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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. |
