Handpiece, #15, Hammer

Works well for bezel work

Easy to change from one head to the other

Been wanting one of these for a while. This is the same tool sold on jeweler's websites, not a copy, which I did worry about. Sold for the same price but I had an Amazon giftcard so I took the plunge here. It made setting a heavy gauge bezel much easier and was so much easier on my hands. I can see it being a very useful addition to my studio. It can also texture metal. I did go ahead and buy the additional bit set from Rio because it wasn't offered on Amazon.

Foredom makes great tools.

I bought this Foredom hand piece from a Kingsley North about 20 yrs ago & it seems in everyway to be the very same device I purchased w/o any new engineering. Back when I bought it there weren't the attachments that I see that they sell now. I was interested in the prospect of using it for engraving & asked the local Jewelers Supply if anyone ever shaped the tip to serve their efforts at engraving & was told yeah, people use it like that etc. When I bought it there was no warning not to operate it over a specific speed. After 10-15 times seeing if it can do anything remarkable or of benefit to my needs I stopped using it. I then fell ill, was in & out of hospital, & now after many surgeries, I'm told I'm not going to die & so have been replacing some old equipment & buying some new machines to once again become productive. But I feel Foredom developed that device & put it on the market originally without any indication of what it was specifically intended to be used for & now I read about operation limits, & wonder if I damaged a device that could help me at least bezel set stones something I wasn't doing then but am now. But to be honest it never seemed effective for any meaningful use & Foredom does yes make quality items but shortchanged the people regarding this device by a large margin many years ago. Also, for what it's worth, yeah they make quality products, but I've been buying a lot of the simpler products from China & in more than a few instances I've found that what is being sold over here by the few jewelry supply companies are in fact the items I've bought directly from China with the same containers, markings & in once instance the same name, & the markup that these American companies are hitting us with is beyond any justification whatsoever no matter how well made as so much comes from China & just gets relabeled. And that which is made here isn't the ridiculous prices they are because of the pay they give American workers, though that is part of the higher price which I'd always be happy to pay, but it's in large part due to the positively absurd incomes the top executives pay themselves compared to every other country around the globe. Check what the health insurance industry pays it's top executives & there's a big reason why we're paying through the nose. All the guard rails protecting us from Darwinistic capitalism have been repealed like laws against interlocking directorships, & the loansharking laws we're repealed so banks could charge interest rates of 30%, 33% & lord knows if there's even a cap on that which they charge the people least able to afford them & yet push those cards on people right around Christmas when parents are at their weakest as far as trying to do right ny their children. And yeah, we in the US grew up with an ethics system based on the Protestant Ethic of which if people knew the history of that they would be outraged as it was pure evil. But I can't write a historical dissertation on that here.

Well made

Es duradero y realmente bueno para cerrar biseles de joyería.

Not much power. Even barely makes mark on silver which is a very soft metal.