I'm a hobbyist and I really enjoyed watching your training videos, great tips, also love the fact I'm not the only one that fumbles, which make me more confident with the craft. with gratitude, Peter
As bad as this sounds, I am a little relieved when I see a professional jeweler with little cuts, nicks and burns on their fingers…I’m not the only one!
An extremely detailed and helpful tutorial. I have set one stone in my class, and that with a lot of help from the instructor. Now I might have the courage to try again. Thank you!
Wow. I watched this video with awe. Clearly, the silver and the gemstone are only part of the reason a piece of jewelry like this is expensive. The skill and the time required to make the finished product clearly add to the value. It also makes me wonder how on earth the jewelry of long ago was made, before the invention of such a hot torch.
Thank you so much. I’m good at bezel setting but was unsure of prongs and I have to set a cab archon in prongs for earrings. You answered my questions (even if I didn’t know what they all were) and have made me much more confident that I can be proficient at this as well. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You’re a very good teacher.
Wow thank you for your tutorial very well explained ( your were out of view a bit at times) ....now I feel as though I’ve come up a step in jewelry making and have always wanted to know how prongs were made and set..
Hey, I really appreciate your videos, you teach an incredible amount of information in your videos very efficiently and effectively. I'll be watching many more.
Esto es maravilloso!!! Adoro el proceso … cada piedra y el detalle como trabajas ! Te pido por favor si puedes poner subtítulos al español … 😅se’ poco inglés , francés un poco más !! Gracias ❤!!!!!!
Great work man, finally I found a source for useful knowledge without a catch haha! Usually the teacher directing the lesson will be hard to understand or hear and there will be no captions, or they will have dirty fingers and nails or some unsightly wound that totally distracts from the subject at hand. Anyways I've blathered on enough, I just wanted to give you a genuine thank you for making these videos and sharing them with everyone. Keep up the fine work, Cheers Mate!
LMAO...the dirty fingers and the little callouses I can handle, but the wound is extremely distracting. "Cover that thing up, Man!" Bench work can be dirty business. It's best to cover open wounds....UGH!
That's what I was saying! I do jewelry too, so I know. My fingernails are in good shape, but they are always dirty when I'm working. Callouses are there to help, IMO. If not for callouses...we would get callouses LMAO, right? But I was saying, if you have an open wound, cover it up. To prevent infection. I was not talking about you! I was responding to another comment, who said they get distracted by other YT jewelry makers, not you.
Hi again! May I say the grooved pusher is brilliant! I’ll try that but how do you not get a thin flashing? When I am done filing, polishing etc, I either scratch the stone if soft, and or get flashing. With this amazing idea of the v groove pusher, and moving it into the stone, how do you not get flashing? Maybe it polished away with a corundum like your ruby, but what if a softer stone? I love your teaching. I’m the girl that got all your classes but had back issues and couldn’t complete. 😢
Hello do you work on personal jewellery? I ordered a new setting now my stone keeps falling out and they won’t fix it for me. Is there anyway to make the stem and prongs thicker and sturdier? I’m located in Melbourne
That setting moved around a lot when you were soldering! How many times does it take to get these little details just right? It's these little things that matter the most in the end product. SIGH Practice practice practice...there is always so much to learn and discover, but just never enough time.
Submerge the joint in a little distilled water on a wire stand or tiny drop of polymer clay, just enough to stick in place... like Femo. Shallow water submersion is good enough to keep the priming compound in rimfire ammunition ( .22 lr for example) when making certain other calibers with the live primed cases. This should not explode if you over heat so even better. its in my technical manuals for spot annealing . Use the minimum water you can use. Hope that's a decent enough knowledge trade .
Dear Sir, Namaste filing of the Gemstone edges on sharpening stone gives some grip, it cannot fall out and use ring holding vice the ring fixes in it, makes some secure to the fingers from tools, thanking you,
