Basics of Polishing Jewellery

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cbilton.creator-spring.com A subject I should have covered sooner as its an essential part of finishing jewellery... polishing!
I have a lot of experience polishing jewellery and it would simply be impossible to cover everything I know in one video so this upload will be the first of regular videos covering the art of polishing.
I cover the basics here, talking about the polishing motor, the mops plus other utensils needed to polish different parts of jewellery and while Im showing how I polish a ring shank I explain a few things about how to hold and move it against the mop.
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Пікірлер: 62

@placercountyprospecting Жыл бұрын

New follower, I'm a small scale gold miner and have been making jewelry with the gold I mine. With winter coming mining stops so putting more energy into the jewelry aspect and glad I found your channel. Also wanted to comment on your financial and economy comments. This was from a year ago, and you pretty much nailed it lol. I look forward to catching up on more of your videos, cheers.

@DiamondMounter Жыл бұрын

Welcome! That must be great to go get your own gold. I just learn about economy trends from other youtube videos Im no expert but I try to understand what the experts are saying.

@bobbyebaloney 3 жыл бұрын

I just started a bench jeweler's apprentice job where I get to polish jewelry. I was looking for a video to help me better understand...lol...everything! Thank you so much for this video! The leather is such a great suggestion, and the wax on wax off seems logical and I cant wait to try it out!

@DiamondMounter 3 жыл бұрын

Great! I quite enjoy polishing. Its a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it

@innatedesigns9720 3 жыл бұрын

Love the channel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, I have found many of your videos extremely helpful and enjoyable to watch!

@MickeysThree 3 жыл бұрын

best jewelry intro ever! subscribed

@gabrielkirkbaca2910 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for keeping it simple 👍

@Sandra92665 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for a very informative videos 😊

@leangcheang1075 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for your great video

@rexgeorg7324 3 жыл бұрын

love your channel chris

@toothnfang69 3 жыл бұрын

Throw out your rawhide mallets!

@DiamondMounter 3 жыл бұрын

@@toothnfang69 Haha

@allanfink6138 2 жыл бұрын

Scratched safety goggles: you can use cleaner/polishing liquid for motorcycle windshields to clear the scratches out and get rid of the "fog" that forms. Also good for your car's headlight lenses. It takes some rubbing with a cotton cloth, like an old tee shirt, so it takes a bit of work, but it is very effective on clear plastic.

@KyleTO7 Жыл бұрын

Omg where is your dust collector from? It's absolutely amazing 😍

@sirfirehare 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris for the informative video, I think i have been using way to much polish on my mops when I use them, wondering if your extraction/fan unit is all self contained or do you have another separate extractor plugged in behind? I'm trying to see if I can find one that is all self contained for convenience.

@DiamondMounter 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah mine is all self contained. The vent is at the back so I do polishing near an open window

@shawnietow2666 3 жыл бұрын

Your adorable 🥰 I love your approach and detailed explanations and how you don’t talk down to us! Thank you so much for sharing! Very thankful!

@Anatomic6 Жыл бұрын

What kind of mask should I wear if the bench polisher I am using doesn’t have a built in ventilation system?

@davidlilly627 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Chris That's very useful, thanks. One question, do you wash/clean the item between mops?

@DiamondMounter 2 жыл бұрын

No I dont. It would take so much extra time to do that plus getting a ring wet in the ultrasonic isnt a good idea half way through polishing.

@davidlilly627 2 жыл бұрын

@@DiamondMounter Cheers Chris, good to know

@allanfink6138 2 жыл бұрын

I do wash jewelry between the different grits of polish - I was taught that if you polish with tripoli, then polish with rouge without washing the tripoli off, the tripoli residue will contaminate your rouge buff, and the tripoli will scratch your rouge polishing job, making kind of a "satin" finish, rather than a mirror finish. I also wash it again thoroughly at the finish. To wash it, I use a "jeweler's soap" made from ammonia and liquid dish soap/detergent. I don't put it in the ultrasonic, I just use a very soft toothbrush. The jewelers soap is also good at getting the tripoli and rouge off your fingers, and other gear, because it cuts the grease. The ammonia does smell bad tho. Polishing is a process of taking out rough scratches by making finer scratches, so you move from rough grits to finer grits. Not cleaning the rough polish off before going to the finer polish seems like taking a step backwards, to me. But I have not made as much jewelry as Chris has, so...different opinions. So this is just my two cents.

@TomT586 2 жыл бұрын

Great videos. Can you tell me, is Dialux polish safe for diamonds?

