Priyasha Foundation

Many of you all have asked how you can help, what sorts of supplies are needed. 

I will be going back to India to teach soldering and wax working techniques to very vulnerable and at risk population of girls.  These girls are employed in a successful program that enables for them to empower themselves and earn a decent living through jewelry.

I’m raising money for supplies and expenses, and asking for tool donations, specifically focusing on soldering tools and equipment.

The list of tools is below.  If you have some extra tools sitting around your studio that you’d like to donate, please contact me. 

If you’d like to make a monetary donation, or an ongoing monthly donation to support our work, the link is to your right, or listed below:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=j8uC57xY_57wu-xN-lINQo1Iv6BiH868asf5doDNFoEJKJIjIJIGESuX7O4&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8db02a037e263542f58098410815cf7df7

The girls and I thank you in advance for your amazing support of my work in India.  Thank you!

Jewelry Tool Wish List

Soldering:

·         soldering picks

·         soldering tweezers

·         soldering pads

·         charcoal blocks

·         cross locking tweezers with heat pad

·         straight soldering tweezers with heat pad

·         silver sheet solder-ez, medium, hard

·         citric acid powder

·         boric acid powder

·         3rd hand

·         T-pins

·         stainless steel binding wire

·         pickle pot

·         silver, copper wire-20 gauge for practicing

·         copper, silver sheet for practicing

·         Sparex

·         Baking soda

·         Torches and regulator

·         Or-donation for buying a torch in India (US torches have the wrong fitting for the gas tanks)

·         Denatured alcohol

·         Paste flux

·         Battern’s flux

·         000 fine sable paintbrushes for flux

·         Glass jars with lid to make flux

·         Coffee cup warmer for warming pickle

Hand Tools and Design

·         Saw Frames

·         Saw Blades (3/0 ish are best but anything goes)

·         Pliers

o   Chain nose

o    Flat nose

o    Round nose

o   Half-round

o   Forming pliers

o   Cutting pliers

·         Pliers: with protective plastic

·         ESCAPEMENT FILES

·         Needles Files – All shapes

·         Flat Files coarse, med and fine

·         Half round files, med and fine

·         Cutters/Snips

·         Digital calipers

·         Flush cutters

·         Scribes

·         Center punches

·         Chasing Hammers

·         Rawhide/deadblow hammers

·         Goldsmithing hammers

·         Bench pins

·         Riveting hammers

·         C Clamps

·         Bench blocks (steel)

·         Sandpaper

·         Hand drills

·         Cutting shears

·         Joyce Chen scissors

·         Safety glasses OR Reading glasses OR optivisors

·         Mandrel – ring

·         Mandrel –Round bracelet

·         Harbor Freight Dapping Set (fine for us for now)

·         File Cleaner

·         New brass brushes

·         Steel shot for tumbler

·         Hand vise/clamps

·         Bench vise

·         Pin vise

·         Anything low tech (besides flexshaft bits)

·         Eye protection

·         Templates – All shapes

·         Sharpies-black-fine & extra fine

·         Rubber cement

·         Dust Masks

·         Rubber gloves

·         Aprons

·         Stamps

·         Forming stakes

·         Forming hammers

·         Disc Cutters (pref. one that clamps down)

·         Jewelry Books: Technical or Aesthetic  but the more photos/diagrams  the better

·         Lark Books-500 series

·         Tim McCreight book

·         Jeweler’s Bench Reference

·         Joanna Gollberg’s book on cold connections

·         Casting books

·         Oppi Untract’s book

·         Hekki Seppa’s book

·         Draw plate (round)

·         Draw tongs

·         Ingot mold for casting wire and sheet

·         Drill bit gauges (large and small)

·         B&S gauges

·         Hand and digital calipers

·         6” rulers with inches and millimeters, see through, if possible

Flex Shaft:

·         Flexshaft-220 power

·         Dremel

·         Drill bits!!!! (between 1.00 mm and up)

·         Burs - (All kinds but think texturing: ball of all sizes, hart, diamond

·         Polishing wheels/wire wheels

·         Mandrels: screw top/split shank

·         Mizzy wheels (file modification and texturing)

·         End brushes

·         Steel brushes/brass brushes (mounted)

Wax:

·         Wax: green/purple

·         Wax files

·         Wax sawblades

·         Dental tools

·         Wax pen

Hydraulic Press:

·         Hydraulic press and jack

·         Steel and plexiglass for making dies

·         Rubber and accessories to go with hydraulic press

Enameling:

·         Mesh  stainless steel screen for making sifters-200, 400, 600

·         Enameling fork

·         Trivets

·         Large screens to put the trivets on

·         Enamels

·         All other enameling supplies-silver and gold foil, glass brushes, cloisonné wire, enameling tweezers, fine paintbrushes, etc.

Why hello, FL! Really looking forward to working with Made by Survivors this week. They do great work training girls in jewelry that have been rescued from human trafficking. Check them out here: www.madebysurvivors.com