Jewellery mounter jobs in Finland
Jewellery mounters create the framework for a piece of jewellery, on which the precious stones are added to later.
Jewellery mounter - Which skills are essential?
Handle, modify, or repair jewellery-making equipment such as jigs, fixtures, and hand tools such as scrapers, cutters, gougers, and shapers.
Types of rare metal that occur naturally and have a high economic value.
Reshape jewellery mountings.
Create pieces of jewellery using precious materials such as silver and gold.
Select and purchase gems to use in jewellery pieces and designs.
Examine finished jewellery products to ensure that they meet quality standards and design specifications. Use magnifying glasses, polariscopes or other optical instruments.
Select and purchase precious metals and alloys to use in jewellery pieces
Make vulcanised rubber moulds that can be used for the lost wax casting process.
Construct preliminary jewel models using wax, plaster or clay. Create sample castings in moulds.
Materials and processes involved in creating jewellery items like earrings, necklaces, rings, brackets, etc.
Clean and polish metal items and pieces of jewellery; handle mechanical jewellery-making tools such as polishing wheels.
Various processing methods on precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum.
Jewellery mounter - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Engrave and print designs and patterns onto a variety of surfaces.
The various processes various materials used for electroplating may produce, such as copper plating, silver plating, nickle plating, gold plating, embossed gold plating, degreasing, and others.
Make jewellery repairs, such as enlarging or reducing ring sizes, soldering pieces of jewellery back together, and replacing broken or worn-out clasps and mountings.
Provide customers with detailed advice on watches and pieces of jewellery available in the store. Explain about different brands and models and their characteristics and features. Recommend and provide personal advice on pieces of jewellery, according to the customer's needs and preferences.
Buy and sell jewellery, or serve as an intermediate between potential buyers and sellers.
Heat and melt jewellery materials; pour in moulds to cast jewellery models. Use jewellery-making material such as spanners, pliers or presses.
Heat, melt and shape metals for jewellery making.
Wrap metal, steel or similar wires around jewellery and connect them to each other using mechanical techniques to create a decorative shape.
Assemble and thread different jewellery parts together such as pearls, locks, wire, and chains by soldering, clamping, welding or lacing the materials.
The characteristics of various materials and methods used to engrave something on a surface.
The process of creating pearls by inserting a piece of tissue in the centre of the oyster to help create pearls under controlled conditions, instead of the accidentally occurring natural pearls.
The materials and processes used to create imitation jewellery, and how to manipulate the materials.
Perform the art of inserting contrasting materials, such as different types of metal, into one another in order to create detailed patterns.
Develop new jewellery designs and products, and modify existing designs.
Estimate the total cost for the maintenance of watches or pieces of jewellery.
The process of shaping metal parts with a high relief or very fine features, such as coins, medals, badges or buttons, by pressing the surface of the metal between two dies.