1. Beeswax
   Pickle
2. Solvent
   Jelly

The awesomely named pickle is a liquid compound that cleans up jewelry after it's been soldered. Recently soldered jewelry is going to have some ugly oxidation and mess from the flesh, and this will make it shiny and new looking.

1. Flux brush
   Scourge brush
2. Polish brush
   Duster

Flux is pretty necessary for any soldering job, but you need some way to apply it, right? That's where the flux brush comes in. Technically any small makeup or even paintbrush could do the job just as well.

1. Flippers
   Calipers
2. Tongs
   Reeder

Tongs are an integral piece of equipment to retrieve your soldered jewelry from the pot of hot pickle solution. Proper pickle tongs are going to be made of copper, which is why something like tweezers isn't the right choice, because they won't react with the compound.

1. Set square
   Table
2. Desk
   Jeweler's bench

Technically you can make jewelry on any surface, but of course, a jewelers bench is specifically designed for the task. The surface should be covered in some kind of laminated material, and ideally, you'll have a large selection of drawers for storing materials.

1. Yellow ochre
   Pickle
2. Flux
   Beeswax

Yellow ochre is necessary to protect heat-sensitive parts when you're soldering something like a setting. The ochre powder needs to be worked into a paste and applied to wherever you need heat protection.

1. Twine
   Copper tubing
2. Sisal rope
   Binding wire

Binding wire is good for holding two things together to allow you to solder them together since, traditionally, using your fingers to hold a solder joint will get you sent to the emergency room.

1. D-clamp
   Third hand
2. Jeweler's brace
   Jeweler's vice

A third hand works just the way the name implies. It can hold an item so it can be soldered, so you can closely inspect details with a magnifier, so you can clean or do anything that requires the help of a third hand.

1. Calipers
   Tongs
2. Needlenose pliers
   Pointed tweezers

Since soldering jewelry involves a lot of fine, tiny work, you need really small segments of solder, and holding those requires something fine, which is why pointed tweezers are necessary. Anything too hot or too small can be held with them.

1. Wire turners
   Calipers
2. Round nose pliers
   Wire pullers

Round nose pliers are ideal for bending wires into round shapes, so it's not just a clever name. Extra long jaws are best for fine work, and they're, of course, helpful with any custom jobs as well.

1. Ring mandrel
   Bezel roller
2. Chain pliers
   Prong pusher

A prong pusher looks like a blunt ice pick, and is necessary for setting a stone and making sure it stays set. The prong pusher is used to force the prongs down around a stone to squeeze it tightly in place.

1. Bench pin
   Burnisher
2. Bezel roller
   Flat iron

A bezel roller has a sort of half-moon shaped head that's usually made of stainless steel. You use it to roll the bezel around a stone in a pendant, signet ring or something similar.

1. Chasing hammer
   Ball peen hammer
2. Plating hammer
   Hand mallet

A chasing hammer actually serves two functions. The flat side of the hammer is actually very slightly convex with smooth sides, and it's useful for smoothly flattening or "chasing" metal, while the rounded side can be used to indent metal to give it that "worked in" look.

1. Screener
   Pith helmet
2. Jeweler's mask
   Magnifying visor

Like anything in the world of jewelry making, a tool that can free your hands up is necessary, so the magnifying visor is a simple and efficient way to hands-free magnify something by just using your head.

1. Beeswax
   Flux
2. Pickle
   Slicker

You're going to need to cut metal at some point, and you're going to use a saw blade to do it. To reduce the number of blades you're going to break, which is going to happen regardless, you need to lubricate them with beeswax. It keeps things running smoothly.

1. Milgrain tool
   Bezel engraver
2. Chain nose pliers
   Roller burnisher

A milgrain tool is essentially a metal wheel in a holder. You can use it to make something like a beaded edge around the outside of a pendant, on a ring or whatever you feel needs a little fancy touch. It can either be a hand tool or a pneumatic tool.

1. Band puller
   Ring setter
2. Stretcher
   Ring shank

A stretcher is precisely what it sounds like. If the band of your ring is not the size you need it to be, this tool can fairly simply distress the metal so it evenly expands to a larger size. Some also come with reducers so you can shrink your ring.

1. Tumbler
   Rock file
2. Kiln
   Stone basin

A rock tumbler can come in several formats including a magnetic version, centrifugal hand tumblers, electric and several other varieties. Basically, they spin the roks with an abrasive to smooth and polish them.

1. Texturing point
   Slate file
2. Diamond disc
   Slim burnisher

A good diamond texturing point can help you smooth and carve stones as well as many kinds of metals, aside from the ferrous ones like steel. Diamond particles are electroplated onto a stainless steel shank for some extra strength.

1. Shears
   Jeweler's scissors
2. Biters
   Clamp scissors

A good pair of shears is handy to have around for any number of tasks, but one of the handiest for a jeweler is, of course, for something like snipping off pieces of solder without having to twist and pry it all apart.

1. Jeweler's polymer
   Plastic
2. Rubber
   Wax

Jewelers can carve a model out of wax to design something new before they make the final version in metal. Jeweler's use a hard wax that can be carved and shaped easily, but isn't soft and melty like paraffin wax.

