JewelryMonk Podcast
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JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 26
03/01/2019
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 26
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 26 In this episode I talk about Jewelry Polishing Polishing Concepts, Polishing Tools I use And the NEW Jewelry Polishing Video Series available at I also Talk about Safety in the Shop, Protecting your Lungs and Protecting your Eyes! I Highlight My dear friend in NYC, Stephanie Maslow Blackman Her company is Her Mission is to raise $30,000 for City Harvest in NYC I talk about a Cool Tool of the week, a Deburring Tool, and a video about it at And also just have a good ol' time. Doug
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JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 025
08/13/2018
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 025
JewelryMonk Podcast Tips, Tools, Cudos: I Just opened the JewelryMonk Studio and Training Center, BUT I haven’t forgotten those of you who are not so close to SD, and that is why I Just re-released a Comprehensive video series, where, I have taken my years of jewelry experience, and simply and thoroughly developed a step by step video tutorial that covers the whole process of fabricating and soldering a piece of jewelry from the drawing, to final polishing. It is called and I walk you through , In Video Form, every step from sketch to finished design. The Program has 19 videos that covers this process, as well as over 25 bonus videos along with it, literally hours and hours of content. Every podcast, I like to find people or companies that are doing it “right”, seeing past their situation and giving to something larger than themselves. Alex Fitz Fine Jewelry, out of Denver Co. Tip of the WEEK: Plastic Coated Paper Clips, With Video Cool Tool of the Week: Wooden Bench Pin Modification Explanation and Video I really enjoy sharing entertaining, encouraging, and educational content to anyone that is willing to listen, and has the heart of a learner. If you enjoy that as well, and enjoy what I am trying to create here, Leave me a comment or review somewhere…… anywhere you find JewelryMonk. But probably the most important thing you can do…… go to JewelryMonk.com and subscribe to the website, then you will be notified whenever I put out a new podcast, or better yet, a new video or tutorial on the website. As always…… tell a friend about the JewelryMonk podcast and website. It would be soooo appreciated. That’s it! Until next time, This is Doug Napier, with the JewelryMonk Podcast. Now……Let’s Get Ready to Make the BEST Jewelry of your Life! Doug
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The JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 24
07/26/2018
The JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 24
The JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 24 Introducing the JewelryMonk Studio and Training Center in Rapid City, SD. 717 Main St. 605 718-5070 Featuring: The Tailored Faith Company is a local Black Hills Company that just launched a new website. Inspirational Designs and Giving Back Check Jasmine’s journey out at Also Featuring: The Will-Hold Adjustable Soldering Aide It is an adjustable soldering pick on a magnetic ball. You put it where you need it, and it stays every time. You can adjust the tension with the push of a finger, and it stays put! The tip is tungsten as well, so solder won’t stick to it. He is backed up a little with production, but if you go to his website, you can get on the next pre-order list, which is just a week or two out. Jewelry Making Tips as well as Encouragement! Doug Now……Let’s Get Ready to Make the BEST Jewelry of your Life!
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JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 023
12/19/2017
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 023
The JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 23 Announcing the Fabricated Pendant Video Series: A Comprehensive Video Training Series that walks you through taking a piece of jewelry from sketch through all the processes to a finished piece of reproducible jewelry. Highlighting: Someone who is "Doing It Right" A company that focuses on "Paying it Forward". A Jewelry Tip on Soldering, and how to prevent Firescale. A Jewelry Tool: A Jeweler's Square, which can be found at: And a lot more "Fun Stuff" Now, Go Make Something Shiny! Doug
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JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 022
12/05/2017
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 022
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 022 JewelryMonk.com for All Things JewelryMonk Highlighting: JewelryMonk Studio and Training Center Blood:Water Mission Jewelry Tip: Non-Dominant Hand Soldering Health Tip: Back, Neck and Stress Cool Tool of the Week: Jeweler’s Square
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021 Podcast Cleaning Files, Pin Vises, Jewelers For Children
06/02/2017
021 Podcast Cleaning Files, Pin Vises, Jewelers For Children
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 21 Featured Artist: Jewelers For Children Tip of the Week: Cleaning Files Tool of the Week: Pin Vises and a CAD Conversion Worksheet. www.JewelryMonk.com
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020 Podcast - JewelryMonk Design Contest Kickoff
03/15/2017
020 Podcast - JewelryMonk Design Contest Kickoff
