Profession jewellery mounter

Jewellery mounters create the framework for a piece of jewellery, on which the precious stones are added to later.

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Personality Type

• Realistic / Artistic

Knowledge

• Jewellery processes

  Materials and processes involved in creating jewellery items like earrings, necklaces, rings, brackets, etc.

• Precious metals

  Types of rare metal that occur naturally and have a high economic value.

• Precious metal processing

  Various processing methods on precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum.

Skills

• Select metals for jewellery

  Select and purchase precious metals and alloys to use in jewellery pieces

• Ensure conformance to jewel design specifications

  Examine finished jewellery products to ensure that they meet quality standards and design specifications. Use magnifying glasses, polariscopes or other optical instruments.

• Select gems for jewellery

  Select and purchase gems to use in jewellery pieces and designs.

• Adjust jewellery

  Reshape jewellery mountings.

• Create master models

  Make vulcanised rubber moulds that can be used for the lost wax casting process.

• Use jewellery equipment

  Handle, modify, or repair jewellery-making equipment such as jigs, fixtures, and hand tools such as scrapers, cutters, gougers, and shapers.

• Create jewellery

  Create pieces of jewellery using precious materials such as silver and gold.

• Clean jewellery pieces

  Clean and polish metal items and pieces of jewellery; handle mechanical jewellery-making tools such as polishing wheels.

• Build jewellery models

  Construct preliminary jewel models using wax, plaster or clay. Create sample castings in moulds.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB