[Ganoksin] [Issue #135] Tips From The Jeweler's Bench

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In This Edition:

1. Fine Craft Shows Fill a Unique Niche in The Jewelry World
2. Georgian Cloisonne Enamel - From The Beginning, Up To Today
3. Getting Optimum Performance From Your Casting Investment Powder
4. Enameling Safety Issues
5. Anticlastic Raising Basics
6. Fold-Forming: T-Fold Boat Fold
7. Book Review - "At the Bench" By Gregg Todd, Greg Gilman

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In This Edition of Tips From The Jeweler's Bench
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/tip_sear.htm

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1. Fine Craft Shows Fill a Unique Niche in The Jewelry World
By Suzanne Wade

For jewelry artists, it's an opportunity to sell work that has become
difficult to place at price-conscious mainstream jewelry stores. For
the public, it's a chance to buy innovative jewelry that they might
otherwise never have seen. And for the savvy retailer -- be it a
gallery owner or just an independent jeweler looking for something to
set her store apart from the crowd -- it's a great place to find new
sources....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nena...rafts-show.htm

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2. Georgian Cloisonne Enamel - From The Beginning, Up To Today
By Khatuna Babunashvili

In the conditions of world globalization, a big part of modern mankind
realized how important human ties are to their roots. Once neglected
traditions today acquire vital importance. People search for and go
back to old traditions, create and implement new ones, which time will
give their proper places in the processes of the development of
mankind. Georgia, with its spiritual and material treasures, occupies a
very significant place in the world culture. We have not mentioned
spiritual and material culture accidentally, as the story that we are
going to tell unites in itself both of the se two concepts and
perfectly ties them to each other. This is Georgian cloisonne enamel,
which according to the survived earliest examples counts at least
twelve hundred years of existence....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nena...ian-enamel.htm

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3. Getting Optimum Performance From Your Casting Investment Powder
By Ralph Carter

In each step of manufacturing jewelry, there are many factors that can
adversely affect quality. Because of this, process control is very
important. Investing is one of those steps in which process control is
vital. Most investment manufacturers help the investor control the
process variables by providing a consistent product, user instructions
and technical support. However, improper handling of the investment
powder often destroys their efforts. Improper storage, poor water
quality, wrong mixing ratios, insufficient mixing methods, uncontrolled
temperatures and others can each reduce casting quality and thus cause
loss of production and money. This paper will present some data that
will show what some factors do to the various investment properties....


Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nena...ent-powder.htm

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4. Enameling Safety Issues
By Charles Lewton-Brain

Enameling involves the firing and melting of suitable glasses onto and
into metals for decorative effects. It is done at fairly high
temperatures, from 1200F (649C) to a high kiln temperature of 1700F
(927C) or so.The primary dangers involve dusts, the particle size of
the enamel used, the chemical constituents of the enamel (older enamels
frequently contain lead and other toxic metal oxides and chemicals),
the infrared radiation of the kiln and sundry opportunities to burn
oneself. Enamelists in factories have even been killed by scalds from
water when molten enamel was dumped into it....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nena...ing-safety.htm

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5. Anticlastic Raising Basics
By Tim McCreight

The word synclastic describes a form in which the dominant curves both
move in the same direction. When the two dominant axes curve in
opposite directions the result is known as an anticlastic form. A bowl
is a synclastic form and a saddle is an anticlastic form....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nena...ic-raising.htm

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6. Fold-Forming: T-Fold Boat Fold
By Charles Lewton-Brain

The boat fold branch of T-folds is an interesting avenue. It permits
you to have a curving, concave table, and to produce shaped tables as
well as other complex derivations. The basic boat is begun by making a
wedge T-fold. After the first angle is made the loop is tipped in the
other direction and pinched again to produce the boat pillow form....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/boat-fold.htm

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7. Book Review - "At the Bench" By Gregg Todd, Greg Gilman
Review by Chris Corti, The World Gold Council.

This soft back book is a practical guide intended for practising
goldsmiths and is developed from a number of articles by the authors
originally published in AJM magazine. It comprises articles and
projects on making and repairing jewellery. Its aim is to show how one
can save time and boost profits when making or repairing jewellery
through good practice. It features over 200 colour photographs that
illustrate the various steps and techniques.....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/at-the-bench.htm

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