1. Hammer drill
   Flex shaft
2. Wire drill
   Burnisher

A flex shaft is essentially a bendy drill handle. You can get flex shaft attachments for a Dremel tool or you can get a desktop motor that operates with a foot pedal to increase or decrease speed.

1. Flat nose pliers
   Wire cutters
2. Calipers
   Tongs

Wire cutters are a pretty essential tool for jewelry work thanks to the fact so much wire is used in both the process of finishing work and holding things together while it's being made.

1. Wax cutter
   Narrow polish blade
2. Needle file
   Bit burnisher

Needle files are very small files that can be used to shape or smooth metal, especially in small, tight spaces. One side of the file will have a smooth edge on it to ensure they don't mark the metal as they're being used.

1. Shank
   Piston
2. Pilon
   Mandrel

A ring mandrel can usually be wood, steel or aluminum and set with grooves to mark various ring sizes. If you need to know what size a ring is, you just slide it over the end and let it drop. Wherever it stops will be labeled with a number that marks the size.

1. Metal press
   Calipers
2. Jeweler's pin
   Jeweler's level

Calipers are the perfect tool for making extremely precise measurements. The exact thickness of the metal of a ring band, the distance inside the band, the size of a setting ... it can all be measured either inside or outside the object.

1. Orbital drill
   Slot puller
2. Reamer
   Disk punch

A disk punch is a circular punch that you place on your flat metal of choice and hammer through with a hammer or mallet, depending on what you're working with. It's just like a cookie cutter, only for metal.

1. Padded pliers
   Nylon jaw pliers
2. Tin grips
   Barbed pliers

Nylon jaw pliers have soft jaws, which are key for any work with soft metals and also for getting a firm but non-damaging grip on things like wire. If there's a kink in your wire, holding it with these and pulling it flat and smooth will help out.

1. Hammer press
   Box
2. Stamp
   Anvil

Technically you don't 100% need an anvil, but you do need to a flat surface of some kind for hammering things out. That could be a wood block, a metal block, a good table or any other flat and solid surface.

1. Solder bead
   Iron
2. Heat gun
   Micro torch

Solder only works with heat and, of course, you don't want a full-on welding torch when you're doing fine work with jewelry, so a micro torch is the best tool for the job as it gives you a small but controlled flame to work with.

1. Orbital tool
   Jewelry press
2. Dremel tool
   Hand drill

A good quality Dremel tool with a variety of bits will be able to cover dozens of tasks. It's good for cutting, for sanding, for polishing and smoothing, for shaping and for a hundred other small tasks.

1. Bench pin
   Slat
2. Sawing edge
   Flux

A bench pin is a notched piece of wood you can attach to your work surface that allows you to steady your hand as you're sawing delicate materials or doing any precision work that could use some extra support.

1. Jeweler's vice
   Ring clamp
2. Bench pin
   Ring mandrel

A ring clamp is a cylinder that looks a bit like a finger into which you can force a wedge at the end to spread out and then hold the ring firmly around it. It's good for place settings, filing, engraving or anything else that requires a securely held ring.

1. Pickle pot
   Jewelry crock
2. Hot pot
   Steamer basin

Pickle is the solution that will clean your jewelry up for you, but it doesn't work very well if it's not heated. Your best option for heating pickle is in a pickle pot, which is basically a small crockpot that'll keep it nice and toasty.

1. Titanium ring clamp
   Carbide solder pin
2. Platinum bracer
   Tungsten solder pick

A tungsten solder pick is a good choice for any platinum soldering you need to do. The pick is used to manipulate very tiny pieces of solder around, and tungsten has an extremely high melting point, so it's best to use very precious metals like platinum.

1. Etcher
   Letter scribe
2. Jeweler stamp
   Punch

There are any number of jeweler stamps that can be used to punch letters or numbers into metal as well as symbols that are necessary for jewelry making, like a copyright mark or karat value or whatever else you need.

1. Brick
   Hot pad
2. Charcoal block
   Black box

A charcoal soldering block is a surface on which you can solder anything you like without fear of actually destroying the surface, since it's meant to absorb the heat. It can also be used as a mold if you carve shapes out of it.

1. Benchtop polisher
   Tumbler
2. Electric shiner
   Buffer

A benchtop polisher is a simple tool that spins a buffing or polishing surface that you can run your finished pieces across to get them to a perfect shine so they're ready for sale or to wear.

1. Monocle
   Loupe
2. Microscope
   Magnifying visor

A jeweler's loupe is used to inspect jewelry closely and, in particular, stones. The standard for inspecting a diamond for quality is a 10X magnification loupe that will let you see any imperfections in the stone.

1. Wire plug
   Mandrel
2. Spindel
   Drawplate

A drawplate is essentially just a board or plate with a series of different sized holes in it. The holes shrink in size from one side of the plate to the other, so that when a wire is pulled through, it will be condensed in a way that doesn't damage the finish.

1. Engraver
   Etcher
2. Spindle
   Soldering iron

Engraving a ring is a nice way to make it personal, but how do you engrave something into solid metal? With an engraving tool, which is a pretty simple device that just etches the surface enough to make it textured and legible.