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Thread: How do you polish your nooks and crannies??

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    Default How do you polish your nooks and crannies??

    As I am totally self taught on the pmc front - I have bought a couple of books though - but nothing I have seen has really said anything on how to get the white film out of nooks and crannies in fired pmc. I use the normal brass brush; grades of wet n dry and sanding sponges cut to all sorts of shapes and sizes; burnishers etc etc but nothing seems to really get right in there... Has anyone out there sussed out how to do it?

    And while I am on the subject of metal clay...since so many people have a passing interest in it don't you think there ought to be a heading on the main forum for metal clay questions/answers/hints n tips/experiences etc? I noticed there is something for beads and beaders. Is it only something the administrators can add?

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    now thats a great idea ... sorry can't help you with you nooks and crannies i'm new to pmc charms & toggles is as far as i have got but do love it there is so much you can do with it ...

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    Red face

    I have always assumed its whatever you can improvise to get in to nooks and crannies... I'm pretty good at wet and dry origami

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    I stick everything in my tumbler and they come out shiny but I do have the thin pins in my stainless steel shot mix.
    Another option is the polishing wheels with the little tentacles just looked it up Cooksons call them radial abrasive disks.

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    I need to look into these thin pins for the barrel washer they sound ideal!

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    Cooksons doesn't have the pins in their shot, the only place I saw that for sale with pins is from a metal detecting place which I can't find again lol

    ... great help aren't I?

    But I agree, get a tumbler if you can, some shot and use plain old washing up liquid in it instead of burnishing compounds and the like (but just one or two teeeeny drops as you get lots of foam as I found out). You'll be amazed at how shiny things come out!

    If anyone can suggest a place that sells shot with the pins in I would be very interested

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    ukge.co.uk do shot with pins and one of the pmc/acs supply places in the uk - one that does a lot of kilns - off the top of my head kitiki or something like that - had it too...but I found their website so hard to use I haven't gone back there again!!

    I use grated soap - the old fashioned kind - bog standard, basic, unperfumed stuff which costs 11p a bar at the local independent chemist...and put a little bit on the end of a slushpuppy spoon in my barrel.....My God!...how weird am I?? Just a tad unconventional perhaps!! After all - all that is needed is a de-greaser and lubricant - and I worry about the effect of all the extra chemicals in most washing up liquid now!!! I'm very environmentally friendly!!
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    I think manchester minerals had pins too
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    traditional jewellers use polishing threads. you can also get these great polishing sticks. I don't know if Cooksons have them, but Walshes do http://www.hswalsh.com/Polishing_Sti...px?i=TP6&t=152 these can be filed to a tiny point! you could also try using the point of a very fine burnisher. sometimes I find steel brushes as opposed to brass work too (not as soft so push into the gaps)
    Also glass brushes are sometimes good.
    Hope that helps
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    Quote Originally Posted by Solunar Silver Studio View Post
    I'm very environmentally friendly!!
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