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
Category Archives: Tips and Tricks
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 is Pickle Anyway, and How Do I Use It?
When I say pickle, what is the first thing that springs to mind? Lovely, crunchy dills and onions or a crockpot of simmering sodium bisulfate? If it’s the latter, you are most certainly a jeweller! Even if it’s not [ … ] Read More
How to Prepare and Decontaminate Your Tumbler Barrel
I think it’s safe to say that most of us love our tumblers. They save us countless hours of hand polishing as well as beautifully work-hardening the creations that we have laboured over. I must confess that when I [ … ] Read More
Safety In The Metalsmithing Studio
Ever hear the phrase, ” it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye”? It comes from ancient Rome, where anything was allowed in wrestling except for eye-gouging. Nowadays, parents often say it to their children to discourage [ … ] Read More
Soldering Blocks – Which One Should I Use?
Not sure which soldering block, board, or tri-pod to use for each soldering job? Read on!! It’s true that there are many different blocks, which can get a little confusing, especially when you’re starting out on your jewellery making [ … ] Read More
Which Pliers Should I Use?
Pliers are one of the most used tools on any jeweller’s bench. I have several different pair that I use constantly for a wide variety of techniques. For those of you that find the variety of pliers a little [ … ] Read More
Polish Your Style!
When I first ventured into silversmithing, there were a lot of things I knew nothing about. One of these was polishing. Like many other people, most of my experience with polishing silver had been either polishing my mother’s flatware [ … ] Read More
How to Properly Dispose of Your Spent Pickle
As jewellers, have to keep our metal clean. We depend on our pickle pot, day after day, to clean and remove copper from our newly soldered pieces, uncovering the beauty of our creative visions. We probably don’t think about [ … ] Read More
Sterling Silver Care part 2 of 2
Does your silver jewelry live in your bathroom? Or is it hanging around on some sort of display, or cluttered up in an open dish on a random counter top? Do you then have to go through the effort [ … ] Read More
Sterling Silver Care part 1 of 2
When I visit peoples homes I always love to check out their jewellery collections. Unfortunately a lot of people keep their jewellery in the worst of places, the bathroom. Not only do I not really want to hang [ … ] Read More
Which Torch is Best for my Metalsmithing Studio
Successful soldering, annealing, melting, reticulation, enamelling, along with many other jewellery techniques requiring heat, starts with the right torch for the job. Each torch set up has its pluses and minuses, and particular uses. As jewellers, we become very [ … ] Read More