Gluing Sketches To Metal for Making Jewelry

Video Transcript

"I'm DJ Poye, professional Jeweler and Gemologist, and I'm here today on behalf of Expert Village. I went ahead and finished the small rendering on a piece of paper. When you first start creating a design, it's more of a free form design for me, before you get into the technical measurements and the size of what the piece really actually needs to be. So I hate to be restricted, so I always start out with a really flowy movement, and then of course, then I have to condense it down and to work a piece of art. What we're going to do now, as you can tell that all the pieces around will be cut out and pierced out. And then the center pieces will be pierced out, too, as well. And then what we need to next is place it on the metal. I chose a simple piece of metal, it's 20 gage. You try to use the utmost proportion of the metal when you do it, saving as much as you can. The size frame, again, is going to be 20 gage metal, which will be easy to pierce. 2-2/3 inches by 1-1/2 inches. And basically what you do once you get this full design going, you make sure that it's going to fit on the piece of metal, and like I said, use the utmost portion so you have a little bit of the section of the metal left. You don't want to just use it in the very center, and waste a piece of metal. And then basically what I end up doing is I have found out this glue stick works the best and adheres the tracing paper to it the best. I just make a nice, even coat on it, and then I pick up the rendering. And basically what you want to make sure that when you put the tracing paper in, that you don't really smudge the rendering, the pencil lead part on here. And you want to make sure it's fairly even on here. And you also want to make sure that there's actually no bubbles and stuff. And it dries fairly quickly, and then you basically I always wait maybe ten or fifteen minutes, between time to just make sure it gets a nice adhesive, and then I just place it directly on here like this. "