Responsibilities
- Hold consultations with commissioning clients
- Discuss a client's range of options and formulate original ideas
- Sketch out ideas, sometimes using computer-aided design (CAD), to help the client visualise the finished design.
- Mounting - making the framework for the piece of jewellery. This involves handling, forming and drilling metal, and opening out holes in which to place the selected gems
- Model making (casting) - making an object or decorative detail using a mould
- Stamping and presswork
- Chasing - making a raised pattern on the surface of the metal
- Soldering and fabrication
- Polishing - ensuring the finish of the piece.
- Electro-plating - layering a precious metal onto a base metal
- Enamelling - fusing powdered glass to metal in a kiln to create coloured patterns and pictures
- Welding - joining pieces of metal using traditional methods or by laser
- Engraving - carving lettering or patterns into precious metals by hand or by computer-aided manufacture (CAM)
- Knowledge of conceptualising jewellery design
- Manufacturing various jewellery products
- Education in jewellery designing.
- Knowledge of both technical and aesthetic traits of jewellery designing.
Skills
- Creative thinking and vision, to produce new ideas
- Practical application to produce a piece which is desirable in the marketplace
- Practical ability to work with tools and materials, such as metals and gemstones
- Drawing and computer design skills to produce designs
- Dexterity, attention to detail and good hand-eye coordination
- Organisation and time-management skills and the ability to work to deadlines
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