Tools again

[Patstone]

This question is for the more experienced jeweller, have you ever seen one of these.

http://www.professionaljeweler.com/pjicons/archives/feb02/0202pb02.jpg

Sorry I cant make it into a pic, computer skills - zero.

[ps_bond]

Yes. Otto Frei and Karl Fischer sell them iirc.

[Dennis]

That's fine if you want to make a complex wire setting. The alternative is this below, which just requires one home made punch:
http://etsymetal.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/how-to-make-simple-wire-claw-prong.html Dennis.

[Patstone]

Already made one of those Dennis, a 6" nail with a cross sawn in the top. Just thought it may give me a few more strings to my bow. Don't know what it's called though.

[Maree Hart]

Cousins simply calls it a stone setting claw making tool :

https://www.cousinsuk.com/product/bezel-setting-claw-making

Have never tried one but I'm very tempted to start with Dennis's tutorial above.

[Dennis]

As it's you Pat, I looked it up in Fischer's printed catalogue. They call them setting tools and you can get them by post within a week. They come in two sizes, each with a choice of the nuimber of claws. Instructions included on the page.

However if Cousins have them too, you can compare prices.

https://www.goldschmiedebedarf.de/product_info.php?products_id=7296
https://www.goldschmiedebedarf.de/product_info.php?products_id=7297 Dennis.

[Nick martin]

I bought mine from Sutton Tools ( Betts Metals ) and its a useful bit of kit if not a bit fiddly sometimes.

Nick

[Aurarius]

I wasn't familiar with the Bergeon one until now.

It seems to have at least one design advantage over the Cousins one in that it does away with the large masses of steel that voraciously suck heat away when all you're trying to do is solder a few bits of wire together at one end. I've got one of the Cousins ones (it wasn't bought from them), but I've adapted it to minimise the amount of metal you have to heat each time you solder.

[Patstone]

Lot of difference in price. Cousins is £14ish and the others are £60 +. I am not sure if I would ever use one, but........................, well its tools innit, and I might use it.

[Unhindered]

Do you know what its called at suttons? Im looking for one now :)

[Dennis]

I dont think Suttons have it, but in the UK it is generally the heavier one in the wooden box and is called a collet making tool, or claw making tool.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Jewellers+collet+making+tool&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=xbXfV__1K8Hv8AeqjKn4CQ

Dennis.

[Unhindered]

Thank you, I managed to get one from walsh :) just had their catalogue through it was easier to find in there than the website!

[Aurarius]

Thank you, I managed to get one from walsh :) just had their catalogue through it was easier to find in there than the website!

Their website is terrible to navigate. The staff acknowledge this.