The Basic Idea
You can create your own line of earrings, pendants and bracelets for an investment of less than $150 in tools.Sell wholesale to boutiques or retail as an art festival vendor.You could recoup that investment by selling 6 pendants, earrings and/or bracelets at $25 each, including materials. If you sold 50 per month at $25 each, you could make $1250.Sound interesting?Pancake DiesI found a supplier with a line of pancake dies (also known as shearing dies), in different shapes and sizes.
Pancake dies allow you to cut out a shape in silver, brass, gold or copper, repeatedly, in seconds. (If you were to draw these shapes on a piece of metal and cut them out using a jeweler’s saw, it would take 10 times longer to duplicate the same shape, by hand, one at a time. Plus, you would have the added cost of buying a jeweler’s saw and blades.)Using a pancake die is a snap.Simply sandwich a piece of copper, brass or silver into the die and apply enough pressure to cut the metal shape out of the die.
A Vise or Hydraulic Press
You can use a standard vise to squeeze the die until the metal shape pops out (total investment – $40 for the vise, and $18 for the pancake die. Plus some strong muscles to apply the pressure.)Or, you can use a 20 ton hydraulic press which makes it much easier, but of course, adds greatly to the investment. You can buy a 20 ton hydraulic press through Rio Grande for about $1800 plus $300 in shipping, or you can buy a more user-friendly 20 ton hydraulic press at PotterUSA for about $700.
Using Pancake Dies with a
Standard Vise
If you don’t have the cash to buy a hydraulic press, here are some photos to show how to use the pancake dies with a standard vise.First, insert the metal in the die shape, then position the die sandwich in the jaws of a heavy duty vise.Tighten the jaws of the vise until you hear a snapping sound.Loosen the jaws of the vise and remove the die.The result is a positive and negative shape from the die.
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