metal stamping punches
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Metalworking
Metalworking is the craft and practice of working with metals to create structures or machine parts. The term covers a wide range of work-from large ships, bridges and oil refineries to delicate jewellery and instruments. Consequently, this craft covers a wide range of skills and entails the use of many types of tools.
Stamping is a metalworking process by which sheet metal strips are punched using a press tool which is loaded on a machine press or stamping press to form the sheet into a desired shape. This could be a single stage operation where every stroke of the press produce the desired form on the sheet metal part, or could occur through a series of stages.
Punching in metal fabrication is the process of using a machine to press a shape through a sheet of metal and into a die to create that shape in the metal. This is most commonly done by use of a turret, a computer numerical controlled machine that houses tools and their corresponding dies in a revolving indexed turret. These machines use hydraulic, pneumatic, or electrical power to press the shape with enough force to cut the metal.
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36 Piece Letter & Number Punch Set For Stamping Metal 1/16 Inch 1.5mm (1 Set) $15.99 36 Piece Punch Set Numbers & Letters 1.5mm (1/16″) Size For Stamping MetalStamp names, words, birthdays and more with this alphabet and numbers punch set. Personalize pieces made of copper, silver, brass and more! 1.5mm (1/16 Inch) height characters. The set includes:26 Letter punches (A through Z) 9 Number Punches (0-9) – Use the “6″ punch upside down for a “9″.1 “&” Symbol Punch The pieces come… |
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Contemporary Heart Outline Punch For Stamping Metal 1/4 Inch 6mm (1) $7.95 Metal Stamping Punch Contemporary Series Heart Outline Design Customize Any Metal Blank 1 Tool Stamp any flat, soft metal. Use this punch to personalize metal blanks (made from non-ferrous metals such as Sterling Silver, Copper, Vintaj Natural brass and more). 6mm (1/4 Inch) height design. Made of tempered steel for years of service. Use with a metal bench block or anvil and a 16 ounce flat head… |
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36 Piece Letter & Number Punch Set For Stamping Metal Large 1/4 Inch 6mm (1 Set) $24.99 36 Piece Punch Set Numbers & Letters Large 6mm (1/4″) Size For Stamping Metal Stamp names, words, birthdays and more with this alphabet and numbers punch set. Personalize pieces made of copper, silver, brass and more! 6mm (1/4 Inch) height characters. The set includes:26 Letter punches (A through Z) 9 Number Punches (0-9) – Use the “6″ punch upside down for a “9″.1 “&” Symbol Punch The pieces come… |
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Alphabet and Number Metal Stamp Set $39.99 Our 36 piece steel metal alphabet letter & number die stamp tool kit comes in a wooden storage case and is great for personalizing and identifying your stuff in steel, wood, leather etc…. |
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Metal stamping design;: Practical and economical design of stamped metal parts … |
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Application of cold punch process and edge stretch analysis to eliminate failure conditions in forming of sheet steels (SAE) … |
Hallmarking of Silver and Gold Jewellery
Hallmarking of Jewellery
Hallmarking puzzles most people. They don’t know what the symbols stand for or why jewellery has to be hallmarked. When our customers ask about hallmarked silver and we tell them that ours is “pure silver , 999 standard” they look puzzled because most people assume that sterling silver is the “ultimate” standard and can’t understand that there are higher grades of silver than sterling. We usually have to take down our hallmarking poster and give a sermon on hallmarking!
Amazingly , hallmarking has been around since early times. Edward 1 of England passed an act in 1300 establishing sterling silver and making marks on each piece of jewellery with a punch compulsory.
So how can you tell if your jewellery is hallmarked? You’ll probably need a magnifying glass like the ones you’ve seen jewellers with , stuck in their eyes as they closely examine a piece of jewellery. If you can only see a mark saying “925″ then that’s not a hallmark in the UK. It’s just a “control mark” put there by the manufacturers to indicate that they think it’s sterling silver. But to comply with the law there has to be a mark made by the Assay Office. In the UK this will be a mark with 3 symbols : firstly a mark (say 999 ) denoting the type of metal and its quality , secondly the maker’s mark (ours is JC ) and finally the year of marking.
But even if there’s no proper hallmark , don’t worry! Your jewellery could be too light to be hallmarked. Most silver jewellery is very light – earrings , for instance. If silver is less than 7.78 grams it doesn’t have to be hallmarked. Gold less than 1 gram is exempt and with platinum it’s less than half a gram.This is to save costs – hallmarking can be expensive.
So how do jewellers get a hallmark? Well , you buy some silver or gold , make something with it and if the final piece is over 7.78 grams or whatever , you have to send it off to the Assay Office of your choice. In the UK you can choose from London , Birmingham , Sheffield or Edinburgh. They are all independent and actively “tout” for business. We deal with Birmingham but have had reps from other Assay Offices visit us at Trade Shows and try to charm us…
You have to register with an Assay Office and have your own mark and leave your stamp with them. In addition , every time you sell your jewellery , even in a street market , you have to display an Assay Office poster. It’s not unknown for Trading Standards officials to visit exhibitions to check your status and see if you are complying with the act.
The main thing to remember about the hallmark is that the numbers (eg 925 ) are out of a thousand so the higher the number , the better the grade of metal. With sterling silver , this means that 75 parts out of a thousand is not silver – it is copper , which is added to make the pure silver easier to work with by hardening it. Pure silver is quite soft. Most of the silver we work with is 999 – fine pure silver which is quite a different colour to sterling silver because there is nothing added to it.
With gold , much more base material is added. 9 carat gold for instance is hallmarked 375 because it is only 37.5% gold. 18 carat is 75%. as you can imagine pure gold is very expensive and you can see why it has to be diluted!
For examples of gold and silver jewellery visit the Zinnia Jewellery website
www.zinniajewellery.co.uk
About the Author
John Cartman is the co-owner of Zinnia Jewellery and sells gold and silver jewellery at fairs and exhibitions in the UK.
Copyright J.Cartman 2008
www.zinniajewellery.co.uk