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 20 JewelryMonk Design Contest Kickoff In this episode The Kickoff for the JewelryMonk's 2nd Design Contest! Your Mission…… If you choose to accept it: Go to and download the PDF with Rules and Stone choices. Design a SILVER design around one of these stone. You have until March 31st, 2017, at Midnight to submit your design to . My team and I will select 1 winner and announce it soon thereafter. The winner will get their design created by myself. During this process, I will create a video series of the whole process from: Design – The Layout – Metal Fabrication and Cleanup – Rubber Mold Making - Wax Sizing – Casting the Production Piece – Grinding - Tumbling - Pre-Polishing - Stone Setting - and Final Polishing. The Theme of this video series will be Metal Fabrication and Soldering, using the winning design as an example. I will make this video series, Focused on METAL FABRICATION AND SOLDERING available for purchase when it is finished, BUT the winner will receive the series for free. BUT WAIT!!!! There’s More! (I have always wanted to say that….. sorry) The winner will also receive the finished model, the mold, and the finished piece to own. This design and finished piece is theirs to do with whatever they want, it will be ready to go into production if they so desire. ALSO, I introduced the A to Z Design to Finished Jewelry Video Course The A to Z Design to Finished Jewelry Course is a 10 lesson, 22 video series that takes you through creation a piece of jewelry, from concept and drawing, all the way to the completed piece of reproducible jewelry. The videos cover, in real time, all the processes from transferring your design onto a wax blank, preparing and carving the wax. Casting that wax into silver, and cleaning up the silver into a model that will be molded. Injecting wax into the mold and casting those waxes into silver. Preparing those castings with tumbling media and polishing the castings. Finally, the piece will be set with a pear shaped stone in a prong/bezel setting, and the piece of jewelry will be final polished and cleaned, ready to ship. (link below) Featured Artist of this episode is Hand Crafted Jewelry, Handcrafted for Unique Individuals Jewelry Tip: has to do with Mineral Oil used with Polishing Compound Cool Tool of the Week is a : Plus lots more...... Make sure to go to and see all the good stuff. Now, Let's Make something Shiny, Together. Doug
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Podcast Episode 19 - Purpose Jewelry - Wax Repair - Conversion Chart
03/03/2017
Podcast Episode 19 - Purpose Jewelry - Wax Repair - Conversion Chart
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 19 New Segment: Featured Artist PURPOSE Jewelry is a social enterprise that provides professional opportunities to young women rescued from sex trafficking. Something as simple as jewelry making offers young women a fresh start, and the ability to accomplish their dreams. Focus of JewelryMonk Industries: 3 E’s of Growth- Educating, Equipping, and Encouraging. Jewelry Tip : I have been doing a bit of wax carving this week, and helping some of the people who purchased the Jewelry Creation Method Course with some of their projects. So I put together a video about how to fix a ring When (not if) you break your wax while wax carving, here is a quick tip on how to repair a ring that is in pieces. Cool Tool of the Week: Have you ever started making a ring project, and were unsure how long to cut the wire or shank, so your piece is just the right size, with no waste? Today I have put together a quick tutorial on how I make my ring shanks just the right size every time, and have added a for you to have, to print out, and keep by your workbench. Leave you with a Quote "All new things lead to our death" Author....Fear Now, Let's make something shiny..... TOGETHER!
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018 Jewelry Creation Method Release
02/14/2017
018 Jewelry Creation Method Release
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 18 Featuring the Release of The Jewelry Creation Method Video Course Have YOU ever been Overwhelmed by all the seemingly complicated processes that go into jewelry making? How to tackle all the concepts used in the craft? How do you GET your design or idea from your mind into jewelry…. There’s Wax Carving - Casting – Model and Mold Making….. Soldering - Stone Setting - Polishing – just to name a few……and The list goes on. Have you ever wanted to take a design that is in your head and create a piece of jewelry from it, one that is repeatable? How much time could you save if you could reproduce one of your handmade designs, over and over, with the same results every time, without recreating the whole piece from scratch? Are you like me and Do you learn better by examples, rather that books or magazines? What if someone could show you a Jewelry Creation Method, The Process, The System, ……step by step, …..every detail, every concept and talk you through it all along the way….. Would that revolutionize your Jewelry Making Experience? If I could Show you how to make your jewelry ideas a reality? Would it open up new opportunities? for details
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Episode 017 New Year - Health - Design Contest - Tips - China
01/11/2017
Episode 017 New Year - Health - Design Contest - Tips - China
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 017 Update What have I been up to: Trip to China Started a new website CAD JewelryMonk Design Contest, Jillian Logue is Winner Adding Tutorials and Videos Video series Coming Soon How to - Be still Health Tip -- Abundance Project Alter your perception Communicate your thoughts Exercise Regularly Jewelry Tip Cotton Balls, Q-Tips, Aspirin Cotton Red Rouge Gray Compound Valve Grinding Compound Cool Tool of the Week 3D Digital Microscope QX800 HD High Resolution Subscribe at for Updates
