Talátinígan
Platero - a smith who works with silver/gold; silversmith; goldsmith; jeweler
Plateria - a Spanish loanword for a smith’s workshop
Mananara - a stone setter who works alongside a platero
Pagsasara - setting of a gemstone in its mount
Engaste - a gemstone’s setting; gemstone’s mount
Iba’t ibang uri ng engaste:
Pinaligiran - perpendicular setting
Pakalupkop - overlay setting
Pangipin - prong setting
Palubog - flush setting
Wagas at Dalisay - pure gold; 24k gold
Pilak - silver
Tanso - copper
Kalawanging ginto - gold that has a reddish patina; rust-finished gold
Uri - the purity of a precious metal
Pag-uri - testing for the purity of a precious metal
Dalisayin - to refine gold
Laminador - rolling mill used for making sheets and wires
Pamukpok - hammer
Batakan - drawplate used for making wires
Rojo - jeweler’s rouge; polishing compound
Palayok - terra cotta crucible for melting metals
Grata - metal brush
Sahing - pitch for chasing and repoussé
Pagsapi - overlapping metal components for soldering
Pagbuhos - direct casting
Pagpalo - hammering; forging
Pagbangon - raising
Pagdutdot - hammering dots as surface decoration
Pagtukol - hammering a design from the reverse side of a metal sheet; repoussé
Paghabol - hammering a design from the front side of a metal sheet; chasing
Pag-ukit - carving a large amount of metal from the surface
Pagguhit - scoring metal; scribing
Paghutok - doming
Hinang - solder joint
Paghinang - joining two metal components by melting a filler metal; welding; soldering
Panghinang - a lower melting point metal used to join two metal components; solder in all its forms (pallions, granules, wire, and paste)
Pagliha - sanding
Pagbatak - drawing wire
Pahanay - granulations in a linear scheme
Pulo-pulo - mass formation of granulations
Iba’t ibang uri ng pulo-pulo:
Patampal - formation of granulations into a triangle
Pabulaklak - formation of granulations into a hexagonal or flower shape
Patumpok - formation of granulations into a three-dimensional shape; granules on top of granules