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