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Tool making riveting easy.
I made a riveting helper.
Very simple, just a 6mm steel rod filed to a point and with a cup indentation made into
it with a 2 mm ball frazer.
Close up.
I also polished the inside.
I’m just holding this with spring tweezers for the photo, but when working I would hold
the jewelry piece with one hand.
With the other hand I use a small ball hammer to peen the end of the rivet over.
The cup keeps the rivet round and also stops anything from slipping and going chiiing!
The steel point just fits into a hole so I can change it out and use other sizes and
shapes for different type of rivets.
Where this method works nicely is with a
titanium pendant
like this, because no heat can be applied and if you slip once and scratch the titanium, you start over.
In this
Titanium Pendant
Square Design the method was used five times on one pendant.
Delicate work on
Titanium Earrings
- many rivets no marring.
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