begin with a loop is made from a...
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Prong Setting Round Brilliant Gemstones

Prong Setting Round Brilliant Gemstones

For setting round brilliant gemstones in prongs, many setters and bench jeweler generalists use a 90 degree low speed bearing...
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Laser Repair: Emerald & Diamond Ring

Laser Repair: Emerald & Diamond Ring

It seems like a lot of laser repairs involve emeralds. I recall the Indiana Jones movies where "Indy" comes face...
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How to Make a Forged Platinum Pearl Ring

How to Make a Forged Platinum Pearl Ring

This project will teach welding, soldering and forging techniques. The ring is a handsome, plain design and can be applied...
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Bezel Setting Using a Lathe

Bezel Setting Using a Lathe

Bezel setting the center sapphire is normally pretty straight-forward, but I would like to share a few tricks that have...
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Steps on Making a Basic T-fold

Steps on Making a Basic T-fold

This article describes the steps to making a basic T-fold, one of the main categories of fold-forming. Numerous variations are...
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Flush Mount Diamond Setting

Flush Mount Diamond Setting

Flush setting, or "gypsy setting" as it is sometimes known, is a somewhat exacting and delicate setting technique. The main...
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Making Silver Whistles

Making Silver Whistles

Okay, so this is a bit esoteric. I mean, how many people do you know that make silver whistles. It...
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How to Set Baguettes

How to Set Baguettes

Baguette stones have four corners and a rather deep pavilion. Because of this you must handle these stones with special...
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How to Make a Plique a Jour Fairy

How to Make a Plique a Jour Fairy

This is a HIDI, (How I Do It). It is not the only way to make a piece like this,...
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How to Mount Objects in Metal Frames

How to Mount Objects in Metal Frames

For the illusion of "floating objects" Helen I. Driggs shares her technique, a step by step guide, on how to...
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Contemporary Applications of Area Inlay

Contemporary Applications of Area Inlay

The use of area inlay, called damascening or woven inlay, is common in the ancient metalwork of Iran, India, Japan,...
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John Killmaster and “The Quickening”

John Killmaster and “The Quickening”

In the early 1980's, I made a drawing based on the theme of transformation, a sudden, intuitive grasp of reality...
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How to Make a Bezel

How to Make a Bezel

There are several ways to make a "box-setting" for enameled work pieces. This is one way on how to make...
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Making a Platinum Wire Setting

Making a Platinum Wire Setting

These materials are for a platinum pendant and they include wire made of a platinum iridium alloy. This article covers...
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Using Coils To Bend Tubing

Using Coils To Bend Tubing

Many tools sold in model/hobby stores can be used for jewelry making. During a recent visit to a hobby shop,...
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Creating Beading Pliers Accessory Bezel Settings

Creating Beading Pliers Accessory Bezel Settings

Sometimes, holding on to really little parts is the greatest challenge of my day. I use tiny cabochons almost daily...
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Manufacturing a Free-Form Pendant

Manufacturing a Free-Form Pendant

This article features the manufacturing steps for a one-of-a-kind free-form pendant designed and created by Barney Jette. The center stone...
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How to Make a Heistad Cup

How to Make a Heistad Cup

Fold-forming is a hand-working technique applied to single sheets of metal to create surfaces and three-dimensional forms quickly without soldering....
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A Faberge Inspired Mechanical Jewelry Egg

A Faberge Inspired Mechanical Jewelry Egg

Early in 1984 Jack called to see if I'd be interested in creating an anniversary gift to celebrate twenty-five years...
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How to Modify Plier Tools

How to Modify Plier Tools

This is a great modification of pliers to give you a tool that mimics the shape of your thumb and...
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Bypass Shank Ring Assembly

Bypass Shank Ring Assembly

Rings with by-pass shanks are right hand and left hand specific and are not interchangeable. When creating a ring with...
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Anodizing Principles Update

Anodizing Principles Update

Although the basic anodizing principles involved in the reactive metals have been discussed in the past, a deeper insight into...
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How to Do Paper Die Embossing

How to Do Paper Die Embossing

The annealed metal is placed in a sandwich between soft 'pusher' paper and a hard paper which will serve as...
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Forged Ring Shank

Forged Ring Shank

This article describes step by step instructions how forged ring shank is done as described by Bradney W. Simon. For...
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From Titanium to a Fine Piece of Artisan Jewelry

From Titanium to a Fine Piece of Artisan Jewelry

Making prong settings for items that can not be fired in place. I would like to take you on an...
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How to Make Sharp Corner Cuts

Sawing is an essential skill for a bench jeweler. This article will show you a technique that will increase your...
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Safer Pickle Alternative

