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Hello, on behalf of Expert Village, my name is Joe. I own The Vug local jewelry store
in Salt Lake City and I'm a bench jeweler. These are two basic mandrels. This is a bracelet
mandrel and a ring mandrel. Obviously used for sizing or shaping. A mandrel can be used
and is used when sizing. This mandrel has sizes, ring sizes on it. So, if I was sizing
it up from a six, this is showing a six to a nine. I would have to go three sizes up.
Which this mandrel has the marks of a size that I would add or cut out of the back to
take it down if I was doing that. Great mandrel, made of steel. You can beat on this and really
shape the metal nice. A bracelet mandrels pretty basic. You can do real basic, cuff
bracelets. You can also hammer on this. It does different sizes, the biggest being the
size of my wrist or a mans bracelet. The middle is probably more of a woman?s bracelet. Two
great tools to have. The ring mandrel also sometimes comes with a grove in it, in case
there's a stone sticking through the back of the ring. It can go in the groove without
damaging the stone. You can still work on the back of the ring.