Bench Tips:

1. Would you like to see how the pendant you are designing would look with different bails? Draw a several bails on tracing paper and place them over your pendant drawing.

2. Carving a recessed well into the back of a bench pin provides a convenient place to put small stones and pieces of metal.

3. It is often difficult to saw straight lines without the saw wandering off course. Alan Revere suggests tilting the blade forward at an angle to make sawing long lines easier. One can now look down the length of the blade and line it up with the scribed line. Tilting the blade downward also means more of the blade is coming into contact with the metal’s surface and therefore limiting how much the blade may wander.

For more Bench Tips, check out the MGM Forum.