Small Metals & Jewelry
Copper, brass, bronze, silver, and gold. You may be familiar with wearable jewelry pieces, but that’s just the beginning.
About Small Metals
Small metals is a large category! Working in gold, silver, copper, brass, or bronze, we go through several jewelry pieces as we show how you make bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and the like. It doesn’t end there, as small metals also covers techniques like etching in acids, soldering, enameling, melting metal to cast molds, and making chain links for anything from a single bracelet or a full suit of chain mail.
Our Tools
The Jewelry Benches
Meco Midget torches
Flex shaft with set with drilling, grinding, and polishing attachments
4 piece silversmith hammer set and also: nylon, forming, smithing, deadblow, cross pein, and texturing hammers
Bench block (jewelers anvil)
Vise with soft jaws
Flush cutters, pliers, tweezers, squares, dividers, scribes, punches, rulers
Round and oval bracelet mandrels, hoop mandrels, ring mandrels
Jeweler saw, bench pin, variety of blade sizes
Hand files, needle files, lots of files
Optivisor
Soldering kit which includes:
Rotating work surface with refractory backing
Charcoal solder blocks
Self pickling flux
Titanium solder pick
Hard and soft solders
“Third hand” clamping tool
Studio Tools
Large array of symbol and letter stamps
Several dapping (doming) sets
Large number of texturing and shaping tools
Torch area with firebrick, water, and pickling pots for annealing and cleaning
Rio Grande polishing and buffing cabinet
Durston rolling mill
Stomp shear
A lot of miscellany: dowels for rings, cleaning and polishing tools and chemicals, many more striking and struck tools, etc
Casting Equipment
3”x4-5/8” mold flasks
Petrobond casting sand
Tools for shaping the sand and channeling airways for casting
Crucibles for copper, brass, silver, and gold
