Recommended Basic Tools and Supplies
Here are some recommended tools and supplies you may need for your studio.
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Basic Soldering Supplies
- Copper tongs - 501017
- Flux
- Flux brush - 115141 or small cheap paint brush with natural bristles
- Pickle - 5010233 - OR sodium bisulfate for pools from hardware store
- Pickle pot - 501021 - OR small crock pot; OR glass jar & plastic lid on a mug warmer
- Solder Easy, medium, and hard, minimum 3" each
- Solder pick, Solder pick (made from 6"-10" of a wire coat hanger with a point on one end)
- Solderite pad 6" x 6" - 505063, 502064, or other fireproof soldering surface (a fire brick or scrap of cement board, i.e. HardieBacker(r) tile board)
- Torch lighter - 114.205 (Otto Frei)
- Bernzomatic Propane Torch - includes built-in lighter (Home Depot)
- Blazer Butane Torch (Amazon)
- Orca EZ Torch - 114.250, for disposable propane tanks (Otto Frei)
- Smith Little Torch - Contact us for our recommendations
- Soft charcoal block
Basic Tools
- 6" half round file
- Beeswax or bur life
- Bench block
- Bench pin
- Bench pin & anvil - 110014
- Bench vise
- Brass sliding gauge - 116075
- Burnishing tool
- Center punch - 118117
- Chain-nose pliers - 111911
- Chasing hammer - 112225
- Cross-lock tweezers - 115051
- Dividers - 116224
- Drill - pendant drill, flex-shaft, hand drill
- Emery board or sapphire nail file (Amazon)
- Flat hand file #2 cut - 114925 (get a handle as well)
- Flat-nose pliers - 111912
- Flat/half round forming pliers - 111180
- Flush wire cutters
- Forming pliers
- Half round hand file #2 - 114931
- Jewelers saw blades 4/0 or 2/0
- Jewelers saw frame -110039
- Joyce Chen shears (Amazon)
- Large craft needles or tapestry needle
- Little paint brush for flux (without metal)
- Loupe (magnifying eyepiece) - 113780
- Magnifiers/Optivisor
- Metal ruler - 116493
- Needle file set
- Nylon mallet - 112013
- Small ball pein hammer - 119333
- Pair chain-nose pliers – 111911
- Pair flat-nose pliers – 111912
- Paste solder
- Patina - Liver of Sulfur gel - 331033
- Pin vise - 113146 & sewing needle (creates a scribe)
- Polishing cloth - 337039
- Ring clamp - 113106 or Ring clamp - 113969
- Ring mandrel - 112575
- Riveting hammer - 112087 (optional, if you have a chasing hammer)
- Round-nose pliers - 111913
- Safety glasses
- Sanding sticks (DIY - popsicle sticks &+ masking tape)
- Sandpaper (800, 600, 400, 220 grits)
- Scribe
- Set 6 needle files (cut #2) - 114797
- Set of small drill bits
- Side cutters - 111931
- Small ball-peen hammer
- Small rawhide mallet
- Small tweezers
- Tweezers (for solder placement) - 115018