How to Select a Rock for Polishing

Series Summary

Do you have an idea for a beautiful necklace design? From earrings and bracelets to single stranded and elaborate multi-stranded necklaces, creating your own jewelry is fun, easy to learn, and can even be done at home. All it takes is the desire to create, the willingness to learn, and finally practicing your newly acquired craft. Making your own jewelry is a fun way to express your creative fashion talents. Whether you want to work with beads, stones, gems, metals, hemp or any other material, the basic construction methods are fairly simple. Custom handmade jewelry also makes a fine gift for birthdays or holidays.

In this series of free video clips you’ll learn tips and techniques for how to polish a rock. Expert Jason Harris shows different techniques and skills. With these easy instructions and a little inspiration you’re well on your way to becoming a rock polisher.

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Jason with ExpertVillage.com today we're going to learn about rock polishing. We're going to polish a rock for a charm for a necklace. What we'll need is a Dremel, a drill bit, a cutting bit, two sanding bits, well three sanding bits ones actually a polishing bit. And a cloth bit. And to pick out your rock, just find something out in the yard anywhere. Take a hammer and break open a piece. As you can see this is a really nice rock, this is some sort of marble. So break off a piece, the smaller the better. We can start polishing it and cutting it, shaping it from there. Take the, just take a hammer and just chip off a piece of the rock. If it's colorful inside and you like it, keep it. If not throw it away. And start over. Like the back side of this one is all brown, gray inside so, we're going to use this."