granpaw
starting to spend too much on rocks
Rocks...The oldest living things on earth.
Member since October 2007
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Post by granpaw on Dec 12, 2007 12:05:59 GMT -5
Ok Doc..while waiting for the pics to load I was reading your process up above, I followed to some extent (knowing next to nothing about silversmithing) but admiring your work. Thanks for the info... This last one though...If you don't mind an old f*rt asking, what in hail do you mean by "frying out the electricals"?
granpaw
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Post by docone31 on Dec 12, 2007 12:48:53 GMT -5
Granpaw, You are a buckskinner. You know how things really work. The smell of the forge, the taste of wholesome decent food, the feel of skins. Electricals are aliens. They crashed years ago and became individual energies. They travel through the power lines and enter our houses at night. The Electricals found an energy source, our neural energy. They exit through the outlets in our homes and create thought patterns. This produces in us adrenaline surges which energizes our nerves. This creates neural energy that they live on. They created dentists to be able to put tracking chips in our molars so they can follow us around, politics so we cannot stop them from building caverns under our homes so they can torture people. See, they live on us not having peace in or lives. They want us to rely on others completely. They make us live with the disease of MORE!. They are everywhere. You can tell who has a chip installed, they say "and-um". They control our wants and tell us wants are needs. Marriage is negotiable, the mononuclear family is an abstraction, freedom is slavery, slavery is freedom... etc. Since we have already had dental work inflicted on us, and injested flourides, been to Drs., who prescribe chemicals they say we need, only to profit on us and make us helpless and dependant on them. They made laws that if we say no to being a victim of medical social control, we get sent to the looney bin. There was a thread here where we were making tinfoil hats and chewing on 9volt batteries. The tinfoil hats keep the tracking signal from being broadcast, and the 9volt batteries short out the chips in our teeth. They are everywhere.
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stefan
Cave Dweller
Member since January 2005
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Post by stefan on Dec 12, 2007 12:50:16 GMT -5
Nice gift E- can't go wrong with custome Jewlery- Doc- Other than the pop of the cockroaches.... hmmmmm Cockroaches roasting on an open fire. Doc Jewlery nipping at the Silver. It's been said many times many ways Don't buy Jewels off the Bay... Man I crack myself up sometimes! Granpaw.... Don't ask--- you really don't want to know!
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Post by docone31 on Dec 12, 2007 13:16:36 GMT -5
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Post by larrywyland3 on Dec 12, 2007 16:58:32 GMT -5
Great job on both, I like how you held the stones in place. The color in the tourmalines is awesome and the setting really shows them off.
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Post by docone31 on Dec 12, 2007 18:16:35 GMT -5
The settings are called tourmaline settings. To make them, you have to measure the width, saw sheet stock length plus height. Then bend at 90* angles on both ends. Then cut sheet stock to solder to the sides. I cut two at a time. Mostly, I order .032 sheet stock, then roll down to .020 to put a taper into it. I then use an Hart burr to "girdle" the setting. I use the 1.43 Hart burr. From the girdle to the shaft of the burr is the height of the table to girdle on the stone. I cut a valley, or vertex as it is called the height of the girdle/table, to serve as a form guide to make the setting. I use a diamond cut off wheel to taper from the vertex to top of the setting. This makes the top of the setting, both reflective, and conforms to the stone. Basically, I make a massive prong on both ends of the stone. The pavillion rests in the setting to serve as a side stop. In setting a stone, it is like setting an egg. If there is spread out equal pressure, the egg will retain its shape and its contents. Same with a stone. Uneven pressure and the stone will fracture. Diamonds are the worst, same with Tanzanite. Basically the stone is held in an egg holder. Cradled, and supported as well as held down. I make the settings free hand.
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