How Do You Pierce Metal For Jewelry Making?
To fabricate metal into jewelry you must learn to saw and pierce sheet metal. Sometimes you can begin sawing at the edge of metal. Other times the design requires the jewelry maker to create a cut in the center of sheet metal and begin sawing in the middle of the metal. To begin sawing in the center of the metal, you will need to drill a hole. Select a drill bit that is large enough for the saw blade to slip through. Insert the drill bit into your drill. Before beginning to drill, you will need to mark the sheet metal. You can use a scribe, punch, or automatic center punch to create this registration mark. Drill bits come in different numbered sizes. Lower numbers are larger bits: 50 ——————————————————– 80 Bigger————————————————-Smaller Here the automatic center punch is being used to register marks where a series of holes are to be drilled. The advantage of an automatic center punch is that no hammer is required to c
