Techniques
Explain how to properly file a piece of metal?
Holding the file perpendicular, file your metal downward--only file downward, not upward
Name the product used on polishing machine that creates a shine on your jewelry.
What is Zam
Used to prevent your saw blade from breaking
What is bur life
the different levels of roughness on sandpaper
what is grit
What is the extra piece of metal that once bent over is used to hang your jewelry?
What is a bale
How do you know your saw blade is inserted properly? (3 things)
1. the blade is not flimsy
2. when plucked it makes a high ping noise
3. Blade is facing downward
The surface you use to rivet or create texture.
Steel bench block
Metal specially used in a design to cradle the center stone
What is a prong
What are the steps required before using the polishing machine:*(3 steps)
1 . Wear safety glasses
2. tie hair back
3. apply zam to polishing wheel
What should you do immediately after using a hand/needle file?
Clean the file with a wire brush
Explain the proper way to saw:(3 steps)
1. Sit up straight
2. feet flat on the ground
3. Saw stays perpendicular to desk so your saw blade does not break
A metals thickness:
What is the Gauge of metal.
Give an example of hot connection and cold connection:
what is:
An example of cold connection is a rivet
An example of hot connection is soldering metal together
bend your metal over this to form your spinner ring
Ring Mandrell
What metal works best for patina to show up?
What is copper metal
What are the steps to making a jump ring? (4 steps)
1. stick wire through hole on the dowel
2. neatly wrap wire around the dowel
3. Holding the dowel parallel with the saw saw apart your jump rings
4. file both ends
When riveting, you stick your wire through both pieces of your metal but see the wire is still too long. Which tool do you need to shorten the wire?
Flush cutters
Name 3 ways you know your rivet is successful.
What is:
1. equal metal on both sides
2. an even circle shape
3. two metals are tightly together with no wiggle room.
the ballpeen hammer
If your wire is too big for the drilled hole in your metal for your rivet, what is a solution?
Use the round needle file to make the hole larger, until the wire fits.
Give an example of when you would each of the 3 pliers. Need to say the name of each plier correctly to receive all points.
Round nose is used to shape wire or metal.
Flat nose is to grip flat wire or metal to manipulate their shape. Bending your prongs.
Chain nose is used for opening jump rings. The tapered end of the plier allows you to get into smaller spaces.
Name the 3 ways that the central workstation is used for:
The Bench pin is the central workstation used for
1. sawing
2.filing
3. sanding
When metal becomes difficult to shape or work with
Work-hardened
We have two different machines which are both used to make holes in our projects. Name them both.
Drill Press and Flex Shaft.
The main reason why sketching and planning your project before hand helped the outcome of your project:
When you plan out the project, you know how your jewelry would be hung, worn, and where findings would be placed before metal is cut out. This avoids the possibility of having no where to attach your necklace or jump rings too so that it could be worn.