1. Forming and Forging
Mrs. Jones’s
Classes

2. Ball Pean Hammer Description:
Wooden handle & double sided metal head.
Flat end is used for: Forging – flattening and stretching the metal.
Round end is used for: Hammer texturing – makes little shiny dots that are small when hit lightly & larger when hit harder.
Located: metal drawer area

3. Anvil Description: Harden steel work surface
Uses: Used for forging metal. Allows the metal to stretch more effectively because it “hits” the metal on both sides at once.
Located: in the tall closet on the first shelf.

4. Rawhide Mallet Description:
Wooden handle & rawhide head.
Uses: This tool is used to work harden metal.
Located: metal drawer area

5. Flat Nose Jeweler’s Pliers Description:
Two flat jaws and metal handles
Uses: makes flat or squared off shapes in wire.
Located: your assigned kit.

6. Round Nose Jeweler’s Pliers Description:
Two round jaws and metal handles
Uses: Makes S curves or rounded shapes in wire
Located: your assigned kit.

7. Chain Nose Jeweler’s Pliers Description:
Two flat jaws that are round on the outside and metal handles
Uses: Makes C shaped curves in wire
Located: your assigned kit.

8. Half Round Jeweler’s Pliers Description:
One square and one round jaw and metal handles
Uses: Makes complex shapes in wire
Located: in the pliers drawer

9. Forming Jeweler’s Pliers Description:
One square and one round jaw and metal handles
Uses: Makes complex shapes in wire
Located: the pliers drawer.

10. Wire Jig Description: A plastic or metal board with pegs.
Uses: makes many copies of complex shapes out of wire.
Located: See Teacher to sign out.

11. Ring Mandrel Description:
Tapered plastic rod
Uses: Makes perfect circles or ring bands (used with a rawhide mallet) and stretches rings to make them larger (use with a ball peen hammer)
Located: in the marked metal drawer cabinet

12. Bracelet Mandrel Description:
large oval rod on a mounting frame
Uses: Used to make bracelet shapes (rawhide mallet)
Located: second shelf of the tall cabinet

13. Dappeling Block/Punch Description:
Harden steel metal block and hardened steel punches
Uses: makes domed metal shapes (use a regular hammer)
Located: in the tall closet on the first shelf

14. Wire Cutters Description:
Cutting jaws and metal handles
Uses: Cuts wire
Located: in your assigned kit.

15. Jeweler’s Saw Description:
C shaped frame and wooden handle
Uses: Cuts shapes out of metal
Located: Hanging in the tall closet – ask teacher for replacement blades

16. V-Board Description:
Wooden board with a V cut out of it and a silver table clamp.
Uses: Extends the work surface to allow precision metal cutting without ruining the table edge.
Located: in the marked metal drawers cabinet

17. Ring Clamp Description:
wooded “scissors” and “doorstop”
Uses: Holds small pieces of metal so they are easier to work on
Located: in the tall closet on the second shelf

18. Flat File Description:
flat blade
Uses: to remove metal in a flat or curved area
Located: in the marked metal drawer cabinet

19. Round File Description:
Description: circular File
Uses: To file Round areas
Located: Marked metal drawer area

20. Half Round Hand File Description:
half round blade
Uses: to remove metal in a flat or curved area
Located: in the marked metal drawer cabinet

21. Jeweler’s Files Tiny files used to remove tiny bits of metal.
Use only when a hand file doesn’t fit!

22. Hand Files
Large files (larger than your hand) used to remove large amounts of metal.
Use these first!

23. Steel Wool Description:
Spun metal pad
Uses: To remove scratches
Located: in marked metal drawer

24. Emery Paper Description:
Black Paper
Uses: To remove scratches
Located: in marked metal drawer