Most small shop jewelers couldn’t afford to have a precise die set made quickly and easily for every design conducive to blanking out of sheet metal—until now. What would cost a tool and die maker $1,000+ and more than a month to produce can now be generated at the bench in less than an hour and at a fraction of the price.

The new Blanking Die Saw from Lee Marshall of Santa Cruz, California, is unique in its approach to providing precision cutting in the vertical axis. “The saw frame is in alignment with the work in such way that you can make precision cuts by hand—cuts that previously were attainable only with a machine tool,” says Jim Binnion of James Binnion Metal Arts in Bellingham, Washington, and an MJSA Innovation Awards Judge. “This is a tool for someone like me—a small jewelry designer who is trying to do limited scale production but doesn’t have a lot of money to sink into tools.”

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