Piers Carpenter Road Tests Maun’s Nylon Jaws Parallel Pliers

Maun's Nylon Jaws Parallel Pliers

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In this post, professional jewellery-maker Pliers Carpenter puts the Maun pliers to the test and demonstratesmasterpieces how he uses them to create his masterpeices.

About Maun Jewellery Tools

Maun has long been a respected brand within the jewellery sector and community, so much so that our tools are often referred to simply as Mauns.

We’re renowned for our British made, high-quality, durable tools that are suitable for professional use, last through the years and deliver results.

Benefits of Nylon Jaws Parallel Pliers for Jewellery Making

Jewellery makers actively work with precious metals, so having tools that prevent marking is a must. Our Plastic Jaw Parallel Pliers provide jewellers with the power to bend and manipulate soft and fragile materials, with a firm grip for complete accuracy, while leaving no marks.

Maun currently manufactures two types of pliers with nylon jaws:

•   Maun 4874-140 Nylon Jaws Flat Nose Parallel Plier 140 mm with Return Spring.

•   Maun 4854-140 Nylon Jaws Flat Nose Parallel Plier 140 mm.

•   Maun 4773-140 Round And Flat Nylon Jaws Parallel Plier 140 mm.

Both tools come with their own unique benefits and uses.

Piers road-tested them, and here’s what he had to say about our Nylon Jaws Parallel Plier range.

If you don’t have time to watch the whole video, we have highlighted Piers’ key messages as he road-tests the 4874-140, a 140 mm flat nose parallel plier with two flat nylon jaws, alongside the 4773-140, a 140 mm parallel plier with one tapered round steel jaw and one flat nylon jaw. He uses both pliers while forming keyhole-shaped links that fit into one another to form a knot shape.

“These are the links that I am forming, that I think these pliers will be perfect for. In fact, I know they are because I have already done a couple of links.”

After working with the links using the flat nose nylon jaws plier, he comments favourably on the surface finish, “… you can see there’s nothing, no big dent, marks or gouges. Because these were pre polished, you do lose a little bit of shine. Personally, I’d always repolish it again. I mean, I have to anyway because the links will be soldered together, eventually so.”

Turning to the Round And Flat Nylon Jaws Parallel Plier, he notes that the metal round jaw will leave a bit of a mark, but there is no alternative because a nylon round jaw would not be strong enough to bend the wire, “The metal part will always mark the metal you are working on, but if the round jaw was nylon as well, you wouldn’t have the force to bend it. Bend that round like that, and again not marked.”

Summing up his experience, Piers comments on the two pliers, “For what I am doing, they are perfect, because sometimes with links, if you were to make a gouge in any point of this metal, especially this sort of design, it’s the symmetry that’s really important. If I gouge a bit of metal and had to buff it out, the width of the metal would become thinner, and it would be very, very obvious to anyone who looks at it that it is thinner because everything else is symmetrical.”

Piers’ bottom line, “Perfect, absolutely perfect.”

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