Originally Posted by
Joe
Hydraulic presses are terribly tedious!
One spends a long time lining the thing up and then sets-to pumping down the press - between one and five minutes a piece.
I'm a poor excuse for a piercer, but I'd trim out a simple shape of up to 30mm diameter in 5 minutes and need less cleaning up than a pancake die.
With a professional background in metal-working, I do not believe these to be economic solutions for jewellery!
Can someone post the sort of results one gets from these press tools and final, finished result to be sent to clients?
I'm presently building a small-scale casting workshop for my pieces!
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