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JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 26

In this episode I talk about Jewelry Polishing

Polishing Concepts,

Polishing Tools I use

And the NEW Jewelry Polishing Video Series available at www.JewelryMonk.com

I also Talk about Safety in the Shop, Protecting your Lungs and Protecting your Eyes!

I Highlight My dear friend in NYC, Stephanie Maslow Blackman

Her company is www.Metalicious.com

Her Mission is to raise $30,000 for City Harvest in NYC  www.30kforcityharvest.com

I talk about a Cool Tool of the week, a Deburring Tool, and a video about it at https://youtu.be/fGh-SD9oRxI

And also just have a good ol' time.

Doug

JewelryMonk Podcast

Tips, Tools, Cudos:

I Just opened the JewelryMonk Studio and Training Center, BUT

I haven’t forgotten those of you who are not so close to SD, and that is why I Just re-released a Comprehensive video series, where, I have taken my years of jewelry experience, and simply and thoroughly developed a step by step video tutorial that covers the whole process of fabricating and soldering a piece of jewelry from the drawing, to final polishing.   It is called The Fabricated Pendant Project and I walk you through , In Video Form, every step from sketch to finished design.

The Program has 19 videos that covers this process, as well as over 25 bonus videos along with it, literally hours and hours of content.

Every podcast, I like to find people or companies that are doing it “right”, seeing past their situation and giving to something larger than themselves.

Alex Fitz Fine Jewelry, out of Denver Co.

AlexFitz.com

Tip of the WEEK:

Plastic Coated Paper Clips, With Video

Cool Tool of the Week: 

Wooden Bench Pin Modification Explanation and Video

I really enjoy sharing entertaining, encouraging, and educational content to anyone that is willing to listen, and has the heart of a learner.

If you enjoy that as well, and enjoy what I am trying to create here, Leave me a comment or review somewhere…… anywhere you find JewelryMonk.

But probably the most important thing you can do…… go to JewelryMonk.com and subscribe to the website, then you will be notified whenever I put out a new podcast, or better yet, a new video or tutorial on the website.

As always…… tell a friend about the JewelryMonk podcast and website. It would be soooo appreciated.

That’s it!         Until next time, This is Doug Napier, with the JewelryMonk Podcast.

Now……Let’s Get Ready to Make the BEST Jewelry of your Life!

Doug

The JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 24

Introducing the JewelryMonk Studio and Training Center in Rapid City, SD.  717 Main St.  605 718-5070

Featuring: 

The Tailored Faith Company is a local Black Hills Company that just launched a new website. Inspirational Designs and Giving Back

Check Jasmine’s journey out at www.Tailoredfaithco.com

Also Featuring:

The Will-Hold Adjustable Soldering Aide

It is an adjustable soldering pick on a magnetic ball. You put it where you need it, and it stays every time. You can adjust the tension with the push of a finger, and it stays put! The tip is tungsten as well, so solder won’t stick to it. He is backed up a little with production, but if you go to his website, you can get on the next pre-order list, which is just a week or two out.

www.WilliamCobbJewelry.com

Jewelry Making Tips as well as Encouragement!

Doug

Now……Let’s Get Ready to Make the BEST Jewelry of your Life!

The JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 23

Announcing the Fabricated Pendant Video Series: A Comprehensive Video Training Series that walks you through taking a piece of jewelry from sketch through all the processes to a finished piece of reproducible jewelry.

Highlighting: Someone who is "Doing It Right" http://TheGivingKeys.com  A company that focuses on "Paying it Forward".

A Jewelry Tip on Soldering, and how to prevent Firescale.

A Jewelry Tool: A Jeweler's Square, which can be found at: https://www.etsy.com/listing/560223018/jewelry-makers-square-in-stainless-steel

And a lot more "Fun Stuff"

http://jewelrymonk.com/

Now, Go Make Something Shiny!

Doug

JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 022

JewelryMonk.com for All Things JewelryMonk

Highlighting:

JewelryMonk Studio and Training Center

Blood:Water Mission

Jewelry Tip: Non-Dominant Hand Soldering

Health Tip: Back, Neck and Stress

Cool Tool of the Week: Jeweler’s Square

JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 21

Featured Artist: Jewelers For Children

Tip of the Week:  Cleaning Files

Tool of the Week: Pin Vises and a CAD Conversion Worksheet.

www.JewelryMonk.com

JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 20

JewelryMonk Design Contest Kickoff

In this episode The Kickoff for the JewelryMonk's 2nd Design Contest!

Your Mission…… If you choose to accept it:  

Go to www.JewelryMonk.com and download the PDF with Rules and Stone choices. 

• Design a SILVER design around one of these stone.
• You have until March 31st, 2017, at Midnight to submit your design to Doug@JewelryMonk.com.
• My team and I will select 1 winner and announce it soon thereafter.  The winner will get their design created by myself.  During this process, I will create a video series of the whole process from:  Design – The Layout – Metal Fabrication and Cleanup – Rubber Mold Making - Wax Sizing – Casting the Production Piece – Grinding - Tumbling - Pre-Polishing - Stone Setting - and Final Polishing. The Theme of this video series will be Metal Fabrication and Soldering, using the winning design as an example.

