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Goldsmiths Can Cast Easier than Ever
After a quick visit to the Atlanta Jewelry show, I was struck by a significant change. The smaller scale equipment that has come out in concert with the CAD/Custom jewelry trend puts simple casting in reach of smaller shops than ever. Smaller generally means more...
Ride High On Hydrogen
Let's remember when it's smart to keep the equipment simple and affordable. You the designer or jeweler make far more difference than the equipment does. For torch work in casting hydrogen is far and away the best to actually use. Plenty of heat, and as you dial the...
Investing And Flaskless Casting With Docs
This recipe for Docs was written by Gary Dawson of Gary Dawson Designs. Gary is a master jeweler, caster and CAD teacher. Description: Doc’s Casting Plaster was specially formulated by Marc Robinson some time ago as a vast improvement to existing methods for casting...
Electrum-Is The Past in Your Future, Thanks To The FTC?
By now you have probably heard that we (In the USA) can soon make gold for sale at less than ten karat and call it gold. It's a new ruling from the FTC and details are available at the MJSA Journal. As a career long gold alloy specialist, I admit to dismay...
Platinum-The Best Market For Jewelers In Years
The one precious metal that has all the following attributes-As white as it gets. High density for a substantial weighty feel for the customer. Can be fabricated, cast, welded, soldered without oxidation, stamped or hand wrought without changing alloys. Everything is...
Strange Price Reversal-Plumb Platinum Less Costly than Repair Solders!
Thanks to the current state of precious metals market costs we have a very unusual development. The far better solder is less costly. About $75 instead of about $85 for the lesser quality repair solder that is made with gold, palladium etc. Please take advantage!...
De-Mystifying Gold Solders
Precious metals have a reputation for secrecy, mystery and alchemy. Some kinds of gold are easy to understand and use. Some you just use, little to no idea of what went in there. Few jewelers understand solders nearly as well as they use them. But better...
Elemental Alloy Mysteries
Elemental Alloy Mysteries Many of us need a better understanding of just exactly what effect different base metal elements have on gold. Each base metal (really elements, found in the periodic table) that goes into making alloy for karating has its own effects. The...
Torch Song
Torch Song By Daniel Ballard Whether using a Torch or Electricity to melt your precious metal, you need to know the pros and cons of your melting method. Gases used in melting precious metals run the gamut of flammable compounds. Many are derived from the...
Working With Palladium White
Working With Palladium White Gold While nickel based white gold is commonly used and very well understood, palladium based white is gaining interest and sales. Some of us sell to the EU or Japan, and some of us have customers sensitive to or about nickel. Palladium...
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