How To Saw More Successfully

Know how to go about your sawing tasks so as to ensure yourself the best possible results. From preparing your workpiece to choosing a blade to preparing the saw, these tips help make your sawing tasks efficient and effective, time after time.

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Choose the Right Bur-Life

Often copied but never equaled in either performance or benefits, Bur-Life® is the best available lubricant for jewelry applications. Like a coating of microscopic ball bearings, Bur-Life provides a smoother cut with far less friction and more control.
Other lubricants are repelled by heat and draw away from the cutting edge. Bur-Life is attracted by heat, so the friction and resulting heat produced by saw blades, burs, files and other cutting tools actually draws Bur-Life to the point of contact, resulting in a better finish.
With Bur-Life, your tools work faster, stay sharper and last longer.
Choose from three formulas:
• Original: Stick or bench-mount cartridges
• Paste: Specially formulated for tasks where surfaces require a complete coating
• Liquid: Penetrates to lubricate; for complex or porous surfaces that may be hard to coat.

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How To Give Your Flex Shaft A Long Life

Good maintenance and proper lubrication are the best answers to questions about how to increase the service life of your flex shaft. Regular maintenance of the parts of your flex shaft keeps this versatile, can't-live-without-it tool working effectively and efficiently for years to come.

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How To Maintain Flex Shaft Motor Brushes

Motor brushes typically last through at least 500 hours of operation. Replace brushes when they wear down to 1/4" (from their original 3/4" length). Always replace them in pairs to maintain a balanced delivery of current. If your motor demonstrates a loss of power or torque, check the brushes.

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How To Pick the Right Jewelry Hammer

• Riveting—used for forming metal and for riveting. With one round face and one chiseled face.
• Ball peen—a popular hammer commonly used for shaping and flattening metal and for removing dents. With one round flat face
and one round half-domed face.
• Embossing—also known as repoussé, embossing works the metal from the back to form three-dimensional shapes. With two highdomed round faces.
• Forming—used to move heavy-gauge metal while retaining much of the weight of the original metal. Substantial weight with a slightly
rounded face.
• Raising—for creating a seamless form without thinning the metal. With two rectangular faces.
• Planishing—used for hardening metal and for smoothing the surface of gold, silver, brass, stainless steel and other metals.
• Chasing—a multi-purpose hammer for chasing, chiseling, riveting or peening. With one flat face and one round face.
• Mallet—useful for forming, bending and shaping without scratching or marring surfaces. With soft faces (brass, rawhide, nylon or plastic).

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