• I will make this video series, Focused on METAL FABRICATION AND SOLDERING available for purchase when it is finished, BUT the winner will receive the series for free.

  BUT WAIT!!!! There’s More! (I have always wanted to say that….. sorry)

  The winner will also receive the finished model, the mold, and the finished piece to own. This design and finished piece is theirs to do with whatever they want, it will be ready to go into production if they so desire.

ALSO, I introduced the A to Z Design to Finished Jewelry Video Course 

http://jewelrymonk-llc.thinkific.com/courses/AtoZ

• The A to Z Design to Finished Jewelry Course is a 10 lesson, 22 video series that takes you through creation a piece of jewelry, from concept and drawing, all the way to the completed piece of reproducible jewelry. The videos cover, in real time, all the processes from transferring your design onto a wax blank, preparing and carving the wax. Casting that wax into silver, and cleaning up the silver into a model that will be molded. Injecting wax into the mold and casting those waxes into silver. Preparing those castings with tumbling media and polishing the castings. Finally, the piece will be set with a pear shaped stone in a prong/bezel setting, and the piece of jewelry will be final polished and cleaned, ready to ship.  (link below)

Featured Artist of this episode is www.BethBobbittDesigns.com

• Hand Crafted Jewelry, Handcrafted for Unique Individuals

Jewelry Tip: has to do with Mineral Oil used with Polishing Compound

• https://youtu.be/4A63xQcAdyg

Cool Tool of the Week is a Degree Gauge:

Plus lots more......

Make sure to go to www.JewelryMonk.com and see all the good stuff.

Now, Let's Make something Shiny, Together.

Doug

JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 19

New Segment: Featured Artist

www.purposejewelry.org

• PURPOSE Jewelry is a social enterprise that provides professional opportunities to young women rescued from sex trafficking.  Something as simple as jewelry making offers young women a fresh start, and the ability to accomplish their dreams.
• Focus of JewelryMonk Industries: 3 E’s of Growth- Educating, Equipping, and Encouraging.
• Jewelry Tip :  I have been doing a bit of wax carving this week, and helping some of the people who purchased the Jewelry Creation Method Course with some of their projects. So I put together a video about how to fix a ring When (not if) you break your wax while wax carving, here is a quick tip on how to repair a ring that is in pieces. YouTube Wax Repair Link
• Cool Tool of the Week:  Have you ever started making a ring project, and were unsure how long to cut the wire or shank, so your piece is just the right size, with no waste?  Today I have put together a quick tutorial on how I make my ring shanks just the right size every time, and have added a FREE Downloadable Spreadsheet for you to have, to print out, and keep by your workbench.

Leave you with a Quote

"All new things lead to our death" Author....Fear

Now, Let's make something shiny..... TOGETHER!

JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 18

Featuring the Release of The Jewelry Creation Method Video Course

• Have YOU ever been Overwhelmed by all the seemingly complicated processes that go into jewelry making? How to tackle all the concepts used in the craft? How do you GET your design or idea from your mind into jewelry…. There’s Wax Carving - Casting – Model and Mold Making….. Soldering - Stone Setting - Polishing – just to name a few……and The list goes on.
• Have you ever wanted to take a design that is in your head and create a piece of jewelry from it, one that is repeatable? How much time could you save if you could reproduce one of your handmade designs, over and over, with the same results every time, without recreating the whole piece from scratch?
• Are you like me and Do you learn better by examples, rather that books or magazines?
• What if someone could show you a Jewelry Creation Method, The Process, The System, ……step by step, …..every detail,    every concept    and talk you through it all along the way….. Would that revolutionize your Jewelry Making Experience? If I could Show you how to make your jewelry ideas a reality? Would it open up new opportunities?
• www.JewelryMonk.com for details

JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 017 Update

What have I been up to:

• Trip to China
• Started a new website DougNapier.com
• CAD 
• JewelryMonk Design Contest, Jillian Logue is Winner
  • Adding Tutorials and Videos
• Video series Coming Soon
• How to - Be still
• Health Tip -- Abundance Project
  • Alter your perception
  • Communicate your thoughts
  • Exercise Regularly
• Jewelry Tip
  • Cotton Balls, Q-Tips, Aspirin Cotton
  • Red Rouge
  • Gray Compound
  • Valve Grinding Compound

• Cool Tool of the Week
• 3D Digital Microscope QX800 HD High Resolution

Subscribe at www.JewelryMonk.com for Updates

016 JewelryMonk Design Contest
The JewelryMonk website is promoting a Jewelry Design Contest
Winner will receive their design made and a video process including:  Design - layout - wax carving - casting - clean up - mold making - wax sizing - casting - tumbling - pre-polish - stone setting - final polishing.
www.JewelryMonk.com/Contest1

015 Jewelry Back Health Soldering Mini Saw Frame

Talking about:

Trying to find that balance between Work - Health – Family life

Evaluating my day,..... not by productivity, but by Soul-care and "Health-care, both physically and mentally.

