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[Ganoksin] [Issue #151] 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Blue Spinel Turns Heads With New Top-grade Material on The Market 2. Red Labrodite? - What Is It? 3. Fabricating a Platinum Sphere Pendant with a Laser 4. Book Review - Making the Most of Your Flex-shaft 5. Behind the Design - Lisa Jenks New Orchid Gallery Pages: 6. Arthur Hash 7. Betty Belmonte 8. Catherine Ondrey 9. Christen Douglass 10. David Nobbe 11. Ed Retherford 12. Heather M. Skowood 13. Joanna Gollberg 14. Kimberly Starbard 15. Lisa Bialac-Jehle 16. Sarah Pezdek-Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Blue Spinel Turns Heads With New Top-grade Material on The Market By Diana Jarrett Well worth a fresh inspection under the loupe is some fine blue spinel currently on the market. An ancient group of related minerals, spinel likely owes its name to the Old Latin sintill -- from which the word scintillation was derived. And a good descriptive name it is. If you haven't considered blue spinel for a fine jewelry piece, remember that its density assures a high polish when faceted. Rating an 8 on the Mohs scale, this gem doesn't need to be coddled in protective mountings, either.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/blue-spinel.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Red Labrodite? - What Is It? By Diana Jarrett Orange and red stones of every kind stood out at this year's sensory-overloaded Tucson gem and mineral shows, but one major puzzle for gem lovers was an orange-red feldspar with an identity crisis. At one exhibit, the dealer called the stone andesine from the Congo. His finest specimens were comparable in price to the best-quality tanzanite. Other companies also sold the stone as andesine, "Congo sunstone," "red labradorite," or occasionally the more factual "red feldspar." And just to make things a little more confusing, the same material is also found in green. The prices were literally all over the map. A Tucson vendor confessed that he and his colleagues snoop out their competitors' prices. Within three days, they adjusted their pricing to be more competitive with each other. What is red labradorite? Is it the same as andesine? Where does sunstone fit in?... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/red-labrodite.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Fabricating a Platinum Sphere Pendant with a Laser By Jurgen J. Maerz It's becoming common practice to do more and more platinum fabrication with a laser welder. For this project, you need about a foot of 0.25 mm hard platinum wire. You can purchase hard wire from a metal supplier, or draw it down from a larger size without annealing to achieve the hardness required. You also need a wooden bead (the diameter of which is up to you), superglue, and a laser welder.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nena...re-pendant.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Book Review - Making the Most of Your Flex-shaft By Alan Revere A welcome addition to the literature now coming out for bench jewelers, Making the Most of Your Flex-shaft by Karen Christians is an informative compilation of material for anyone who takes tools seriously. Everyone with a flex-shaft understands what a valuable tool this is. Here is a chance to learn more about it in order to maximize its effectiveness, efficiency and longevity, whether you are a beginner or advanced flex-shaft user.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/flex-shaft-r1.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Behind the Design - Lisa Jenks By John Shanahan Eighteen months ago, New York City-based designer Lisa Jenks began a partnership with Origins, the well-known skin care products store. As the venture has progressed, she's created everything from compacts to pomanders for potpourri to votive candle holders, all in her signature style -- and expanded the reach of her business at the same time.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/lisa-jenks.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Orchid Gallery Pages: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Arthur Hash The definition of contemporary jewelry is always being stretched to include alternative materials such as cardboard, resins, found materials and animal parts. Today with our technologically driven society, materials seem to coincide with popular culture. This is the dawn of entertainment art. Formal qualities fall by the wayside and the viewer no longer gets lost in the piece. These issues of formal beauty are replaced with everyday pop-culture iconography. With today's low attention span/ instant gratification society, the one-liner piece seems to have more of a foot hold on today's culture and more of an impact on the contemporary art viewer. Color field, pattern repetition and formal materials that seemed to lure viewers in the past have been supplanted with contemporary imagery, social issues and political motives.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/hash.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Betty Belmonte Showing: --bracelet twined in fine silver over sterling with niobium coils --necklace twined in 24K gold over sterling with blue topaz and amythyst beads.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/belmonte.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Catherine Ondrey I strive to take the art of glass one step further by incorporating glass in my jewelry designs utilizing the same techniques I use with stone - by cutting, shaping and setting the glass in metal. Gemstones are often added as a finishing touch. My designs range from classic contemporary to whimsical. Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/catherine-ondrey.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Christen Douglass Christen Douglass, owner of Black Water Siren Studio, is a self-taught jewelry designer working primarily in gem set sterling silver and 14k gold, producing bothcast jewelry andone-of-a-kind pieces. "Jewelry has been a life long passion for me. My earliest memories are of a large box ofmy mother's costume jewelry, whichI would spend hours taking apart and redesigning whenI was a young child.I have been designing jewelry ever since, drawing my inspiration from the ocean and my environment.".... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/douglass.