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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?

23/09/2026

I’ve just restored this for the drill press. It was all rusted with no movement, and over the last few weeks I’ve been adding oil, taking back the rust and getting the components moving again. These drill presses are not most common tool in workshop? I didn’t purchase this. I rescued it and I feel like it’s a bit of a luxury tool. and when I see how easily the drilling process can be it makes me want to clear a space and have this set up permanently in the workshop, if you’re drilling one hole two holes, it’s not gonna make sense, but if you’re piercing out something with 20 or 30 different openings and you have to drill each one of them, this will really be a benefit for my students. At the end of the day, that’s what I spend my time doing, trying to make my students experience the best it can be. There’s many ways I can improve that experience, and it’s not always with tools I’m also trying to improve the experience for past students, fellow makers, acquaintances, and just people that have an interest and they’re here on the platform. My big goal at the moment is to make social media more social again.

16/09/2026

LASER EXPERIMENT — EPISODE ONE

I think one of the easiest things to do with any new machine is look at how everyone else is using it and assume that’s what it’s for.

I’m trying to do the opposite.

Over the next few weeks I’m going to experiment with some more unusual, creative and hopefully innovative ways of using a laser in the jewellery workshop.

Some of these ideas might work. Some might lead absolutely nowhere.

But they’re the kinds of questions that start running around in my head, and eventually I just have to try them and see what happens.

I’ve always enjoyed experimenting with alternative materials, processes and finishes, and having a laser in the workshop gives me another tool to explore with.

For this first experiment I wanted to see what would happen when I used the laser on carving wax, not necessarily to cut or engrave it in the traditional sense, but simply to see how the material reacted.

The result was definitely not what I expected.

Now I need to get it cast and see what it looks like in metal.

The LaserPecker LP5 used in this video was gifted to me by LaserPecker. There’s an affiliate link in my bio if you’d like to read more about the machine.

More experiments to come.

If you have read this far, let me know by telling me which pattern I could try next. I really want to do cheetah print myself 🐆

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