Liberty Arts

The hydraulic press is a is simple to operate machine. It to speeds up all sorts of jewelry making, like cutting disks, forming metal, creating hollow forms, making quickly repeatable shapes, creating textures and patterns, and even making cuffs. While a hydraulic press is not generally part of most home studios they are generally available in studio workshops.

This workshop will introduce you to the press and how you can incorporate is use into your jewelry designs.

Techniques taught:
• About hydraulic presses.
• About hydraulic press accessories
• Silhouette dies for hollow forms
• Impression dies for forming shapes
• Using the press with a disc cutter
• Creating texture and pattern with the press
• Making multiples of exactly the same sheet metal shapes with pancake dies