The Ganoksin Project S i n c e 1 9 9 6 Jewelry Manufacturing Methods and Techniques
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ganoksin is run by a group of people who believe in and love what they're doing. If you enjoy our efforts, then please feel free to show your support! Purchase the official Orchid Pin
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
In This Edition:
- Elegant Vessels - the work of Michael Boyd 2. Lamination of Non Ferrous Metals by Diffusion 3. Sheet Metal Tool Modification for quick, tight, crimping 4. Tool Modification of Industrial Tube Wringer 5. Metal Corrugation from a Coil 6. Finishing the Inside of a Platinum Ring 7. 3M XR and Scotch-Brite Wheels 8. Hoover & Strong’s Tru-Seat Setting System 9. New Warrior Power Tool System 10. Wax Tools Update
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ganoksin offers Webmasters with Free Website Content!
Integrate the most respected gem and jewelry content in the world into your Website easily and free!
More than 150,000 articles are available in virtually every aspect of The gem and Jewelry trade can be integrated to your website by simply adding a few lines of source code.
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ganoksin's Guide to Industry Web Sites Announced
If you know or maintain a website that you feel should be listed in the Index please share it with us!
Please contact us for more information.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Video has arrived at Ganoksin!
Sometimes, the written word on a process performed in the jewelry trade like metal casting, pales in comparison to the beauty of watching molten metal in action.
Now available for online viewing, Daniel Ballard from PM West, shows viewers the seductive glamour of making grain and casting. Blaine Lewis from New Approach School for Jewelers teaches us how to sharpen a graver and why it is important to keep them sharp. These are just a few of the many offerings you will find at the Video Library!
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
In This Edition of Tips From The Jeweler's Bench
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Elegant Vessels - the work of Michael Boyd
Jewelry artist Michael Boyd fills his cup with newfound forms and shapes. Well known for his contemporary roll-on cuff bracelets of colorful stones and mixed metals, Boyd captured me from the start with his architectural designs. While Boyd remains on the cutting edge of contemporary jewelry design , he has branched out. For the first time, he is introducing to the public his hand-fabricated teapots and vessels made from stone and mixed metals.....
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- The Metalsmith Papers Lamination of Non Ferrous Metals by Diffusion - Adaptations of the Traditional Japanese Technique of Mokume-Gane
We have been interested in Mokume-gane for a number of years. The only information we could find was by the soldering of different metals, cutting in half, resoldering to increase the number of layers and then exposing those laminates by punching from the reverse side and removing those embossments or by carving drilling, etching from the top. These methods have many drawbacks; namely, air pockets, cracking and peeling. Its limitations are basically that it cannot be effectively formed or raised into complex forms. During a recent trip to Japan we visited three craftsmen who practiced Mokume-gane and worked with one of them……
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Sheet Metal Tool Modification for quick, tight, crimping
Sheet Metal Tool Modification, Look for: WISS Hand Seamer (as LAST resort BRAMEC or VISE-GRIP) sheet metal bending tools and modify as shown. Recommended for quick, tight crimping! I prefer the Wiss Hand Seamer Model HS-1 or as a LAST resort you can purchase Vise-Grip Locking Sheet Metal Tool #23 or Bramec sheet metal tool-straight handle....
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Put an Orchid on your Bench
Join the most popular online community for jewelers, The Orchid forums at
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Metal Corrugation - Tool Modification of Industrial Tube Wringer
Following the 2002 SNAG conference Barbara Minor forwarded this tool modification made by Chris Hentz of Chris's Cables – which is a hand saving alteration that you might also want to consider.....
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Metal Corrugation from a Coil
While researching ancient design I have been fascinated with basic shapes from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, ancient Celts, pictographs and petroglyphs. Did you know that zigzag or wave pattern was the earliest symbolic motif recorded? Neanderthals used this symbol around 40,000 B.C. or earlier. This pattern was used with and on anthropomorphic, bird, fish, and phallic images and objects. The symbol was used on Near East Neolithic ceramics and in reference with the M sign mu, meaning water, in Egyptian hieroglyph and the ancient Greek letter. The coil is another early motif incorporated by ear ly man in artistic expression.....
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Finishing the Inside of a Platinum Ring
Jeff Mathews has developed a process for polishing the inside of platinum rings using 3M abrasive technology. To illustrate how he performs the job, I follow his procedures using this hand fabricated flat platinum band. Tool and forming marks are easily visible. The quality and identification marki ng has been completed.....
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 3M XR and Scotch-Brite Wheels
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Hoover & Strong’s Tru-Seat Setting System
Hoover & Strong, Inc. in Richmond, VA provides a line of Tru-Seat settings that include solitaire earrings, pendants and solitaire rings in yellow, white and palladium white gold alloys. By using Tru-Seat mountings and the system outlined below, jewelers can reduce material costs, labor and improve quality.....
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- New Warrior Power Tool System
New patented Warrior Power Tool System kit provides a revolutionary proficiency advantage for bench jewelers and jewelry manufacturers for split-lap abrasive pre-finishing, finishing and polishing....
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Wax Tools Update
Euro Tool, Inc. has developed five wax tool kits and a cordless wax pen for the overall improvement of wax working projects.....
Complete Story:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Put an Orchid on your Bench
Join the most popular online community for jewelers, The Orchid forums at
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Ganoksin Project
-----------------------------------------------------------------------