Hydraulic Press Jewellery

For jewellery designers who need to quickly create repetitive shapes, the hydraulic press is an invaluable tool. You can use it for cutting disks, shaping metal, crafting hollow forms and more with ease.

Hydraulic presses are also employed in X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to compress powder mixtures into pellets for analysis.

Bonny Doon

Detroit-based band Bonny Doon is currently touring with Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and last week released their first single, "San Francisco," through Anti- Records. This mellow and plaintive tune sounds like it was written deep within the wooded areas of northern Michigan.

Last year, the band members traveled to a house in the woods near Michigan's Mystic Lake to write their new album, Longwave. After an intensive writing session, they took their songs back to Western Michigan's studio and tried to capture the feeling of solitude that they experienced during that time.

They encouraged improvisation and shunned both negative (as well as positive) press, making Longwave such an individualistic album. As a result, the record has an unmistakably immediacy not found elsewhere in other bands' work.

Their new hydraulic press jewellery allows them to create stunning rings, bracelets and more in minutes! With its powerful 20 tons of force, the Classic Pro can work on a variety of jewelry metals such as brass, copper and silver.

Bonnie Doon derives its name from 'Doon,' an Ayrshire river of similar beauty. Introduced to the Netherlands market in 1969, Bonnie Doon quickly achieved success.

Potter USA

Potter USA is a hydraulic press jewellery designer with an impressive collection of tools to inspire your next jewelry creation. They manufacture 20 ton hydraulic jewelry presses, pancake dies, silhouette dies, pattern plates and bracelet formers among other useful resources for the modern jewelry maker.

Jewelers often utilize impression dies to achieve the precise shape for metal being stamped into them. These dies are typically steel pucks with a depression matching the desired shape, such as square, oval or ring.

However, these dies have become a rarity in the modern world of stamping as manufacturing has moved overseas and die makers have had to train new generations of jewelers how to use their old school tools. Thankfully, there are companies out there that collect antique hubs and preserve them for future generations.

These hubs are even better than they appear! The original master hub was made from a single piece of high-strength tool steel and then press-fitted into a female die to produce the final product.

These tools have been made possible by Potter USA's dedication to preserving the history of jewelry stamping and design. They collect antique hubs and have used them in their designs to craft the ideal impression die for your jewelry creations.

Rio Grande

Rio Grande is a jewellery-making equipment, tools and supplies company that supports those who create with their hands and hearts, daring enough to pursue jewelry making as their livelihood. Their products include metal stamping tools and presses - essential tools for many jewelers.

Bonny Doon hydraulic presses are engineered to be the safest and most versatile metal forming tool for jewelry, hollowware and metalsmithing. Not only are they built for strength and safety, but they come with a five-year warranty on manufacturing defects as well.

In this video, Bonny Doon owner and innovator Phil Poirier demonstrates how to utilize their silhouette die blanks for increased versatility and customization of your press for jewelry-making needs. He uses these versatile die blanks to craft a pair of copper earrings.

The Bonny Doon hydraulic press is an incredibly versatile metal-forming tool that can emboss, texture, bend, form and cut metal with less marring and reduced production time. With up to 20 tons of force generated by its high speed hydraulic cylinder, you're free to form metal in any size or thickness with ease - perfect for jewelers looking to increase efficiency and productivity! Plus its easy-to-read pressure gauge makes it suitable for various metals including silver and gold.