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Rough_Rock
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- Dec 9, 2010
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Can somone please help me get my head around the different techniques for 'making' jewellery... in layman's terms? I have searched and searched, and I keep coming across all these threads with jewellery terms I don't know, massive paragraphs that make my eyes hurt and so many different names for what seem to be the same thing, and I am now just totally confused.
Some phrases I have come across:
Handmade
CAD
Cast
Machine made
Assembling different compo
Wax molds
Cam casting
????
my head is spinning... in my head I think handmade is where the piece is made without computers and moulds... and cast rings are made my a mould.. is that right? What is CAD? I know it produces a cool pic so you can see what the piece will look like, but how does it work? In my head I imagine this ultra modern machine that like, laser cuts the piece from the picture the computer creates.. I just have no idea!
Please help me. The jeweller I want to use advertises on their website that their jeweller is handmade. When I went in for my appt, they showed me how they can generate a pic (CAD??) so we can see how we are going... I emailed and asked them about whether they are handmade or cast and they told me that they use a combination of both traditional techniques (handmade) with much more modern, perfected techniques (the computer or CAD designs)... so.. is it handmade or not?
Just so confused...
Some phrases I have come across:
Handmade
CAD
Cast
Machine made
Assembling different compo
Wax molds
Cam casting
????
my head is spinning... in my head I think handmade is where the piece is made without computers and moulds... and cast rings are made my a mould.. is that right? What is CAD? I know it produces a cool pic so you can see what the piece will look like, but how does it work? In my head I imagine this ultra modern machine that like, laser cuts the piece from the picture the computer creates.. I just have no idea!
Please help me. The jeweller I want to use advertises on their website that their jeweller is handmade. When I went in for my appt, they showed me how they can generate a pic (CAD??) so we can see how we are going... I emailed and asked them about whether they are handmade or cast and they told me that they use a combination of both traditional techniques (handmade) with much more modern, perfected techniques (the computer or CAD designs)... so.. is it handmade or not?
Just so confused...