he essential dapping block includes eight dapping tools with matching block, really all one needs for virtually any job. Cavity sizes are 28, 24, 20, 18, 15, 12, 9 and 6mm with corresponding punches. Block is completely smooth on [ … ] Read More
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Dapping Set 2 punch – Wooden
Economical Dapping Set. See description below Read More
Student Jewellers Hand Tool Set
The essential jewellers hand tools needed for jewellery making are included in this money saving kit. Read More
What Tools Should I Use for Forming and Dapping?
We jewellers are a crafty lot. We produce some pretty amazing jewellery pieces and forming helps us give that wow factor to our jewellery! Mandrels are necessary in every jeweller’s toolbox. There are mandrels for bezels, rings, bracelets and [ … ] Read More
Setting Up Your Metalsmithing Studio
This is a fairly comprehensive list of tools and supplies that you will need to set up your metalsmithing studio. You will need a jeweller’s bench and a soldering bench or fire safe table area, plus space for other [ … ] Read More
Making Spinner Rings
SPINNER RINGS Spinner rings, fidget rings, meditation rings. The Spinner Ring continues to be popular and fun to wear! A modern take on the Tibetan Prayer Wheel, these rings are designed so that the inner ring sits comfortably [ … ] Read More
What Do I Need To Make That? Spinner Rings
SPINNER RINGS Spinner rings, fidget rings, meditation rings. The Spinner Ring continues to be popular and fun to wear! A modern take on the Tibetan Prayer Wheel, these rings are designed so that the inner ring sits comfortably on [ … ] Read More
What Do I Need to Make That? Domed Earrings
DOMED EARRINGS Most fabricated pieces of jewellery start with a basic flat sheet of metal and/or some straight wire. Chasing or dapping the metal creates form and dimensional interest to these flat surfaces. A Dapping Set is a useful [ … ] Read More
These Are A Few Of Our Favourite Things!!
“Pliers and files and hammers and bench blocks, Flush cutters, torches and wood doming blocks, Tumbling ear wires and the joy that it brings, These are a few of my favourite things” ( With apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein! [ … ] Read More
What Do I Need to Make That – Marrakesh and O Designs
It’s amazing how many wonderful jewellery designs one can create just using Wire Jump Rings!! Kathy’s Marrakesh, O Pendants, and O Rings are just some examples. Kathy’s designs using Jump [ … ] Read More
Glossary of Terms
~ A ~ Agate ~ Multi-coloured microscopically crystalline, variegated chalcedony. It may be banded, irregularly clouded or have visible impurities as in moss agate. It is a very common variety of quartz principally found in Brazil Alexandrite ~ A [ … ] Read More