photos of workshops

**MuranoSilver** · 30-04-2010, 03:07 PM

Nick
I'm loving your workbench.....all those tools & cubby holes.
What do you use the thing that looks like a belt sander for?
Nic x

**griffT** · 01-05-2010, 07:15 PM

Thank you Nic, I love all these positive comments.

The belt sander looking thing, is a linisher, a most unjewellery like piece of equipment I know! I have arranged for it to rotate with the top of the belt coming toward me and I work on the bottom edge of the lower roller. It is brilliant for cleaning castings or putting a first stage finish on forged pieces. The flat top means I can get actual flat sides to pieces and by changing to finer belts I can get a pretty good initial finish. The main thing I like is that by holding and moving the piece against the cutting action of the belt it's a sort of sculpting process, I can make fairly immediate decisions about the shape. The main problem is the heat, fries the end of my fingers, getting tougher though.

Hope that's not too boring?

Nick X

**Emerald** · 01-05-2010, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by K-Pryor

Murano Silver, I think that some of the best studios are those (maybe I´m just trying to reassure myself here!) which are complete chaos, but the owner could tell you with their eyes closed where the scissors are..or that HB lead pencil which fell on the ground two weeks ago and still hasn´t been picked up. Its more intimate and personal albeit chaotic that way haha!

lol and you call the other side spam, hes been here a while hasent he!

**MuranoSilver** · 01-05-2010, 09:08 PM

Nick - that's more cunning than a bagfull of stoats

love the nifty idea! I sometimes carve my silver clay with stone burrs great for refining d-band rings
(definately requires a gently touch though). How fast does that belt spin..looks like scary fast to me

Nic xx

**Emerald** · 01-05-2010, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by MuranoSilver

Nick - that's more cunning than a bagfull of stoats

love the nifty idea! I sometimes carve my silver clay with stone burrs great for refining d-band rings
(definately requires a gently touch though). How fast does that belt spin..looks like scary fast to me

Nic xx

well if its anything like my linisher Nic lets just say there wouldent be a lot of PMC to fire afterwards!

**MuranoSilver** · 01-05-2010, 09:52 PM

Lol - If i ever get one of those, I'll stick to sheet then

Nic xx

**Mystic** · 01-05-2010, 10:07 PM

This is where I make my shineys, its in my spare room, so I have a corner there. It's not much, but it does me for now, and as you can see my laptop lives here too

**griffT** · 02-05-2010, 06:20 AM

Hi Nic,

I've never tried grinding stoats or pmc for that matter so I'm really not sure if this process is suitable. There are very fine grit belts and it works well for fine, sterling, britannia, 9ct, copper, brass etc. It's also quite good for reshaping the ends of tools and suchlike. I can see that stone burrs could be very useful, presumably you mount them in a pendant handpiece? I can never get sufficiently good control over that, the rotation of the burr always causes the handpiece to wander where I didn't mean it to go.
To my eyes the belt speed is not too bad at all, it's a bit noisey. It is not like approaching a 6 inch buffing wheel with a length of heavy chain to polish, for instance.

NickX