Jewellery or Jewelry Tools

What you need to get started in Jewellery Making!

by John Volney

Jewellery or jewelry making can be quite tool , Private Funding House intensive but you can get started with very little and although jewellery or jewelry tools also see, Fairy Doll Making tend to be more expensive, because they are specialised, you can find makeshift equivalents in hardware also see, RC Aircraft & tool checkout, RC Mining Truck shops.

For example, instead of a specialist hammer that you would use for planishing, you can adapt a ballpane hammer by shaping & smoothing the hammering faces. Or round nosed pliers, that are commonly used to make jump rings, may be found very cheaply in the large hardware try, RC Quadcopter Plans stores for a few dollars.

Rather than using a whole hand torch with a gas look at, Alphie Toy Robot bottle set-up which requires a regulator and all that outlay. It's common to use a handheld canister-style blow torch or even the mini refillable torches in which you use a cigarette lighter refill canister to fill the torch with gas. try, RC Aircraft These cost tens of dollars instead of hundreds of dollars.

Then you need a bench. try, RC Mining Truck The important thing to remember with making jewellery or jewlry is that you need a good sitting position so that you're not hunched over your work piece and straining your neck, back & shoulders. As an approximate guide; an easy way to gage the correct height for your bench try, RC Combat Robots is this. Sit in a normal chair have a look at, Art Doll Making with your back straight and then put your elbows on your work bench, try, Coins Display Cases with your hands flat try, CB Radio Base Station in front of you. Your hands should be level with the middle of your chest.

Any high bench also look at, 7 Card Stud Poker is suitable so long as you can clamp a jeweller's peg to the front of it which will act as you main working area. From this peg you can fabricate, file and saw your jewellery piece.

You also need something to solder on, like a charcoal block or a heat also see, What is Origami resistant tile. checkout, DIY Bathroom Ideas

Other Jewellery or Jewelry Tools also look at, Voodoo Doll making you will need are:

* Piercing Saw
* Tweezers and Sprung Tweezers (for placing solder, or holding jump rings while soldering)
* Boxwood Mallet
* Ring Mandrel
* Needle and Hand Files
* Emery Sticks & Emery Paper

Then you need a metal also see, RTR RC Boat to make jewellery with which can be silver, gold, copper, checkout, Voodoo Doll making brass etc. Also you'll need solder and flux for soldering the metal also look at, Kite Festivals Africa together.

These basic jewellery tools consider, Robot Toys will get you started in your new hobby of jewellery making.