Procrastination can sometimes lead to wonderful discoveries. Tom Arnold, owner of Facets Fine Jewelry in Arlington, Virginia, found this out...
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How to Make Prong Notching Pliers

How to Make Prong Notching Pliers

These pliers notch round prongs easily to a given depth and replace a bur for the job. They are made...
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Tricks for Hollow Rings with Miniature Stakes

Make the inner band the desired size first. 18 or 20 gauge is about right. Next make the bezel or...
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CAD/CAM: Creating a Class Ring – Part 1

CAD/CAM: Creating a Class Ring – Part 1

Advanced Jewelry Technologies (owned by this author) and Rio Grande are introducing a new CAD CAM system designed to make...
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How to Modify Cross-Lock Tweezers

How to Modify Cross-Lock Tweezers

Often when soldering, it is necessary to use cross-lock tweezers to hold or steady the piece(s) being soldered. The pressure...
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Flat Topped Solitaire Setting

Flat Topped Solitaire Setting

The Flat Topped Solitaire Setting is a popular style setting that is slightly more complicated to set than the standard...
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Fabricating a Free Form Opal Pendant

Fabricating a Free Form Opal Pendant

I received this opal from a woman who had cut it years ago. Her customer was aware it had a...
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Methods for Applying Patination Solutions

Extremely clean metal surfaces give better results. See the article on Cleaning metal Surfaces for more information on cleaning.
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22K Gold Granulation on Turquoise Earrings

22K Gold Granulation on Turquoise Earrings

Featured are the materials for turquoise, platinum and 22-karat gold granulation earrings. The turquoise is 10.25 millimeters round and will...
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Making a Crown Using Welding Technology

Making a Crown Using Welding Technology

David and Diana Howard, owners of My Jeweler, Inc. in Albuquerque , NM recently worked with a local church to...
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Basic Tubing Catch Fabrication

Basic Tubing Catch Fabrication

First one chooses an appropriate metal for the various parts, that is a metal with appropriate structural for it's thickness...
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Enameled Spiral Beads

Enameled Spiral Beads

I was drawn to the idea of making enameled beads by Edmund Massow's excellent article, "Enameling Copper Balls" (Glass on...
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Creating a Rotary Burnisher

Jewelers have been going green for many years by recycling old or worn-out tools into something new and useful. Setting...
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Tool Alterations

Tool Alterations

This article describes the different tool alterations that any bench man needs to know and learn as guidance for their...
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Hints on Making Tubing

Hints on Making Tubing

This article is an extract from the book 'Hinges and Hinge-Based Catches for Jewelers and Goldsmiths' Not all sizes and...
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How to Step-Roll Wire

One requires a taper on the end of the wire to grip it with when placed through a drawplate for...
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How to Modify a Goldsmith Hammer

How to Modify a Goldsmith Hammer

Jewelers and metalsmiths have had to make their own tools throughout the ages to accomplish different tasks at the jeweler's...
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Laser Welding Prong Repairs

Laser Welding Prong Repairs

This article provides a step by step procedure on how to do laser welding prong repairs on a ring.  Laser...
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Meteorite Pendant by Jacob Albee

Meteorite Pendant by Jacob Albee

Like many jewelers, Jacob Albee of Jacob Albee Goldsmith in Burlington, Vermont, buys stones without always knowing what he’s going...
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Asscher Cut Diamond Design

Asscher Cut Diamond Design

When a customer brings you a 4.27 carat, E color, VS1 clarity, Asscher cut diamond, it's tough not to be...
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How to Make a Three Stone Dangle Pendant

How to Make a Three Stone Dangle Pendant

The assembly of this three stone pendant pendant appears simple but when using traditional methods to position and join the...
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Laser Welding Solid Back on Opal Ring

Laser Welding Solid Back on Opal Ring

This article is a step by step procedure in Laser Welding Solid Back on Opal Ring. The customer wanted a...
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Design and Creation of Elesa

Design and Creation of Elesa

While at the Atlanta Bench Jewelers Conference, my friend Elesa Dillon (the national sales manager for Southern Jewelry News and...
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Colored Gemstone Jewelry Design and Repair

An experienced bench jeweler will often be able to create almost any design that doesn't actually violate the laws of...
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Laser Welding Sizing a Two-Tone Band

Laser Welding Sizing a Two-Tone Band

Sometimes you get a job like this one. Your customer has a platinum and 18k yellow gold wedding band that...
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Creating a 14KW Rubellite Tourmaline Pendant

