Buffing Your Piece Of Jewelry

Video Transcript

"I'm DJ Poye, professional jeweler and gemologist. And I am here today on behalf of Expert Village. We're back at the buffer again. We're going to be using a large wheel. We're tripling on it. The larger the wheel, of course, the larger movement you can get on the piece and also the higher polish you can get. Once again safety. Make sure your eyes are on; your hair is pulled back. Got you apron on so you don't get this stuff kind of flying on you. We'll do simple circular motions again but for the most part we're just working on trying to get it to the next stage which is rouge. Here we go. This is the brown triple A that is the compound I use to remove the light abrasives, scratches. It comes in blocks like this. You can break it up. A sample to show you here. Here's a small pieces I've been working on for quite some time. So when you put the triple A on, you'll start here and you'll move at an angle. To make sure it all gets spread up there like that. Then you'll come in to the teeth. And then just basically make sure you hold the piece properly. You don't want it to swing out of it's way. And you just kind of cover your basics here. You don't want to go in all one movement here. You want to go all in a circular movement. Because if you go in one movement your going to make a groove that's like metal. But you want to kind of just float around here a little bit. On the sides you want to make sure that you really get it to where all the part that you had with the file will even be smoother. So I'll be working on this stage for a little while and I'll see you at the next one."