Silversmithing Rings and Bracelets Tool Kit

Hi, it's Dave Smith here again. I'm here to show you our rings and bracelets toolkit. As soon as I get this puppy with all Lola tools unwrapped, I'll set 'em out here and show you again. Here they are, all of 'em laid out. We shipped this package free using flat rate boxes in the United States and territories, including Alaska and Hawaii. Let's get the big ones out of the way. First here. This is a 16 inch oval bracelet mandrel. I think it probably weighs about four pounds. I didn't check it, but that's the mandrel that we include with it. Very popular for making cuffs and on bracelets You can hear how it hit the floor. This is a swivel by swivel jaw vice. It is designed with a top here that swivels around and allows you to tighten this vice up in various positions. It clamps onto your bench. It has a rubber jaw. I like it for sawing rings. I'll put them in here and when I'm sawing the double band in half, it comes in real handy. A lot of times when you're using the bench pen for sawing things, you end up with a situation where your saw goes all different directions and you end up with a cut that goes all different directions. If you can stay in, in a double band ring, uh, in a, in a sawing manner, similar to this, a lot of times you can use just any old blade and keep it moving pretty good and not damage anything. Of course you don't want to tighten 'em too tight. You gotta be careful with this. If you start loosening it and you loose it too far, there is a washer in here that will come loose and it will roll underneath the refrigerator or anywhere else you want and that vice won't work well without that washer. It's a cup washer designed to attach that ball. Anyway, that's a nice, nice vice that we use. Alright, I think I can get a little closer in here. This is a German style jeweler saw. What's really nice about it is a couple of things, actually a few. Number one, this frame is really nice and straight and the line width itself so it makes cutting a lot easier. A lot of the cheaper ones are all bent over one way or another. It has really nice machined clamps for clamping your blade in right here. It has a stop so that it doesn't come apart when you move the saw out to put your blades in. And best of all, what I like the most about it is it has an adjustable end over here to keep tightening your blade as it stretches and gets looser in your, in your tool. 'cause you gotta keep that thing pinging. If you don't, it's gonna break the blades on you real bad. It also comes with 144 blades. 12 of 12 of 12. Sure it does. Let's get 'em back in the box. Don't you just wanna reach to the camera sometimes and tell people what to do. This is a nine face texturing hammer. It has nine different heads that bolt on. There's a few of these out there in the world and some of 'em are really, really cheap. Ones like this typically are a little bit higher quality. With these nine faces you can do a lot of things. This particular face that I'm tightening on here right now, I have over six patterns that I teach in my classes that that particular head can make. So when you get this at home, you're gonna want to take it, put a piece of paper or something behind that head so that when you're hammering it doesn't come loose. It gets some, get some compression on it to keep some pressure on it. This is called a wrap and tap pliers. I call it a ring wrapping pliers because you wrap around here with metal, with your wideband rings, one of the things that you get is a nice flat even wrapped so that the ends meet really nicely together. Whereas when you're using a tapered mandrel and you push things around that, your ring ends up being tapered on the inside and then you have to tweak it to get 'em to to come together, right? If you're using a wide band and you try to do it on the ring mandrel, most of the time you end up with a really nasty looking joint. I call 'em ring flyers. This is a been called a wedding band or a wide band ring ring sizing tool. A lot of folks, fingers are a little bit different size. There's a narrow band ring sizers also like for a single band ring. This is a watch case knife. It is designed for taking the WA backs off of watches so you can place the batteries. But if you'll notice how short this area is right here, it allows me, in a lot of cases, a lot of knives have a longer Edge than that and they're a lot thinner and when you try prying on things with 'em or working with things with 'em, they'll either break or mar the surface. I use this to spread the, I use this to spread the band on rings when I'm making them. If they're getting like a de dual band, this is a curved shear. It's designed for cutting around corners and circles and inside joints. We use that in place of the straight shear of a similar design that comes in our beginning kit for getting closer to things and having less deviation in the back plate. Whenever you cut with a pair of shears, you damage the metal a little bit right where you cut. And when you're cutting with straight shears, it has a tendency to bend it over more than it does with this shear. This is a T handle punch. Some people call it a helicopter punch and what it has is in here it has two different sizes. I believe they're one millimeter and two millimeter so that you can put your metal in this jaw here and screw that screw down to knock a hole in the metal that you have underneath. It's designed for non-ferrous metals mean you shouldn't be using it on steel and Things like aluminum, copper, silver, and up to 20 gauge. You don't wanna be messing with stuff that's thicker than 20 gauge on it because you'll break those ends off of there. Works you really nice for where you're putting the ear wires through. Earrings nine, nine punch for marking your jewelry. You can see it there I believe if you look pretty close, 9, 9, 9. Or if you wanted, you could say it was a 6, 6 6. This is a lead block when you are stamping things that are round and you hit them on a bench block with your hammer where you're hitting with your stamp, it makes a dent on the opposite side. That's really, really nasty because of of the shape of what it is that you're hammering into. This absorbs the shock and it dents in so that you haven't damaged the opposite side of your metal with half round and round objects. This is called a third hand. It is designed to hold things when you can't. So if you wanted to hold a piece of metal onto another piece of metal, you could hold it up with that. It has a pair of cross locked tweezers in it. It's adjustable probably 45, 60 degrees. Um, It's a important tool to have in your tool set no matter what kind of stuff you're making, whether it's rings and bracelets or other things, you always need to be able to hold things without having yourself and have yourself free to do other things. So that my friends is a complete description of the tools that are in the intermediate tool set. We also have available a beginning tool set and, and these tools are available individually@silversmithingclasssupplies.com in groups on sets there also, but also probably where you, you see the link for this video. Thank you for watching.

Transcript provided for accessibility and search indexing.