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[Issue #155] Tips From The Jeweler's Bench



 
 
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Default [Issue #155] Tips From The Jeweler's Bench

The Ganoksin Project
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Jewelry Manufacturing Methods and Techniques
http://www.ganoksin.com

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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

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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.

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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

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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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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
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Get your own copy of Making the Most of Your Flex-shaft:
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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~ Grand Prize: $ 10,475.90
~ 2nd Prize: $1,000
~ 3rd Prize: $500

http://www.ganoksin.com/events/summer-06.htm

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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

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2nd Prize $ 1000

~ Rio Grande - Gift Certificate for $1000 worth of tools

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3rd Prize: $ 500

~ Boony Doon - Gift Certificate for $500 worth of tools

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Remember:

Ganoksin raffle tickets sold out fast!

Purchase a ticket today. It's easy!

Simply point your browser to
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Hanuman
The Ganoksin Project
http://www.ganoksin.com

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and metals in the world. Its 6,500 Orchid members foster sharing,
support community, enhance productivity and encourage studio safety, by
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