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Sharpening A File With Acid
A quick, simple, and inexpensive method for sharpening a file.
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Make Silver Different Colors by Anodizing
How to Make Silver Different Colors by Electrochemical Anodizing.
Without using paint you can give a silver surface various colors...
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Don’t buy fake silver – easy acid test!!!
Quick and easy Silver test - WARNING: if you are under 18 or unfamiliar at all with these testing methods,...
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Inside Auriou Toolworks – How Files are Made
Produced by Auriou Toolworks, this 10-minute video reveals the fascinating world of traditional rasp-making at Forge De Saint Juery in...
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Armed Robbery Andreas Salver
6 x Armed Perpetrators Rob Manufacturing Jeweler in Coachman's crossing Bryanston
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Filling a Speedwire
I have provided instructions on making your own coiled sterling wire for Glenn Manning's Speedwire, an ingenious device for delivering...
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Sculptures by Noah Deledda
Irony & Aluminum
The hidden beauty of the can's polished aluminum surface is revealed. By hand, I apply dents to...
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Domed smooth tapered cuff bracelet
Domed smooth tapered cuff bracelet
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Infiltrating Colombia’s Shady Emerald Mines
Money and Madness (1998) - Penetrating the shady world of Colombia's emerald dealers, we meet private armies and pistol-packing miners....
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Weaving wire
basic wire weaving
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How to make a round twisted bangle
how to make a round twisted bangle
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The Hidden Afghan Emerald Mines That Could Be Worth Billions
Afghanistan is not only a country in perpetual turmoil, but also a geological miracle. Can they now harness 1,000 billion...
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Hidden Hazards in the Art Studio – Less Toxic Alternatives
Hidden Hazards in the Art Studio - Less Toxic Alternatives
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Simple Steps to Planishing Copper
Steps and tools for simple planishing of copper. Easily remove hammer or mallet marks from a formed copper bowl. The...
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John Martin Douglas Master Goldsmith: Bespoke Gold Ring
The classic engagement ring is a solitaire diamond in gold or platinum, but of course you can have any combination...
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Utsushi – in search of Katsuhira’s tiger. Part 2
A short documentary film that follows classical Japanese metal artist Ford Hallam as he recreates a lost masterpiece by the...
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Utsushi – in search of Katsuhira’s tiger. Part 1
A short documentary film that follows classical Japanese metal artist Ford Hallam as he recreates a lost masterpiece by the...
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Calcutta’s gold scavengers
Early in the morning, as Calcutta's Bowbazar red-light district settles down to sleep, a group of men leave their shanty...
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3 Dimentional tube bending
Cooney marines amazing Tube bender.
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Best of Foldforming Competition
Winners of the inaugural Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition were announced on Aug 6, 2012 at the 5th Annual Charles Lewton-Brain Conference...
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Granulation: Athena’s Treasures Damaskos Workshop
This is the Damaskos Workshop. We're featuring the creation of a ring, but through that showing some of the other...
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Orienting a Moonstone crystal for cutting
locating the moonstone effect and orienting the crystal for optimising the adularescence in Feldspar Moonstone rough in preparation for cutting....
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Making a RIng
From a pile of scrap to a finished product.
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Lost Wax Casting – [9/9] Finishing and Polishing
Lost wax casting, step : Grinding, buffing and polishing the finished charms.
Feathered Gems Jewelry has documented the entire process...
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Lost Wax Casting – [8/9] Cutting the charms off of the sprue
Lost wax casting, step 8: cutting the now clean silver charms off of the sprue trees.
Feathered Gems Jewelry has...
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Lost Wax Casting – [7/9] Cleaning the newly cast charms
Lost wax casting, step : cleaning the freshly cast silver charms.
Feathered Gems Jewelry has documented the entire process of...
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Lost Wax Casting – [6/9] Quenching the hot flasks
Lost wax casting, step : cooling the hot flasks in a bucket of water
Feathered Gems Jewelry has documented the...
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Lost Wax Casting – [5/9] Casting the silver in the heated fl
Lost wax casting, step 5: weighing and melting the sterling silver that is poured into the hot flasks.
Feathered Gems...
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Lost Wax Casting – [4/9] Burning out the flasks
Preparing for lost wax casting, step 4: putting the flasks in a kiln to burn out any remaining wax and...
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Lost Wax Casting – [3/9] Dewaxing the flasks
Preparing for lost wax casting, step 3: steaming out the wax from inside the hardened plaster investment.
Feathered Gems Jewelry...
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Lost Wax Casting – [2/9] Investing the wax-filled flasks
Preparing for lost wax casting, step 2: putting the waxes inside steel flasks and covering them with high temperature plaster...
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Lost Wax Casting – [1/9] Sprueing waxes
Preparing for lost wax casting, step 1: attaching waxes to a central sprue and weighing them.
Feathered Gems Jewelry has...
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How to solder tiny ring components
I was recently asked for some advice on how to solder a very small bezel setting to a thin wire...
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Silver refining
A micro-scale experiment explaining some principles related to the refining process of silver.
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MAISON CHAPLIN – Van Cleef & Arpels – The Process
Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels, the most comprehensive exhibition ever organized of Van Cleef &...
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Steve Shelby’s Metal Art, Interview
Eric Olson from Indiana's News Center interviews Steve Shelby in his workshop about how he makes his metal sculptures.
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Notebook Pendant Project
Hadar's
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Memento Vitae–Life Remembered
When I lost three family members in three years I felt compelled to DO something and these vessels are the...
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The Deep – PES
Short animation: Metal objects of the past come to life in the depths of the sea....
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Jewelry Secret
Promotional Video by CHANEL
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Easy Mounting
how to make a easy mounting
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Safely removing SK Cobalt / BioBlu 27 ring
Scott Kay Inc. has a tool that will successfully remove any SK Cobalt(TM) / BioBlu 27(TM) band from a consumer's...
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Beth Wicker, An Artist Profile
Beth Wicker is a member of the Artisans of the South Carolina Cotton Trail. She currently resides in Cheraw, South...
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DIY Mini Lathe
DIY Mini Lathe
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