How to Modify your Bench Pin
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2024
- Some tips and tricks for modifying your jewelry bench pin to make it a better tool for helping you saw and file.
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Really helpful tips for beginner jewelers. Thanks for sharing all these great ideas!
Your video is very helpful! Thank you for explaining each modification so clearly.
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Fascinating. A whole different world.
Thanks for these very usefull tips on your bench pin.
Here is mine:
1 drill a small vertical hole right through your pin on your favorite side.
2 insert (from under) your piece of fine metal wire you're working on
3 as you rotate your wire with your other hand (from under) just polish the protruding tip with, your favorite file, or favorite grit sand paper and get :
a perfectly 360 degree rounded tip! (specially great for earring post)
Alternative B : insert your balled-up wire from above and repeat 1,2,3
GB Canada
Amazing video, thanks a lot for share!
Great tips!! I am looking for a better to grip while sanding!!! Super!
Thanks for your video!
Thanks for sharing.
Great video!
Thanks for sharing these tips on modifying your bench pin, this is how I learned to work on jewelry using notches in a bench pin but modern jewellers that I work with kind of laugh it off... Its so useful though!
Thank you! Glad you liked it.
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Thanks for this very helpful video! Quick question: would a modified larger sized bench pin with a narrower tang have enough support to saw and work on? Or must the width of the tang and bench pin be equal? I have a beginners combo bench pin and anvil set up. The bench pin is a little narrow for me and I'd like to get a slightly wider one but the slot to hold the tang is only a little over 1 1/2".
I hope this makes sense! Thanks in advance!
Hi Yaz - Thanks for watching my video. I've worked on bench pins that are wider than the tang that goes in the holder. They hold up fine. It's nice to have a bigger bench pin to work on . Go for it!
@@SilveraJewelrySchool Great to know! Thanks so much for replying. :)
How do you get the slop out of the bench mate peg ? I swapped and regret it now ! Every up motion file stroke or movement up and it has slop no matter on how you shim or adjust ? I might go back to the proper fixed peg ! thank you !
Hi Oleg -
Usually the two screws (side and bottom) are enough to tighten the bench pin and control any movement. However, some of the bench pin replacements they sell are a little big for the GRS bench pin holder. When I use these and saw them down, I leave them a little thicker and that helps to keep it steady. All the best to you!
like your thumb ring, care to say how that's made?
Thanks! I twisted 2 pairs of two round wires together. Each pair was twisted in opposite directions. Then I forged them square. Made two matching rings and soldered them together.
Don't quite understand why you didn't drill the hole BEFORE you made the "V".
Where you by that bench pin
Hi. The bench pin I’m using in the video is a GRS bench pin kit. We sell it as do other jewelry tool suppliers.
www.silverajewelry.com/store/w/id/1844/c/317/t/grs/n/grs-bench-pin-kit/details.asp
We have more styles of bench pins too www.silverajewelry.com/store/w/c/328/t/bench-pins/browse.asp
Thanks for your question
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