Coating The Metal With Flux for Making Jewelry

Video Transcript

"I'm D J Poye a professional Jeweler and Gemologist and I am here today on behalf of Expert Village. What we need to do first is we need to place a small coating of a borash or a flux on the main parts. The small bell and the pendant part. And what this flux does, it creates an exterior outside coating on the metal. So when there's a rapid heating of it and then cooling quickly, it will not create what they call fire scale on it so redly. The fire scale is what's extremely hard to remove. And so what does happens with the flux is that you'll just have less of that. So I have this what they call magic flame. I've used so many different kinds in the past. I find that this is a real, it works cleaner. I've used boric acid and alcohol, the natured alcohol but then you got to constantly mix it and stuff. And then you have some things that are not real green substanable so with this product it's very green. So I would take the main part again with my, another pair of tweezers and I would just soak it in here. Kind of mix it back and forth. You don't have to get a whole lot on there but you just have to make sure you cover it and coat it. It's not really going to hurt you if you touch it either. And then the small little bell part that I have here, that would go directly on the back, also needs to be coated. And so that's that. Now that, once again, is for the fire scale. It actually coats the metal and it helps it not to create that quick, rapid cooling that brings all that oxidation onto the metal. If you've noticed here too, I singered up, I just put a line on it with a small little fine point marker. I usually don't do that but I just wanted to say that it's not a problem to do, to keep the center point of the piece. It helps you focus and so it just makes it easier to pin point the spot where the bell needs to be sodded onto."