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Featured Tool July 16: Prong Opening Pliers

By on July 16, 2012
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by Rose Marion, Wire-Sculpture.com

Tool of the Week for
July 16, 2012

This week’s tool: Prong Opening Pliers, #PLR-132.00

Video by Kate, JewelryTools.com

This week’s featured tool from JewelryTools.com is the Prong Opening Pliers PLR-132.00. If you got into jewelry-making by way of repairing jewelry for your friends or yourself, you’ll be delighted to discover that these pliers will allow you to remove stones from old settings, so you can reuse those special stones, without spending time getting frustrated using chain nose pliers and possibly damaging the stone!

As you can see in the video, the top jaw has a notch that will grab the tip of the prong, and the lower jaw is grooved to hold the prong.

Plus, if you’re simply making your own new jewelry from wire, this tool will help you adjust your own narrow wire prongs without leaving tool marks or nicks, and even help placing snapsets if the stone has gone in askew. This is a specialized tool that a jewelry artist working in faceted stones will find invaluable!

Click here to see these Prong-Opening Pliers, only available on JewelryTools.com:

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Prong Pliers

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