Posts Tagged “working hard”

Cutting Stones for Bracelet Slides
Sep 29th 2017

Cutting Stones for Bracelet Slides

Cutting stones for a Bracelet Slide is tedious and time consuming. For smaller jobs we use  the 1930's version of a Sears Craftsman Stone Cutter. It is belt driven by an old electric motor at 1750 rpm. The advantage of the belt driven arrangemen…

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Pouring Precious Metal
Aug 25th 2017

Pouring Precious Metal

Pouring gold and silver is a process that does not allow any margin of error. Many critical factors have to come together to make the pour successful. The temperature of both the flask and molten precious metal have to be correct. There is not one fo…

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