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27/10/2026

Protecting Textured Metal When Doming | Jewellery Making Tip

Here’s a simple workshop trick to help preserve a hammered or textured finish when doming metal.

Place a small piece of leatherette between your doming punch and the metal. It acts as a protective cushion, helping prevent the punch from marking or flattening the texture while you form the shape.

A small detail that can make a big difference to your finished jewellery!

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27/10/2026

This is my favourite tweezer modification, it’s an excerpt from my latest tutorial video on YouTube (link in bio)
I like this as it allows me to adjust the cabochon setting on the ring see it from all angles before soldering.
Do you modify your tools?

19/10/2026

It’s just simple no mater how many times you do it we still all dance on the inside when the solder flows with no problems

16/10/2026

From museums to wax carving 🎙️

For the latest episode of Mallet & Mandrel, I sat down with Lizzie Lester to talk about her journey into jewellery making.

Lizzie first came to the School of Jewellery Ireland for evening classes before continuing her training, moving into the jewellery trade and developing her own work inspired by the natural world.

It’s always interesting hearing where making can take people, particularly when their journey starts with simply wanting to learn something new.

The full conversation is now available on YouTube. You’ll find the link in my bio.

A big thank you to Lizzie for joining me!

14/10/2026

Making a hollow silver bead is one thing. Getting it properly round is another.

For this one, I bind the two halves together, solder the seam, then add a temporary post so I can spin the bead in a drill.

With the bead rotating, I can use files and coarse emery to gradually true up the shape and bring it much closer to a clean sphere.

It’s a simple little trick, but it makes shaping the bead much more controlled.

If you’re new here, I teach jewellery making and share the techniques, workshop habits and small problem-solving tricks that make life at the bench a bit easier.

13/10/2026

This is how I wrap an emery stick.

Score the corners first.
It gives you a much cleaner fold.

Wrap the paper tightly around the stick.

Tape the ends to hold everything in place.

Then, when one area is worn out…
peel it back, tear it off…

and expose a fresh surface underneath.

Good to go again.

07/10/2026

Submissions are officially open.

I’ve just shared a little tour of my own workspace, and now I want to see yours.

Not just jewellery benches either.

I’d love to see the places where people make, create, teach, experiment, grow things, solve problems and spend time doing what they care about.

That could be a jeweller, ceramicist, baker, printmaker, woodworker, florist, textile artist, Pilates teacher, horticulturist, blacksmith, illustrator, chef, tattoo artist, maker, teacher or something completely different.

I want to see the real spaces.

The beautifully organised ones.
The improvised ones.
The tiny spare-room setups.
The shared studios.
The sheds.
The classrooms.
The corners of kitchens.
And, hopefully, enough messy benches to prove I’m not the only one.

Show me your overall space, your main work area, a favourite tool, something you’re currently making, a strange little detail, or something in the room that tells us a bit about how you work.

There are also four questions I’d love you to answer on camera, all around making, creativity, workspace, isolation and community.

Send me around 2–3 minutes of vertical footage and I’ll edit the final piece together.

I think one of the nicest things about this could be simply getting a glimpse into places we would otherwise never see.

Who knows what we’ll notice.
Who knows what ideas we might steal from each other.
And who knows what conversations might start because of it.

If you’d like to take part, the submission page is now live via the link in my bio.

Let’s see where people make.

30/09/2026

This is me for sure, I love when I get a great polish on a piece just hate the process sometimes 😂
Anyone else with me?

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19 Anne Street South
Dublin
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Tuesday 10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 5:30pm
Thursday 10am - 5:30pm
Friday 10am - 5:30pm
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