Jewelry Tools

Tools and supplies we need for making jewelry.

Things we need

• Fire Bricks
• Loose pumice stone
• Ventilation (!)

Things that would be nice to have but not necessary

• Burnout furnace (full-size)
• Cabbing machine
• Casting machine (full-size)
• Chainmaker shears
• Liver of Sulfur Gel
• Wet/ dry sandpaper
• Some sort of glass or ceramic bin for the used pickle
• Wire of various gages
• Yellow Ochre

Things we could easily make

• Benches
• Draw plate
• Soft jaws
• Vacuum casting table (?!)

Things that we already have

• 20-ton hydraulic press
• Burnout Furnace (small, dental)
• Casting machine (small, dental)
• Diamond saw
• Electric hand engraver
• Foredom Flex-Shafts
• Headband magnifiers
• Lapper
• Ring Gauges
• Rolling mill
• Saw frames
• Urethane pads for hydraulic press
• Vibratory tumbler
• Also...

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Abrasive disks
Binding wire
Buffer
Misc. burrs
Drill bits
Equipment cabinet
Files
Automatic torch lighter, flux, strikers
Ring mandrels, bracelet mandrels, dapping blocks & punches, misc forming tools
Gravers
Hammers, mallets
Letter punches
Pickle, crock pot, copper tongs
Pliers, solder snips, shears, draw tongs
Polishing compounds
Polishing wheels
Ring clamps, burnishers, prong pushers, bezel rollers
Saw blades
Setting and ball burrs
Acetylene tank, regulator, and acetylene/air torch with a few different tips
Solder picks, third hand, tweezers
Solder: easy, medium & hard
Bench pins, vices