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Default Flattening silver wire

On Sep 20, 11:35 pm, rolfsing wrote:
I've been making simple stuff for years, hammering away at 16-20 guage
silver wire. I've got a neck injury now and every time I pick up the
hammer, I set myself back about 2 months in my healing. I hate to give
up my jewelry making - any ideas about how I could flatten wire
without using a hammer? Are there any hand cranked tools or electric
flatteners that aren't for industrial use?
thanks in advance... !


Back in the days when I was making jewelery there was a roller made
just for that job. It would be fairly easy for a home machinists to
build. Mine would flatten round wire and take round wire and reshape
it to half-round.