Removing Tracing Paper for Making Jewelry

Video Transcript

"I'm DJ Poye, professional Jeweler and Gemologist, and I'm here today on behalf of Expert Village. Well, here we are again, and as you can tell, I cut all the five centers out of the piece of sheet metal, and you can tell that basically, they're fairly round. We'll do some finishing work later. But you can see the stability of the piece right now. You can see that it doesn't have the openings like some of the very first renderings I showed you, that I made the piece where it was more stable. The next thing that we'll do is we'll be removing the tracing paper off of there. And to make sure that the metal is extremely clean and stuff when we remove that so we can stamp it and do the next stages after that. So I'll move into the bathroom, where the sink is, and I'll remove the tracing paper at this time. And you can tell it comes off very quick, and I take a small goat hair brush, and just really just hold the piece and get it off of there. And you can tell it doesn't take much to do that. It's water soluble glue, and it's, you know, it comes off very easy. So no more remaining paper, tracing paper, on the piece, and we move on to our next step."