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Drilling, boring and reaming
News Release from: Kennametal UK | Subject: Tool design - a different perspective
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 November 2003
Setting up a new drill in jewellery
design
What do timeless jewellery and precision tools have in common? Designing jewellery based on a range of tool products does not seem a bizarre idea for long, says the tooling supplier.
What do timeless jewellery and precision tools have in common? They are works of unique creativity - the creative force of the designer on the one hand, the technological ingenuity of highly qualified engineers on the other At EMO 2003, Kennametal is combining the two in a unique jewellery collection
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Designing jewellery based on a range of tool products does not seem a bizarre idea for long.
Kennametal tools are optimized with regard to their materials and their functionality.
This produces design based on functionality.
If you look more closely, you discover a unique aesthetic sense, founded in the object's expression of form.
The students in the precious stone and jewellery design faculty at the Trier/Idar-Oberstein technical college were faced with the task of grasping this concept and artistically highlighting the quality of Kennametal tools.
The project has been a total success.
The young artists successfully accomplished the fascinating fusion of functionality and artistic imagination, of materialism and emotion.
In conjunction with textiles and latex, with silver, brass or steel, with PVC, silicone or epoxy resin, Kennametal products are shown in their most beautiful state.
From the individual combinable lapel pin to the ornamental belt, to the necklace, a spirited collection of flattering and unique specimens was produced - highly ornamental symbols of the global KennaCommunity.
"When a drill becomes a chain, perhaps we spontaneously see a little sunlight," explains Professor Theo Smeets, who is the project manager at Trier technical college.
"The perfection of the tool combines with the idea of sunlight, the man or woman wearing it literally seems to shine." As this is not originally the purpose of the tool, it attracts your attention.
Its functionality and its quality are pushed into the limelight by its presentation as a piece of jewellery.
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