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Worshiping in the Template Temple
I'm trying to find a source for templates.
Either the aluminium type or (preferably) the green, clearish stuff. I need 5 & 6 pointed stars, triangles, squares, etc. ranging from 1/4" down as small as possible and hopefully with many sizes in between. Help? |
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Worshiping in the Template Temple
Frosty wrote:
I'm trying to find a source for templates. Either the aluminium type or (preferably) the green, clearish stuff. I need 5 & 6 pointed stars, triangles, squares, etc. ranging from 1/4" down as small as possible and hopefully with many sizes in between. Help? Yea yea yea!! I know, I get called all sorts of things, mainly a bronze age smith, by my better half. Now you want templates, you might have read that im in the UK, so unless your here too I dont have any info to help you. Here there are plenty of Co's that have press tools to make all sorts of shapes in gold and silver as its the traditional way to mass produce lots of the same thing. Ive lots of these here but mainly much larger shapes. You use a fly press or maybe you call them screw presses with open tooling thats the way its done here. If you want to know whats open tooling ask. So what would I do if I was in your situation. Id use the photoshop route and print out all the shapes in the sizes I needed, having used draughtsmens templates to drawthem initially, , glue this to my ali sheet then saw them out with a jewellers piercing saw. Yes I know this would be tedious, but it would do the job. What do you think? Anyway where are you Frosty? |
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Worshiping in the Template Temple
Frosty wrote:
I'm trying to find a source for templates. Either the aluminium type or (preferably) the green, clearish stuff. I need 5 & 6 pointed stars, triangles, squares, etc. ranging from 1/4" down as small as possible and hopefully with many sizes in between. Help? I make any and all of those shapes in Corel Draw or Canvas, print then on vellum, glue them to metal and cut. When I want more accuracy with complex shapes, I puncture the paper template after gluing with a scribe along the lines in many spots, remove the paper and cut. -- Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com |
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:53:28 GMT in rec.crafts.jewelry ted frater
, intended to write something intelligible, but instead wrote : Frosty wrote: I'm trying to find a source for templates. Either the aluminium type or (preferably) the green, clearish stuff. I need 5 & 6 pointed stars, triangles, squares, etc. ranging from 1/4" down as small as possible and hopefully with many sizes in between. =20 Help? =20 Yea yea yea!! I know, I get called all sorts of things, mainly a bronze=20 age smith, by my better half. Now you want templates, you might have read that im in the UK, so=20 unless your here too I dont have any info to help you. Here there are plenty of Co's that have press tools to make all sorts=20 of shapes in gold and silver as its the traditional way to mass produce=20 lots of the same thing. Ive lots of these here but mainly much larger=20 shapes. You use a fly press or maybe you call them screw presses with=20 open tooling thats the way its done here. If you want to know whats open= =20 tooling ask. So what would I do if I was in your situation. Id use the photoshop=20 route and print out all the shapes in the sizes I needed, having used=20 draughtsmens templates to drawthem initially, , glue this to my ali=20 sheet then saw them out with a jewellers piercing saw. Yes I know this=20 would be tedious, but it would do the job. What do you think? Anyway where are you Frosty? Jeez yeah buddy! Tedious? Frickin' heir-tearin' frickin' nutz it would be! That's my last resort. I know it's an option. I don't care where in the world these templates are, I can convert from =A3 to $ if need be. I'm in Tennessee, USA --=20 Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes=20 |
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:20:53 -0800, in rec.crafts.jewelry Abrasha
wrote: I make any and all of those shapes in Corel Draw or Canvas, print then on vellum, glue them to metal and cut. A variation, after drawing the shapes on the computer (decent drawing software would make it easy to generate a single shape, then repeat it, each time changing the scale, thus generating a drawing with your stars or whatever, as line outline drawings, in your desired range of sizes for sheet printout of a template), would be to print it, on a laser printer, on PNP blue stock, which by the time you're done, is an iron on photo resist. Just the ironed on image on metal is each to use as a guide for sawing, or, I'm thinking if you'd ironed it on thin brass shim stock, a few minutes in dilute nitric acid would etch through the lines, leaving you with a permanent template... Peter |
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Worshiping in the Template Temple
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:31:05 -0000, Frosty wrote:
I'm trying to find a source for templates. Either the aluminium type or (preferably) the green, clearish stuff. I need 5 & 6 pointed stars, triangles, squares, etc. ranging from 1/4" down as small as possible and hopefully with many sizes in between. Help? Hi Frosty, Any chance of knowing what you want the templates for? As there might just be another way to achieve what you want thats simpler? quicker? or easier. Let us know. the collective experience here surely will find a way. Ted. -- |
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:04:58 GMT in rec.crafts.jewelry "ted.frater"
, intended to write something intelligible, but instead wrote : On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:31:05 -0000, Frosty wrote: I'm trying to find a source for templates. Either the aluminium type or (preferably) the green, clearish stuff. I need 5 & 6 pointed stars, triangles, squares, etc. ranging from 1/4" down as small as possible and hopefully with many sizes in between. Help? Hi Frosty, Any chance of knowing what you want the templates for? As there might just be another way to achieve what you want thats simpler? quicker? or easier. Let us know. the collective experience here surely will find a way. Ted. Setting stones with a graver. Like sorta bright-cut looking stuff, ya know? |
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Worshiping in the Template Temple
Frosty wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:04:58 GMT in rec.crafts.jewelry "ted.frater" , intended to write something intelligible, but instead wrote : On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:31:05 -0000, Frosty wrote: I'm trying to find a source for templates. Either the aluminium type or (preferably) the green, clearish stuff. I need 5 & 6 pointed stars, triangles, squares, etc. ranging from 1/4" down as small as possible and hopefully with many sizes in between. Help? Hi Frosty, Any chance of knowing what you want the templates for? As there might just be another way to achieve what you want thats simpler? quicker? or easier. Let us know. the collective experience here surely will find a way. Ted. Setting stones with a graver. Like sorta bright-cut looking stuff, ya know? Well i know in principle how stones are set using a graver, you raise several burrs of metal upstanding around the stone then bend down to hold the stone in place. I presume you already have made the depression in which the stone sits. so where does the template come in? do you scribe around it to mark out to where the flats or edge of the stone are to be so your burrs are just in the right place? Peter, your the stone specialist here, or can someone enlighten me? If the template is smaller than saw 1/8in across, then its going to be somewhat difficult to place/ locate in exactly the right place . Ive thought of a simpler way to do this but need to be sure how the templates are used before I open my big mouth and get it all wrong. Ted |
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