I have been a little active on Facebook, SnapChat, Pinterest, Twitter,….I have been using them as an opportunity for me to add a little Entertainment, some Character, and Life lessons as well. Some of these platforms let you get a glimpse into my life outside jewelry making, and see me and my “Quirkiness” at times.

Jewelry Soldering Question:

How to avoid the dark solder line that you get after soldering silver? 

Back Health: One quick tip is the 25/5 rule. Work 25 minutes, stretch or exercise 5 minutes.

Deskercize: Upper Back Stretches

Written by Ron Evans

http://www.healthline.com/health/back-pain/deskercize-upper-back

Cool Tool of the Week:

JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 14

Featuring highlights from the book:

Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge

Answering Soldering Questions

Prong Layout and Setting

Inline Ventilation for Bench Fumes

Boaty McBoatface

JewelryMonk Podcast 013
Jewelry and Silicosis,
Saw-blade Stress Relief,
Solder Talk,
Respirator Talk
www.Patreon.com/jewelrymonk

JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 012

Mindset,

Eye Health, 

http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/5-eye-exercises-to-improve-your-vision/

Torch Talk, with a Listener Question

Half-Round/Flat Pliers Tool and Tip of the Week

The JewelryMonk Podcast 011

Goal Setting

Depression

Tumbling Questions

Wax Remelting

Max Wax Pen

www.JewelryMonk.com/bezelsettips

www.patreon.com/jewelrymonk

www.JewelryMonk.com/episode10
Health tips with highlights from the book Essentialism -The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Answering tips on keeping track of time spent on working on a project or pieces, keeping notes about trials and errors and projects and experiments. What kind of notes should I be keeping?
Texturing Talk
Cool Tool of the Week
Music:
Why Can't it be Christmas All Year by Rosie Thomas
Santa's Lost His Mojo by Jeremy Lister
Everything's Changed at Christmas But You by Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors
Joy to the World by Andrew Ripp

JewelryMonk Podcast Episode #9

Subjects covered:

Healthy Posture and "Mindfulness"

Casting Troubleshooting and Porosity

Hand Polishing by Foredom

Cool Tool of the Week, Brass Bristled Brush

Deadly Selfies

JewelryMonk Podcast 008

Business/ Health Tip:    The book "The One Thing"

Questions for the week:    Soldering Help

JewelryMonk Tip of the Week:   Making Loops

As well as some fun stuff...........

Cool Tool of the week:   Silicon Carbide Separating Discs - Fiber Disc

Quote: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”  -George Bernard Shaw

JewelryMonk Podcast 007

Health Tip - Chairs and Bench Adjustments highlighting an article from Bradney Simon (Bench Magazine 2003)

Question of the Week - Patena Sealants and techniques

Tip of the Week - Bezel setting tips

www.JewelryMonk.com/bezelsettips

Chuckle of the Week - "Totes McGoats"

Cool Tool of the Week 

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Health Tip:Carpal Tunnel Exercises

Jewelry Tip: Rotary vs. Vibratory Tumblers comparison

Cool Tool of the Week: German Chasing Hammer

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Jewelry News

Sawing Basic Tips

Health Tips

Business Tips

Cool Tool of the Week

Chuckle of the Week

JewelryMonk Episode 4

JewelryMonk Podcast Episode #4

In todays episode we will cover:

·        JewelryMonk Tip of the Week

Pearl Posts

If you make jewelry long enough, you will eventually make a piece of jewelry with a pearl or a post that will hold a glued stone to it. Here is a quick way to make sure the pearl or the stone you set will be more secure.

For the whole article with pictures, visit www.JewelryMonk.com/pearlpost

·        Health Tip

We looked at some of the pros and cons of using a "stand-up" work station

·        Business Tip

We all have bad days in business, right? And sometimes they’re beyond just bad. We drop a ball, miss a sale, or hurt a colleague. Suddenly, we’re doubting ourselves, doubting our worth, doubting everything.

What can we do when we find ourselves in places like this?

Well here are a few tips from Michael Hyatt's Blog at Michael Hyatt.com  excerpts from Brené Brown’s book,  The Gifts of Imperfection. 

·        Cool Tool Tip

I turned 50 this year and one thing I have gotten used to is wearing "bifocals"....groan. I know, I know.

So here is my "Cool Tool of the week.

Bifocal Safety Glasses SB-9000 PS Clear, +2.00

The best of both worlds, safety and sight!!

I will have a link to these at Amazon on JewelryMonk.com

JewelryMonk.com Episode 003

• Cancer Journey,
• Annealing Tip,  
• Dealing with Negative Comments 

JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 002

JewelryMonk Podcast Introduction Episode 001