BH1
16-06-2020, 04:12 PM
Hi everyone!
Ive wrote on here a few times before and always got good advice but I'm always eager to learn more.
I have been working with sterling silver sheets making nameplate necklaces mainly or custom pendants for necklaces. Right now I cut the nameplates out then I polish them using a 2 wheel polishing/buffing motor I bought from cooksongold. This polishing motor was around £100 and doesn't have a dust extractor built in like better versions I have seen, it makes a LOT of mess and I've had to move it from my small jewellery studio out into the garage as it was just making the entire room filthy with the rouge and dust going everywhere. Can anyone recommend a good polishing machine with dust extraction built in? As I still need to get a proper one of these for our nameplates and larger pendants. And in peoples experience can you use these in your studio without making the whole place dirty?
Another thing I was hoping for advice with is I have recently stated cutting out tiny pendants from sterling silver that are around 8mm by 8mm in size which are really difficult to polish because of how tiny they are. We also are needing to produce around 100 of these tiny pendants at a time so its very time consuming using the polishing wheel for each and every one. I was wondering if there are any other methods I can use to polish them? I just need to round and soften the edges of each pendant. I was looking at barrelling machines but I have never used one before so unsure if that would do the job? Any other ways or will I just have to use the polishing wheel? Forgot to add that the sterling silver sheets I buy are already mirror finish so I'm not needing to polish them up much I just need to soften the edges and make them more rounded so they don't look like a flat cut out of metal if that makes sense.
Again, sorry if these questions are stupid - teaching myself as I go!
Thanks!
Ive wrote on here a few times before and always got good advice but I'm always eager to learn more.
I have been working with sterling silver sheets making nameplate necklaces mainly or custom pendants for necklaces. Right now I cut the nameplates out then I polish them using a 2 wheel polishing/buffing motor I bought from cooksongold. This polishing motor was around £100 and doesn't have a dust extractor built in like better versions I have seen, it makes a LOT of mess and I've had to move it from my small jewellery studio out into the garage as it was just making the entire room filthy with the rouge and dust going everywhere. Can anyone recommend a good polishing machine with dust extraction built in? As I still need to get a proper one of these for our nameplates and larger pendants. And in peoples experience can you use these in your studio without making the whole place dirty?
Another thing I was hoping for advice with is I have recently stated cutting out tiny pendants from sterling silver that are around 8mm by 8mm in size which are really difficult to polish because of how tiny they are. We also are needing to produce around 100 of these tiny pendants at a time so its very time consuming using the polishing wheel for each and every one. I was wondering if there are any other methods I can use to polish them? I just need to round and soften the edges of each pendant. I was looking at barrelling machines but I have never used one before so unsure if that would do the job? Any other ways or will I just have to use the polishing wheel? Forgot to add that the sterling silver sheets I buy are already mirror finish so I'm not needing to polish them up much I just need to soften the edges and make them more rounded so they don't look like a flat cut out of metal if that makes sense.
Again, sorry if these questions are stupid - teaching myself as I go!
Thanks!