Texturing & Brushing Hand Made Jewelry

Video Transcript

"I'm DJ Poye, professional Jeweler and Gemologist, and I am here today on behalf of Expert Village. Hi, we're back again, so we're moving forward with the piece here. We did the mark on the back, and now what you do is a process of eliminating smaller scratches and getting the piece to where its more fine tuned to do the tripling, which is removing the abrasions, smaller scratches with a compound, and then the rouge. So it's a series of stages that we have to move through in order to get through the tripling into the ruse, into the rouge. So the next wheel we'll do is a radial disc wheel that places a small light texture on the piece, and gives the piece the same texture on both front and back. It also smooths the pieces out, removes any extra shavings that have come off when you're doing the piercing. And also fine tunes the lines around the sides of the piece from the piercing as well. So we'll begin. Okay, I usually start, you want to make sure that the brush is going the same way as the wheel. You don't want to have the brush go the opposite way. You would never be able to brush anything. So I hold the piece very tight in my hand, and I actually secure from that side. And I just do a circular motion with the piece. Okay, and try not to push too hard down on the piece. Basically because you don't want to indent the piece with intense abrasions. Again, you just want to lightly go across it. And as you tell, the piece has now more of a frosted look, a more smoother look. We're going to do the other side too. You don't need to do this very much. All this basically does is bring the piece into more of a matte texture and really just gives it kind of a nice texture to hold to as well. I also do the sides a little bit. Once again, kind of pressing again hard on it, but I also hold the piece very securely. You don't want the piece to be coming out of your hand. That's why you always want to make sure you're wear your glasses, or your safety glasses. Okay, alright. Because these buffing wheels can move at high RPMs. But I just had to go in between these little areas here, and you can see that the abrasions or the scratch marks from the blade are getting more smooth. Once again, when we go through these stages, it's a process of bringing the raw metal into its pure form. And there you have it. It's got a frosted look on both sides but it's getting to where its starting to really, really feel smooth. There you go."