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goldsmith-courses Thomas Proft

basic knowledge of craftmanship to make jewellery in gold, silver, platinum As a goldsmith I have been working in several countries such as Germany, France and South Africa. In all the workshops, ateliers and craft enterprises I could find many highly skilled craftsman. But to my own surprise, I also found a lot of very simple techniques that a beginner could do right away to start with! And by collecting these ideas over 30 years, filtering and refining them I am able to offer you today well over 100 ideas in the: Tutorial No.1

If you really want to "see" how it works I have created more than 25 filmclips about all the basic issues on goldsmithing. You will love it. You can buy all of them for 10,- Euro.

< Filmclip melting
< Filmclip welding
< Filmclip soldering
< Filmclip annealing(to glow)

< Filmclip, three different
   gas blow torches or
   soldering lamps

< Filmclip cutting precious
    metals with plate shears
< Filmclip cutting precious
    metals with a saw
< Filmclip drilling and milling

< Filmclip forging flat
< Filmclip forging a form
< Filmclip forging a structure

< Filmclip bending
    generally
< Filmclip bending thinn wire
< Filmclip bending thick wire

< Filmclip Gold Fine, Silver Fine

< Leaflet welding, soldering
   annealing, melting

< Filmclip testing Platinum by
   glowing
< Filmclip how to make an alloy
    of 18kt Gold

< Filmclip Profiles, sheets,
   tubes
< Filmclip different kindes of
    Solder

< Filmclip testing standard
    fineness of metals
< Filmclip reusing the gold
   of old teeth

< Filmclip Tools
   basic equipement

< Filmclip polishing
   with the polishing steel
< Filmclip how to polish
   a smooth surface

< Filmclip Blacking silver
< Filmclip Pickling
   (to clean after soldering)

< Order Numbers
   of a basic tool-list