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Highly Trained Alloys
Highly Trained Alloys By Daniel Ballard In jewelry manufacturing, we depend on highly trained and skilled workers. Sales, marketing, through accounting and.arguably more than anywhere else in the shop. Some of the most profitable changes come right from production....
Dangling a Karat
For AJM Magazine- August 1999 Karating your own gold offers an alternative to stocking large volumes of gold casting grain, saving you money. By Daniel Ballard Los Angeles is a rough and tumble market. Labor charges in finished 14k gold jewelry can be less than $1 per...
Understanding Plumb vs Repair Gold Solders
Long ago metallurgy and elements available to our industry could not match what we have today. But the legacy or expectations of those days remains. These days we use metals far less dangerous than cadmium and mercury in goldsmithing and gold recovery. Indium...
White Gold Solders
With all due respect to laser welding, some jobs just go easier with solder. We manufacture the solders we sell. Right in house. Cadmium has never been an ingredient. We use far more advanced patented metallurgy to create plumb solders that flow in more available...
CAD Materials Keep Changing
Here on Hill street in Los Angeles,it's the heart of the Jewelry Mfg District. We see it all. Something is making the casters very unhappy these days. Some of the newest materials are just killing the investment as they burn out. That puts ordinary investments at a...
The Kraftwerks Invitational – The Pursuit of Purple Gold Jewelry
Hello everyone, sorry it has been a while since I could post. I'm happy to announce we set up a whole new channel for the reborn Kraftwerks Invitational. Precious Metals West has put that on for a very long time, albeit with a recession pause. The debut feature of...