Preparing The Saw for Making Jewelry

Video Transcript

"I'm DJ Poye, professional Jeweler and Gemologist and I am here today on behalf of Expert Village. Here we are with the metal again, and the glue is totally dry and on the tracing paper as you can see and so what we first want to start off is, you, you basically will have a simple jewelers saw. I'm going to change the saw blade right now because I want to make sure we have a nice new crisp one at hand and I have to get my other glasses on here. I just use a one ought saw blade because I don't need to make any finer cuts right now. You always make sure the saw blade itself, the teeth that are jagged, will be focused down. You place the saw blade into the very top of the saw and screw it down. You want to make sure it's totally kind of straight and then you want to place it onto your shoulder, and you want to kind of crank in on your shoulder, it has a bow part, so it'll pull the tension off the bow, the saw blade goes in there so when you release, you saw blade is taught. "