Argentium Silver: Hear the Story Direct from Inventor Peter Johns
Dig into the history of Argentium Silver by listening to this fascinating podcast from Middlesex University in England where inventor Peter Johns taught, researched and worked with metal alloys. Get...
View ArticleSaul Bell Design Award Winners, Aleksandr Maryaskin and Sue Aygarn-Kowalski:...
Go behind the scenes and hear the stories of two more of the 2014 Saul Bell Design Award winners. Aleksandr Maryaskin and Sue Aygarn-Kowalski took top honors in the Hollowware/Art Objects category and...
View ArticlePMC® Flex™: Design at Your Own Pace
PMC® Flex™, the latest innovation in metal clay from Mitsubishi Materials, gives you the luxury of time. Take your time as you work, roll, cut, shape this fine silver metal clay. The clay feels and...
View ArticleKnowledge is Power: Santa Fe Symposium is All About Learning and Registration...
May is all about the Santa Fe Symposium, the premier conference on jewelry manufacturing technology. In May, 2015—May 17–20, to be precise—the brightest and most inquiring minds in the jewelry industry...
View ArticleHave You Seen the RazzaWeld® Hand-Held Fusion Welder? (Spoiler Alert: You’re...
Imagine welding posts to dozens of your earring designs in mere minutes. Imagine making instant repairs to tie-tacs, post earrings, scatter pins, and more in seconds. Your production efficiency—and...
View ArticlePlate Brilliantly with Ultrabright Rhodium Solution from MIDAS®
Until now, jewelers sometimes found working with rhodium plating solutions to be challenging because of the fairly precise settings needed to ensure a crisp, bright-white, professional result. But,...
View ArticleHow to Choose the Right Jewelry-Making Kiln
Once you’re armed with some know-how about choosing a jewelry-making kiln, making a good buying decision becomes so much easier, and you can be far more confident in your decision. In this post, we...
View ArticleFirebrick Kiln or Fiber Kiln? Discover the Difference
You’ve seen both kinds out there, no doubt. Kilns with firebrick interiors and kilns with ceramic fiber interiors--which is better for your metal clay work? Find out the differences between them and...
View ArticleFiring a Kiln Is Very Expensive! True or False?
“Firing is very expensive!” We hear this pretty often. Hmm . . . is it true or false? In this post, find out the truth, and find out how to figure out for yourself how much any given firing program...
View Article“Man, That’s a Hydraulic Hammer!” Bonny Doon’s Urethane Forming Hammers
When Phil Poirier, of Bonny Doon Engineering, showed his new urethane hammer to Eddie Bell, vice president of manufacturing at Rio Grande, Eddie was immediately excited by its possibilities for...
View ArticleRio Shines at NMJA’s All That Glitters Event
Rio Grande, based in Albuquerque, NM, is a proud sponsor each year of the New Mexico Jewelers Association "All That Glitters" design competition, held annually at the New Mexico Museum of Natural...
View ArticleWhy Can’t I Find Pink Gold Solder at Rio?
Rio Grande recently began offering a wider variety of rose gold and gold-filled findings and has added a line of pink gold and gold-filled sheet and wire. At the same time, though, Rio is not offering...
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