Creating a 14KW Rubellite Tourmaline Pendant

Steve Satow describes the procedure on creating a 14KW Rubellite Tourmaline Pendant. Creating a 14KW Rubellite Tourmaline Pendant Beginning components...
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Customized Head Polishing Pliers

Customized Head Polishing Pliers

This article describes a step by step procedure of a pair of simple pliers to become a pair of customized...
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Customized Ultrasonic Sediment Bucket

Customized Ultrasonic Sediment Bucket

This article by Steve Satow shares a step by step procedure on how t o make a customized ultrasonic sediment...
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Making Custom-Designed Earrings Using Welding Technology

Making Custom-Designed Earrings Using Welding Technology

This custom job of 14 karat yellow gold earrings with diamonds and pink tourmaline is made easy using tack-welding technology....
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Customized Earring Setting Pliers

Customized Earring Setting Pliers

Steve Satow shows the procedure for a customized earring setting pliers using a normal setting pliers. Normal setting pliers can...
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Jewelry Repairs with ABI Mini Pulse Arc III

Jewelry Repairs with ABI Mini Pulse Arc III

This article covers routine repair and assembly projects accomplished using Mini Pulse Arc III. Tack-, fusion- and pulse-arc equipment settings...
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Jewelry Designs: Faceted Stones Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Faceted Stones Pendant

Welcome to Stacey Rhodes Jewelry Designs, where we will detail all of the steps involved in adding a new piece...
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How to Modify Prong Pushers

Many stone setters would agree that one of the most challenging aspects of prong setting is getting the prongs down...
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Installing New Tapered Bezels

Installing New Tapered Bezels

This ring is in for repair and reconstruction. When it was originally made, 6-prong settings were used to mount the...
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How to Handle the Flexshaft

How to Handle the Flexshaft

In the course of my 30 years in the jewelry industry, I can recall many instances of damaged equipment and...
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Jewelry Designs: Athena Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Athena Pendant

This gemstone-encrusted shield is named in honor of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare who was worshiped as...
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Making a Pearl and Diamond Ring

Making a Pearl and Diamond Ring

This illustration is of a 14-karat white gold ring for three cultured freshwater pearls and two small accent diamonds. After...
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CAD/CAM: Modeling Project in JewelSpace

CAD/CAM: Modeling Project in JewelSpace

CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing) is bringing a new efficiency and profitability to the jewelry workplace. Who is better...
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How to Modify Separating Tweezers

How to Modify Separating Tweezers

Steve Satow shows how to modify Standard insulated tweezers to become effective ring separating tweezers.
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How to Use the Conduction Soldering Technique

The soldering process, used extensively in all aspects of jewelry manufacturing and repair, joins two or more pieces of metal...
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CAD/CAM and Expertise of David Nytch

CAD/CAM and Expertise of David Nytch

David Nytch, proprietor of West ' Co. an independently owned jewelry store in Webster, NY is changing the way customers...
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How to Make a Bas Relief Bowl

How to Make a Bas Relief Bowl

This article, written by Dottie Wood, shares photos and step by step procedure on how to make a bas relief...
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How to Make an Agate Imitation Cabochon

How to Make an Agate Imitation Cabochon

This technique consists of the successive application of silver foil sheets, changing the colors of enamels among them, and then...
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How to Modify Wooden Ring Clamps

One persistent daily challenge a bench jeweler faces is trying to figure out the best way to hold onto tiny,...
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Customized Stock Earrings

Customized Stock Earrings

This project features a stock pair of earrings that are customized for cultured pearls. The request was to design earrings...
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How to Make Equally Sized Beads

How to Make Equally Sized Beads

In this project, I will demonstrate a clever method of making equally sized beads. These beads can be used for...
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Creating a Whip Burnisher

A worn-out bristle brush can easily be recycled into a useful tool called a whip burnisher or rotary hammer to...
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The Creation of The Quickening

The Creation of The Quickening

In the early 1980’s, I made a drawing based on the theme of transformation, a sudden, intuitive grasp of reality...
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Jewelry Designs: Steeplechase Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Steeplechase Pendant

As a traditional symbol of good luck, this piece is inspired by the horseshoe. It is dedicated to the power...
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Jewelry Designs: Grace Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Grace Pendant

The Grace Pendant was designed specially for the Heart Gala, a benefit for the American Heart Association that Stacey and...
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CAD/CAM: Creating a Class Ring – Part 2

CAD/CAM: Creating a Class Ring – Part 2

These step-by-step instruction manual guides the process (see procedure for making the class ring). With a core product to produce,...
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How to Customize Curved Tip Melee Tweezers

How to Customize Curved Tip Melee Tweezers

These tweezers are great for gripping melee when straight tips don't give you enough clearance. They allow you to slide...
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