"Harrison Jim" Traditional technic making jewelry Native American (Navajo)Jewelry artist 

Its called a checkering file.

@@brianwilleto3094 thank you👍🏼 appreciate it. Do you know what number to order? I’m seeing all different ones online

@@user-jy4bw3zl2k that would be up to you. I have a couple old ones from the late 70's that work perfectly. They are not marked with any sizes. Sorry.

@@brianwilleto3094 ok np at all, thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. Your awesome✌️

A tally he is far too rough handed to be making good quality finished work . If the end result is rough then it is perfectly understandable. Maybe that's his style okay then do be it. But by the way he's hacking into that metal peice with his large flat file up and down rather than carefully even handedly stroking the metal burrs off etc etc as all jewellery craft artists are taught from day one . His tools no doubt will not last too long either. The studio is a right pickle even hazardous . Ok that's his style and he !imes danger lolol.....so be it . I've never in my life aged now 62 , seen any jewellery artisan work so violently and unsteadily. Jewellery is a precision activity part of engineering not a heavy handed activity at all. So...yes it would be more telling and interesting to actually see him start and finish a price of jewellery completely that would seem more credible please. Otherwise he's teaching the uninitiated some very bad habits that are dangerous to say the least.

I don't really think you've made a piece of jewelry in your life. A ring maybe? I make rings....but I don't know, maybe stick to Visual Bus ride tours in the U.K. for your expertise. Lol

You know what....I shouldnt be so judgemental right off the bat. For all I know you might be an experienced jeweler. I would just like to say that I've known quite a few of native American jewelwrs and most that I know are very knowledgeable and aware of their safety and of the techniqirs they are using to do what they do. And a lot of them have been doing it for decades. If you are a man, I'm sure you can sympathize with the therapeutic calm it gives you, as a man, to hammer a piece of metal and forge it into something of beauty.

These are traditional old ways don't be disrespectful it's a different culture than yours