Thank you everyone for the information on my new toy!  I'm not quite sure
how I'll fit this into my rather crude blacksmithing setup. At the moment,
I think a ball punch for the lifting tabs on bottle openers (and with so
much good beer in cans now!) and maybe a narrow cutting tool for incising
lines on hot work.

I just knew this group would come through in record time.

Thank you,

Michael

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 3:39 PM Peter McBride 
wrote:

> Michael,
> These small presses were used by a variety of trades, including paper,
> leather, metal and foil embossing, as well as jewellery.
> I've a few hundred sets of punches and dies for such a tool. Used for
> pressing out all kinds of jewellery components.
> The smaller items would be able to be done on a small press like yours.
> These would include small ring and brooch shoulders that are about 3-4mm
> x 1-2mm in size.
> Here are some images and a video of me making gallery wire using one set
> of about 8 I have.
> Gallery wire is a strip of pieced metal, brought round and soldered to
> form the setting with prongs to set a gemstone.
> Once set up properly, it would go much faster than my attempt here, hehehe.
>
> http://www.petermcbride.com/temp/images1/gallery%20wire/gallery_wire03.jpg
>
> http://www.petermcbride.com/temp/images1/gallery%20wire/gallery_wire02.jpg
>
> http://www.petermcbride.com/temp/images1/gallery%20wire/gallery_wire01.jpg
>
> https://youtu.be/hQ4fNoxOV-g
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
> In Main Ridge, VIC, AUST.
>
> On 13-Nov-19 5:15 AM, Michael Suwczinsky wrote:
> > little blacksmithiing with a local DIY youth camp and it ready, according
> > to his mom, to move up to the industrial arts co op in Oakland.
> >
> > Anyway, dragged the press, I'm assuming its a press, home, chain hoisted
> it
> > up to a convenient height, mostly just to play with a new chain hoist.
> > loosened up the stops and spun it.
> >
> >
>


-- 
Michael