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016 JewelryMonk Design Contest
11/08/2016
016 JewelryMonk Design Contest
016 JewelryMonk Design Contest The JewelryMonk website is promoting a Jewelry Design Contest Winner will receive their design made and a video process including: Design - layout - wax carving - casting - clean up - mold making - wax sizing - casting - tumbling - pre-polish - stone setting - final polishing. www.JewelryMonk.com/Contest1
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015 Jewelry Back Health Soldering Mini Saw Frame
07/27/2016
015 Jewelry Back Health Soldering Mini Saw Frame
015 Jewelry Back Health Soldering Mini Saw Frame Talking about: Trying to find that balance between Work - Health – Family life Evaluating my day,..... not by productivity, but by Soul-care and "Health-care, both physically and mentally. I have been a little active on Facebook, SnapChat, Pinterest, Twitter,….I have been using them as an opportunity for me to add a little Entertainment, some Character, and Life lessons as well. Some of these platforms let you get a glimpse into my life outside jewelry making, and see me and my “Quirkiness” at times. Jewelry Soldering Question: How to avoid the dark solder line that you get after soldering silver? Back Health: One quick tip is the 25/5 rule. Work 25 minutes, stretch or exercise 5 minutes. Deskercize: Upper Back Stretches Written by Ron Evans Cool Tool of the Week: Anderson Mini Saw Frames
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014 Younger Next Year, Soldering, Prongs, Ventilation
05/07/2016
014 Younger Next Year, Soldering, Prongs, Ventilation
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 14 Featuring highlights from the book: Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge Answering Soldering Questions Prong Layout and Setting Inline Ventilation for Bench Fumes Boaty McBoatface
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013 Jewelry and Silicosis, Saw-blade Stress Relief, Solder Talk
02/24/2016
013 Jewelry and Silicosis, Saw-blade Stress Relief, Solder Talk
JewelryMonk Podcast 013 Jewelry and Silicosis, Saw-blade Stress Relief, Solder Talk,Respirator Talkwww.Patreon.com/jewelrymonk
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012 Mindset, Eye Health, Torch Talk, Half-Round/Flat Pliers
01/28/2016
012 Mindset, Eye Health, Torch Talk, Half-Round/Flat Pliers
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 012
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011 Goal Setting, Depression, Tumbling Questions, Wax Remelting, Max Wax Pen
01/11/2016
011 Goal Setting, Depression, Tumbling Questions, Wax Remelting, Max Wax Pen
The JewelryMonk Podcast 011
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010 Health, Sleep, Jewelry Textures, Fiber Discs, Evernote
12/11/2015
010 Health, Sleep, Jewelry Textures, Fiber Discs, Evernote
www.JewelryMonk.com/episode10Health tips with highlights from the book Essentialism -The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeownAnswering tips on keeping track of time spent on working on a project or pieces, keeping notes about trials and errors and projects and experiments. What kind of notes should I be keeping?Texturing TalkCool Tool of the WeekMusic:Why Can't it be Christmas All Year by Rosie ThomasSanta's Lost His Mojo by Jeremy ListerEverything's Changed at Christmas But You by Drew Holcomb and the NeighborsJoy to the World by Andrew Ripp
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009 Jewelry Posture, Casting Talk, Polishing, Health
12/03/2015
009 Jewelry Posture, Casting Talk, Polishing, Health
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode #9
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008 Podcast Soldering Tips, Making Loops, Health Tip
10/29/2015
008 Podcast Soldering Tips, Making Loops, Health Tip
JewelryMonk Podcast 008
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007 JewelryMonk Bezel Setting, Dop Wax, Chair and Bench Adjustments
10/17/2015
007 JewelryMonk Bezel Setting, Dop Wax, Chair and Bench Adjustments
JewelryMonk Podcast 007
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006 Carpal Tunnel Exercises, Rotary vs. Vibratory Tumblers, German Chasing Hammer
10/02/2015
006 Carpal Tunnel Exercises, Rotary vs. Vibratory Tumblers, German Chasing Hammer
006 Jewelry Monk Podcast
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005 JewelryMonk Sawing Basics, Health, and Business Tips
09/23/2015
005 JewelryMonk Sawing Basics, Health, and Business Tips
005 JewelryMonk Podcast
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004 How to Make Pearl Posts
09/09/2015
004 How to Make Pearl Posts
JewelryMonk Episode 4
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003 Cancer Journey, Annealing Tip, and Dealing with Negative Comments
09/01/2015
003 Cancer Journey, Annealing Tip, and Dealing with Negative Comments
JewelryMonk.com Episode 003
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JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 002
08/15/2014
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 002
JewelryMonk Podcast Episode 002
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JewelryMonk Podcast Introduction Episode 001
08/06/2014
JewelryMonk Podcast Introduction Episode 001
JewelryMonk Podcast Introduction Episode 001
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