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. David Nobbe My avocation as a goldsmith began in 2003 after retiring to Mexico from the U.S. Many of my designs have roots in Aztec and other Mexican symbols, as well as from the spatial relationships found in the designs of Mexican architects such as Barragan and Legorreta. Much of my work contains fine opals, amber and other stones found in Mexico, as well as other semi-precious and precious stones from around the world. All of my work is fabricated from silver and gold and my most satisfying hours are spent with a saw in my hand.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/nobbe.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. Ed Retherford My name is Ed Retherford, and I am completely self taught in jewelry repair, design, and construction, as well as watch repair, and have been at the bench since I was 12 years old (now 49). My wife and I have a small mom and pop sized store in Kokomo Indiana for the last 20 years. Attached is a single picture with a set of Monopoly tokens that I made for myself. I handcarved all the wax models for each piece, then had Larry Paul Casting cast them all in solid 18k gold for the tokens, and sterling silver for the houses and hotels.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/diamondeddy.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12. Heather M. Skowood Heather's designs are bold geometric forms inspired by contemporary architecture and industrial machinery. The result is jewellery with an expressive and everlasting quality that defies trend for men and women who demand attention. The Fluff Jewellery Collection is inspired by a friend's belly button fluff collection and whimsically interpreted in silver and dyed cotton wool.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/skowood.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13. Joanna Gollberg My work is based on how materials and tools work together to help me design: what the metal can do...how I can fit different shapes together. I am interested in repetitive elements, in movement, and pushing the boundaries of what might be called traditional jewelry, while keeping the work extremely wearable and functional. Basically, I love to make wearable pieces out of metal. It is what pays the bills, but also what makes me happy.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/joanna-gollberg.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. Kimberly Starbard My name is Kim Starbard and I operate as Cove Beads. My work is mainly in off-loom beadweaving Using a needle and thread, I stitch tiny beads together in various shapes and designs. The earrings pictured are made using tiny, gold-plated glass beads woven together in a beaded leaf fringe with quartz drops. The work itself is very tedious and can only be done under a powerful magnifier. Though difficult, it is also very relaxing and almost meditative. I have been beading for about six years and recently have decided to expand my skills and attempt to form what I can learn into an ongoing career. I have begun to teach locally in Guilford, Connecticut and am marketing myself through galleries and art/craft shows in the Northeastern United States..... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/starbard.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15. Lisa Bialac-Jehle Sweeping statements about myself are not my strong suit. As anyone who knows me can tell you, anything else is fair game. I can certainly state that I am driven to make things. I feel that all of the magic goes into the process. Sounds pretty hokey I suppose, but finishing each piece to me, is like finishing a prayer. I lose the connection when the piece is complete. I hope people who see the things I make and are actually moved enough to want to pay to possess them, take the work home and create their own magic.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/bialac.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16. Sarah Pezdek-Smith Artist Sarah Pezdek-Smith is a mixed media artist who resides in Clifton Park, NY. In 2000, she created Rustic Relics Designs focusing on her one-of-a-kind jewelry. Today, the art of Rustic Relics Designs has expanded to include wearable art, fiber, glass, paper and metal art. Through experimentation and education, Sarah has found her niche in her love of mixed media collage art, which can be seen in the majority of her work.... Complete Story: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/pezdek.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- You're all invited to participate & help keep the Orchid Galleries & community spinning! The Orchid Galleries are the visual front of the forum, currently featuring 178 individual artist's pages. http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/gallery.htm Please share your work with your us! Participation is Free!! Submission Guidelines --------------------- Send photos of your work in JPG format to . Please include some information about yourself and your work. ~ Artist: Your name ~ Contact info: E-mail address ~ Descriptions: Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3 ~ Photo Credit: Photographer's name ~ Artist Statement ~ Note: Photos must be at least 200dpi and 500 pixels wide We require high quality photography. While we do not judge your design work, we reserve the right to refuse photos of lesser quality. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- How Can You Help the Ganoksin Project? The Ganoksin Project goal is to build a strong pool of information, freely accessible, for the benefit of the trade and the general public. If you benefited from our services and agree with our mission here's what you can do to be part of our project. 1. Make a small donation http://www.ganoksin.com/donate/ 2. Advertise your business on Ganoksin http://www.ganoksin.com/kosana 3. Tell newsgroup or mailing list about Ganoksin Do you have a newsgroup? Are you a newsgroup member? Do you have a mailing list? Then you can help us. Tell your newsgroup or mailing list about The Ganoksin Project! 4. Invite a friend to join Orchid http://www.ganoksin.com/invite.htm 5. Link to us from your pages http://www.ganoksin.com/resources/about-linking.htm 6. 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Please consider supporting us with your kind donation. http://www.ganoksin.com/donate/ Thank you for being part of The Ganoksin project and for your kind support!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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