Tool Talk
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Tool Talk! Foot Pedals for Your Flex Shaft
This week on Tool Talk, my most favorite tool – the Lucas Foot Pedal. Watch me compare the action on this foot pedal compared to the foot pedal that comes standard with most flex shafts. If you plan to do a lot of stone setting, or wax carving and lathing, this foot pedal has more…
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Tool Talk – How to Use Compressed Charcoal to Solder Jewelry
A video about charcoal? When it’s compressed or long-life charcoal, then yes, a whole video about my precious compressed charcoal. I would marry compressed charcoal if I could. And you might too once you watch all the ways it is awesome – reduced oxidizing? Use it as a jig to hold prongs while soldering? Carve…
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What is “Tool Talk”?
Welcome to my series Tool Talk – where I help you parse out which jewelry-making tools are right for you.
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How do I read Analog or Vernier Calipers – Tool Talk!
This video shows you how to read analog or Vernier calipers – an essential jewelry tool great for measuring diamonds and gemstones, wire or sheet, or measuring the length of a ring blank.
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Teaching Old Tools New Tricks – Taking the rust off of your tools
We have a saying in the jewelry business – you can never have too many tools! OK, so that’s not an official saying, but it should be. When a friend recently gifted me a bunch of their old jewelers’ tools – some of them doubles of tools I already had – I didn’t think twice;…
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Top Two Tips for Fixing Your Flex Shaft
Has your flex shaft ever seemed to run too hot? Or has it started making a weird grinding noise? Wait a minute, when was even the last time that you paused to do any maintenance on it? Most flex shaft motors are made to run for years and years with minimal intervention, but they do…