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[Issue #155] Tips From The Jeweler's Bench
The Ganoksin Project
S i n c e 1 9 9 6 Jewelry Manufacturing Methods and Techniques http://www.ganoksin.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Orchid Summer Raffle - Build a Bench This is your chance to win some amazing prizes!! The total for prizes value is $12,025.90 US$! Grand Prize: $ 10,525.90 2nd Prize: $1,000 3rd Prize: $500 he winners will be selected on August 1, 2006 http://www.ganoksin.com/events/summer-06.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clasp - A Convergence of Jewelers. Nashville, Tennessee, September 15-17, 2006. http://www.claspconvergence.com Brought to you by Rio Grande, The Ganoksin Project, Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America (MJSA), The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG), and Bench Media. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- In This Edition: 1. Use Cold Connections To Make Your Jewelry Hot 2. Modern Lockets 3. Three Details That Have a Big Impact on Jewelry Buyers 4. Spreading The Word - Ten Steps Toward Achieving Great PR 5. Bracelet Tongue Replacement 6. A Stone Laser Shield 7. The World of Pearls - Introduction and Overview 8. The Tahitian Black Pearl 9. Ganoksin Summer Raffle - Build a Bench ------------------------------------------------------------------------- In This Edition of Tips From The Jeweler's Bench http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/tip_sear.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Book! - Making the Most of Your Flex-shaft By Karen Christians Making the Most of Your Flex-shaft is the one resource you'll need to ensure you gain maximum advantage from your flex-shaft system. Learn how to select the right system, how to choose and use the latest accessories and attachments, and how to properly maintain your system for extended life. See why so many jewelers are reading this book and discovering what they didn't know about their flex-shaft systems! Prime Sponsor: Rio Grande Patrons: Foredom and 3M Inc Price: $34.95 (Shipping: $5 USA, $9 International) Get your own copy of Making the Most of Your Flex-shaft: http://www.ganoksin.com/item--Orchid...-flexshaftbook ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Use Cold Connections To Make Your Jewelry Hot By Sung Woo Hong Cold connections are great alternatives to soldering, especially if you want to use fragile or flammable materials in your jewelry designs. Cold connections have many variations, and this project will give you a closer look at hinged tabs and two styles of rivets. In this bracelet, they become more than just a heat-free option -- they are the focus of the design. Half of the bracelet's brass panels are riveted flush to the copper links, while alternate brass panels are raised with spaced rivets. For added design interest, the brass panels are embossed using roll-printing. The hinged tab s connect the bracelet links and visually blend with the clasp for a seamless look.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/rivets.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Modern Lockets By Nanz Aalund Before photography, lockets were decorated with miniature, handpainted portraits -- a luxury few could afford. The advent of affordable photographic miniatures propelled the locket to the forefront of jewelry fashion during the sentimental Victorian era. Between 1890 and 1920, ornately crafted lockets were suspended from bracelets, necklaces, brooches, belts, and chatelaines. Ladies of fashion were not seen without one, and men wore them on their watch chains. During World War I, many soldiers wore lockets into battle as a reminder of loved ones at home. Lockets have since fallen out of fashion, and distinctive lockets are hard to find. With this project, you no longer have to rely on a fashion trend to have a high-quality locket -- you can create your own. You will learn how to make the traditional hinged locket and an easier slide locket.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nena...rn-lockets.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Three Details That Have a Big Impact on Jewelry Buyers By Michael Bondanza Quality matters to Michael Bondanza; he has been known to rebuild entire finished pieces -- some containing hundreds of precisely inlaid stones and articulated component parts -- to ensure that the gems aligned exactly, the hinges opened smoothly, and every detail met his exacting standards. Such dedication to craftsmanship has earned him world renown over his 30 - year career, as well as a clientele that includes The Johnson Family's Diamond Cellar, Lux Bond & Green, and Tivol, to name just a few. Yet not every detail requires great investments of time or money to produce. In this arti cle, Bondanza describes three small improvements that can be made at very little cost, but which can transform the quality of a piece from average to exquisite.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/finer-points.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Orchid Summer Raffle - Build a Bench This is your chance to win some amazing prizes!! The total for prizes value is $12,025.90 US$! Grand Prize: $ 10,525.90 2nd Prize: $1,000 3rd Prize: $500 he winners will be selected on August 1, 2006 http://www.ganoksin.com/events/summer-06.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Spreading The Word - Ten steps Toward Achieving Great PR By Linda Goldstein Dunay For more than 30 years, Linda Goldstein Dunay has devoted her career to helping fine jewelry manufacturers reach their customers. The founder of Goldstein Com-munications in New York City, she has worked with a range of clients, including The JCK Show -- Las Vegas, Hearts on Fire, and her husb and, Henry Dunay. Yet regardless of the client, achieving great PR relies on following a few basic tenets, which are outlined below.