Thanks for the replies!
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Thanks for the replies!
What are your top tips when coiling and cutting a lot of jump rings?
Thanks all - I am using a Foredom - I used a stiff felt mop and blue and a soft wool mop and white for final finish. Thanks - I tried going both ways for sandpaper. Finishing for me is my least...
Hi all,
I spent the day yesterday trying to finish my embossed pendant. The front looks brilliant - lovely mirror shine, as does the sides!
However, the back is starting to hack me off! For...
Very cute!
Beautiful design - lovely touches and beautiful finish.
Wow this is going to be fantastic when turned into its final state! Brilliant - can't wait to see it.
Hello - welcome
Sooooo nice! Shame it's so brittle!
Welcome! An exciting list! Definitely get a Foredom when you can! I love mine. And I love paste too - I'd get easy and hard too.
Many thanks all - it's not all textured - it's patterned in some places and not in others. But thanks will try all the above!
Can't wait for my radial disks to arrive! :)
Thanks - I am just thinking before the mop - it's scratched and needs a "sand" - just don't want to ruin the highs and lows of the pattern! Thanks.
With the rolling mill.
Hi,
Me again with more questions! Let me know when you are bored! Haha!
I am now onto finishing an embossed piece - a flat pendant with an embossed pattern.
I am a little unsure of how to...
Yes - thank you all who helped :)
Just an update: got back to sorting the ring today. Went round it with my file and the a mixture of hand and Foredom polishing and it has come up a treat. Have now invested in some radial discs too....
On a future note - is there any way of preventing the cupping?
Thanks Dennis - the links do not work presently (think the site is being worked on) but I realise what the radial disks are - must invest in these!
Just as a note - next time I bend a flat piece of sheet into a ring - is there anyway of avoiding the cupping? I use a tapered ring mandrel.
Thanks! I will have a go!
Many thanks - I will wrap my grades of sand papers around my files and give it another bout then! Not sure I really understand the 'science' behind the edges being higher....I will have a look at the...
Yes! So, I thought it was fire scale - I pickled it and then sanded twice again - all grits, emery and free hand and finished with luxi. Now it looks like that but more silver! What was the problem...
Caroline - no obvious it good!! I have tried both - I used emery sticks and tried sanding just with sandpaper on its own - thought my emery sticks might be 'too wide' and that's why they were not...
Hi Paul,
I have pickled it - in Picklean warmed in a slow cooker. Left it in there for 40 mins or so. Thanks though for the help and advice - all greatly received. Will try the flux idea.
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Can post photo later but at my day job today. Thanks for the help.