American School of Jewelry Platinum - training courses for jewelry making, repair, design, jeweler course, schools, jewelers classes, trade, jeweller, jewler,

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This class is designed to educate jewelers, designers and hobbyist who are not familiar with Platinum. Working with Platinum is unquestionably different than working with Gold or Silver. Not knowing how to handle it will translate into personal frustration and loss of time and money. At the end end of the class the student will be able to handle Platinum with confidence.

Special tools and personal protection.
Preventing metal contamination.
Handling of platinum scrap and filings.
Melting. Soldering, brazing and welding.
The platinum group of metals.
Stone safety.
Properties of solders.
Soldering gold to platinum, solders you can and cannot use.
Metal stress relief and sequence of finishing.
Setting stones in platinum, and why it is considered a dead metal.
Finishing techniques.
The marking laws.
Fabricate and size a platinum band with no visible lines in the joints.
Solder a platinum setting. Set stone.