Smoothing & Polishing Hand Made Jewelry

Video Transcript

"I'm DJ Poye, professional jeweler and gemologist and I am here today on behalf of Expert Village. After you do the small radial bristle brush that's about an aught which is fairly coarse, there's different coarses that you can go with these brushes. I just find that the onesI use the most work the best for me and those are the ones that are a little bit more abrasive. These 3M compound brushes I use too, as well. The red ones, not quite as coarse and so, what I'll do is, and of course, you see the white one and it's more of a coarse. So, if you got something, let's say you cast a piece, it's got a big sprew, which is at the base that you are to cut off when the metal goes into the ring and you got a big piece there you really need to grind off. Then, these more coarse ones work to remove the metal quicker. Well, we're not really trying to remove metal, we're just trying to remove some of the marks from the piercing saw. So, I'll use a lighter grade and I just put it on the end of the spindle here and give it a good turn. So, basically, you hold it and you can tell that when I make my move around it, the parts that I'm doing are becoming more smooth. And if you just want to do this more of a straight away, there's not, your not really trying to put an edge on there, we're just trying to make the metal more smooth. And you know, sometimes, when you come around the corner with a piercing saw, you're not exactly totally perfect with that. Well, this wheel right here will make it to where you can round that part out. So, this is a real helpful tool right here, this little 3M abrasive mat wheel. And that's basically all I'll do. So, as you can tell on the sides, it's getting smoother and smoother every bit of a step and stage that we do."