The Video Bank

Andrew has had so many requests requesting information on starting up your own workshop so Andrew has decided to go Back 2 Basics.

So, you want to be a jewellery designer/craftsperson or simply make jewellery for fun? The grab yourself some type of sketch book. It doesn’t matter what it looks like, it could even be a folder filled with loose pieces of paper and pages ripped out of catalogues and magazine. Look around you and start to train your eye to look for shapes, colours, styles and designs that you can incorporate into your designs. Andrew talks you through the essentials of your sketch book.

Andrew has had so many requests requesting information on starting up your own workshop so Andrew has decided to go Back 2 Basics.

The tool catalogues are full of tempting tools and equipment. Do I want them all? ….Yes. Do I need them all? …. No!
Jewellery making tools are a necessary expense even for a beginner. So buy the best you can. These two films will help you decide on what to buy, the basics but necessary tools explained.

Andrew has had so many requests requesting information on starting up your own workshop so Andrew has decided to go Back 2 Basics.

So now we have decided on the type of bench we would like, its time to make it fit us. Yes, thats right. We don’t adjust a chair for us to sit at the bench comfortably. We work the other way round. First we get a chair and not any old chair. Then we adjust the chair to fit us then we make the bench fit the chair and us. One size fits all certainly does not apply to jewellers benches. Watch as Andrew shows you the correct way to be able to spend time at your bench without any aches and pains.

Andrew has had so many requests requesting information on starting up your own workshop so Andrew has decided to go Back 2 Basics.

Andrew is starting right back at the beginning, talking about benches in this first video. If you are thinking about taking your hobby a bit more serious or want to progress your jewellery making up to the next level, you need to start with the fundimentals. Benches may be boring but they are an important choice depending on where you are going to locate your first workshop space.

Part Two

Jeweller’s and Goldsmiths often need to reduce the diameter of platinum, gold or silver wire to suit a particular project.

There is no better tool that will do the job as efficiently as a drawplate. Drawplates allow you to reduce your existing wire wauge without having to stock a wide variety of diameters.

Each drawplate has holes that decrease in size by small amounts that making wire drawing easy. Andrew shows you three ways to draw down wire.

Part One

Jeweller’s and Goldsmiths often need to reduce the diameter of platinum, gold or silver wire to suit a particular project.

There is no better tool that will do the job as efficiently as a drawplate. Drawplates allow you to reduce your existing wire wauge without having to stock a wide variety of diameters.

Each drawplate has holes that decrease in size by small amounts that making wire drawing easy. Andrew shows you three ways to draw down wire.