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/pr-101.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Bracelet Tongue Replacement By Brad Simon With the popularity of tennis bracelets over the last 20 years replacing broken tongues has become a common repair in the jewelry shop. Typically these are replaced by soldering a new tongue in place. However, using a torch to solder a tongue onto a bracelet creates two problems.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nena...gue-repair.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. A Stone Laser Shield By Steve Satow I have found this to be a most useful tool to use when rebuilding a bezel using a Laser Welder. It is made from a watchmaker's screwdriver and is used to deflect the excess energy reflected at a sensitive stone to prevent damage to the stone's surface. This view of the finished product shows 1.5mm X 2mm piece of fine silver welded to the blade tip.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nena...ser-shield.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. The World of Pearls - Introduction and Overview By Richard W. Wise The romance of the South Seas! The exotic mystery of the black pearl! It is this combination that has lured me to travel over ten thousand miles to Manihi Island, a remote speck of land in the Tuamotu island group, three hundred fifty miles northeast of Tahiti. It is only in these far-off islands that the natural conditions exist for the culture of this unique gem.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nena...-of-pearls.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. The Tahitian Black Pearl By Richard W. Wise The black pearl was not known at all in the West in ancient times. Black pearls first came on the market in 1845. Originally they were not highly esteemed, selling for a fraction of the price brought by white pearls from the traditional sources in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Mannar. The Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, was the person most responsible for bringing the black pearl into fashion. After the fall of Napoleon III, a fine necklace owned by the former Empress was auctioned at Christie's for twenty thousand dollars, the equivalent of several hundred thousand of today's dollars.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/black-pearls.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Ganoksin Summer Raffle - Build a Bench Join Ganoksin's Summer Raffle with its all new vendors and all kinds of great prizes to help jewelers, metalsmiths and gem enthusiasts like you to outfit your studio. http://www.ganoksin.com/events/summer-06.htm Total prize package is $12,025.90 All raffle proceeds go directly to support Ganoksin and supports exchange of free information for all. The winners will be selected on August 1, 2006. Ticket price is only $39! Our comprehensive list of suppliers are those who believe in Orchid and the power of jewelry information exchange. Please do your part in supporting these vendors when you think of your next purchase. You asked, we listened! There will now be THREE winners of the Ganoksin Raffle. This is your chance to win these amazing prizes. The total value of the prizes is $12,025.90 .................................................. ... ~ Grand Prize: $ 10,475.90 ~ 2nd Prize: $1,000 ~ 3rd Prize: $500 http://www.ganoksin.com/events/summer-06.htm .................................................. ... Grand Prize: $ 10,475.90 ~ Gold banner advertising account on Ganoksin - $1,599 ~ Triad - Sparkie II Fusion Welder - $1,075 ~ Whitney World Wide - Gift Certificate for $1035 worth of tools - ~ Metalwerx - Gift Certificate - $1,000 ~ CLASP - Registration - $715 ~ Cloud Dome - Light diffuser dome for jewelry photography - $500 ~ Fretz Stakes - Gift Certificate for $500 worth of tools - $500 ~ JNB Studio - Complete set of Engraving Master Series DVDs- $500 ~ Michael Good - Synclastic anticlastic hammers and stakes - $450 ~ Foredom - 2220, New SR motor, Jewelers Kit - $400 ~ Myron Toback - Gift Certificate for $400 worth of tools - $400 ~ Jason Penn Designs - Gift Certificate of $350 for unusual cabs - $350 ~ Warg Enamel & Tool Center - Gift Certificate for $300 worth of tools - $300 ~ Gesswein - Gift Certificate for $300 worth of tools - $300 ~ Parker casting (formely Henkel) Production Gift Certificate - $300 ~ Rare Earth Mining - Gift Certificate for $300 worth of gemstones -$300 ~ Foredom - Jewelers Flexible-Shaft - $280 ~ Jewelry Designer Manager Pro Software licence - $259.95 ~ Ronda Coryell's Art of Granulation DVD - $177 ~ AJM/MJSA - Making the Most of your Flex-Shaft - $34.95 .................................................. ... 2nd Prize $ 1000 ~ Rio Grande - Gift Certificate for $1000 worth of tools .................................................. ... 3rd Prize: $ 500 ~ Boony Doon - Gift Certificate for $500 worth of tools .................................................. ... Remember: Ganoksin raffle tickets sold out fast! Purchase a ticket today. It's easy! Simply point your browser to http://www.ganoksin.com/events/summer-06.htm Hanuman The Ganoksin Project http://www.ganoksin.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Put an Orchid on your Bench Join the most popular online community for jewelery makers, The Orchid forums at http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ganoksin Project (http://www.ganoksin.com) is the largest virtual single information source for searchable archived content for jewelry and metals in the world. Its 6,500 Orchid members foster sharing, support community, enhance productivity and encourage studio safety, by promoting education in the jewelry and metal arts worldwide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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