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The E-Mail Newsletter
for Bench Jewelers
September 2006
Volume 7 Issue 09 circulation over 4,300
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Tips for Jewelers Who Do Repairs
From Alan Revere
GETTING INTO THE GROVE: How to Make a Groovy Bench Pin
As the focal pint of the jewelers bench, the bench pin is a reflection of how you work and what you do. It is the central holding device, and it can be customized to better serve your needs. The bench pin can be filed or sawed to hold various pieces of metal. A handy modification that you can do to your bench pin is to carve precision cross grooves that hold metal rod or wire for sawing or
filing.
To accomplish this, use a machinists square to lay out three parallel lines across the bench pin; they should be perpendicular to the side of the pin. Remove the bench pin and place it in a mounted vise. Use square files to carve precise grooves along the lines in three different sizes to accommodate a range of diameters, from about 1mm to 4mm
deep.
Now, when you need to cut off a section of rod or wire of any shape, place the metal into the appropriate groove and saw across, using the side of the bench pin as a guide. You can also use the grooves to stabilize metal if you are trying to file a perpendicular surface on the end.
This tip is from 101 Bench Tips for Jewelers
written by Alan Revere and published
by
MJSA/AJM Press.
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STAR SAPPHIRE
The star in star sapphire (asterism) is caused by microscopic needles of rutile intersecting at sixty degrees. When a translucent or transparent sapphire containing these inclusions is cut en cabochon and highly polished, light reflects from the inclusions in such a way that a six-legged star is
visible.
Star sapphire occurs in many colors, including black. These stones, like all corundum, are quite tough and heat resistant, but common sense should be used to avoid excessive heat. Once in a while you may encounter a black stone with a four-rayed star instead of six. This is star diopside, often sold to tourists
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as sapphire. It is inexpensive, although rarely seen anymore, and quite beautiful in its own right. It is not nearly so durable as sapphire, and is prone to damage from moderate heat. If you see four rays, no heat, please!
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Arrange setting burs in
order in a bur block.
Write on the block by each
hole the size of the
bur in millimeters. When setting
stones, you
will not waste time looking for and measuring
the correct size bur.
Always use a lubricant on
burs while cutting.
This will make smoother
cuts and extend the
burs life. Solid wax-based
lubricants, such
as Bur Life, are handy to use and are less
messy than oil-based lubricants. They can be
mounted on the front edge of your bench, or on
the side of your bench pin. Mounting on the
side of your bench pin provides easy access;
just make certain it is mounted below the top
edge of your bench pin to stay out of the way
of your work.
Undercut the wall on the outside of the
curve
when setting stones into a curved channel.
Then, secure the stones by hammering or
bending
the inside channel wall over the stones.
Although some mounting designs will not
allow
you to set in this manner it is more efficient
than trying to secure the stones with the metal
from the outside wall. When metal is forced
inward in a curve, it tends to buckle, or
spring back. In addition, pressing in on the
stones to tighten them may force the stones
together causing them to chip.
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Tips that make working with Platinum or
working at the bench in general
easier-
from Jurgen J. Maerz CMBJ,
Director of Technical Education
for Platinum Guild International
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Sizing a Platinum Ring using a Laser
If there is still a gap between the opposing ends of the ring this is not a problem as it will be filled with the laser. If the ring was being soldered this gap would have to be closed.
With a small beam setting and the voltage set to 300V, take your first shots at the ring. These will deeply penetrate the metal and stitch the two sides of the ring together. Turn the ring all the way around as subsequent shots are fired, welding the two ends together and leaving a welded trough.
Once the ring is welded together, some additional wire is needed to fill the trough that the initial weld left behind. This is done by melting small amounts of 0.2 mm round wire, of the same platinum alloy as the ring, into the groove.
Widen the beam to flatten the extra molten metal along the groove. Do this by overlapping the laser shots to create flat metal puddles along the surface.
During the welding of the inside seam, the edge of the ring, which is quite thin, may begin to melt inwards as the laser follows its contour. If this happens, add more of the 0.2 mm wire to that edge to straighten out the line. You can use the same laser settings.
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Thumb Guard One readily available item in office supply stores that is useful for jewelers is Thumb Guards. What are they good for? One thing is that they will protect the thumb-pad so you will not get cuts from the graver you could be using. Imagine receiving multiple cuts and then using the polishing machine. Think of the residue that is now being built INTO YOUR finger?
What kind of guard and what size should you use? A proper fitting thumb guard must have ventilation, or your thumb will soften and not give you proper setting co-ordination. Do not buy a guard that is too tight as it will restrict blood flow and compress the sides of your thumb.
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Workshop Safety Tips From Charles Lewton-Brian
Studio Colors
Your studio is an entire environment. Make it as comfortable for you and your eyes as possible. Make it a nice place to be and you will do better work. We selected blue and gray as theme colors for our teaching studio years ago and people enjoy it. All table surfaces are gray (smoke gray) so that things show up easily, are easy to find and there is no great contrast on the bench top. I am a big believer in white paint on the walls and neutral colors elsewhere.
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