@DiamondMounter 2 жыл бұрын

Yes no problem on diamonds

@bjkhope8048 2 жыл бұрын

how does a jeweler polish a 2mm gold chain? is it done the same way? sorry for my bad english

@LujosElPhoenix 10 ай бұрын

To get a mirror finish on a 1911 firearm , do I gotta sand it from 1k -8k. The polish ?

@lusciousjewels21 2 жыл бұрын

What is the effect of green or Red wax?

@BoredT-Rex Жыл бұрын

i am just starting out making my own jewlry. however, i am worried that i will not be able to buff and polish deep intricacies. how would you recommend doing this.

@DiamondMounter Жыл бұрын

You can get mini brushes that are used in a drill

@RR-ez9zs 3 жыл бұрын

When using a Dremel what speed should it be set to when using Tripoli and when using Rouge?

@DiamondMounter 3 жыл бұрын

I dont know about dremel. Most polishing machines just run at 1 speed. Quite fast

@allisternoble8349 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Chris love your videos and find them very informative. But this one has me a bit worried. You are so precise and careful in your other videos but in this one you are mixing mops with different polish grades in the same container and not cleaning between different grades of polish. I have always thought that if you go from one grade to another without cleaning you can contaminate mops from both piece and hands, which can result in a diminished finish. What are your thoughts on this?

@DiamondMounter 3 жыл бұрын

Probably sounds sensible to be more careful to not mix up the mops and polish but as for cleaning inbetween stages of polishing Ive never heard of anyone doing that.

@lusciousjewels21 2 жыл бұрын

Why do you apply green wax?

@shelterskelter 2 ай бұрын

My hard and fast is based on material. In silver, 400 800 1200 sanding then green rouge and then red rouge. White gold file, 400 grit, 800, 1500, green rouge, black rouge. Yellow. Same as silver but you can just do 400 800 and then green and red rouge.

@lbproductions8374 2 жыл бұрын

can you polish with adapter

@user-ti1fc7gu8n 25 күн бұрын

❤

@parnian_8511 2 жыл бұрын

How do you wipe the rouge off silver jewelry crevices?I tried using a toothbrush and dish soap but it doesn't clean the crevices of the piece I also tried using a silver cleaner liquid but it didn't work either😭

@Nxo_gems Жыл бұрын

Ultrasonic cleaner

@zainabchase6903 10 ай бұрын

I took some stained silver jewellery to the shop and they used this white powder to clean it but wouldn't tell what it was. Anyone here have any idea what that stuff is?

@ligitaurbonaite517 3 жыл бұрын

Hey! If I see stain marks on the piece of silver jewellery after polishing? What am I doing wrong?:)

@8866ryfxd 3 жыл бұрын

Cover your whole piece with flux before anealing and soldering, stain marks are just cuprous oxides which are created when you heat up the piece to the right temperature, flux prevents oxidation. Ofcourse remember do pickle the piece, most of the times 30% sulphuric acid works best. If done right you would get very little stain marks. Stain marks can be polished out with more abrasvie pastes (e.g. green paste).

@CONEHEADDK 3 жыл бұрын

Heard someone say something about to much heat from the polishing, but prehaps only on lower grade silver. I've had the probl on things made from sterling silver spoons.

@8866ryfxd 3 жыл бұрын

@@CONEHEADDK that is right, silver cutlery was / is usually made out of 800 silver alloy. So the more copper in alloy the more cuprous oxides will be created. Polishing won’t heat up the piece to a point where copper would start oxidizing.

@CONEHEADDK 3 жыл бұрын

@@8866ryfxd Don't know why, I called it Sterling. Here in Denmark I've only seen 830, called 3-tower, with 3 tower stamps.

@DiamondMounter 3 жыл бұрын

Like dull grey patches? Its called fire scale or fire stain. Silver is prone to it. The black bristle brushes with tripoli compound polish removes it quite well. Basically just polish over it harder!

@paulmitchell6755 6 ай бұрын

Drill press is the terminology

@johnbday4764 3 жыл бұрын

Many of us couldn’t afford that polishing unit

@kin4351 3 жыл бұрын

What’s that got to do with the video, he’s showing you how to get a good finish not how to save up for a polishing motor.

@johnbday4764 3 жыл бұрын

@@kin4351 yes with that unit

@CONEHEADDK 3 жыл бұрын

But we all could afford some beat up cord drill (mine are faster than my batteri ones) and clamp it to something, and put a cardbord box around it with a vacum cleaner attached.

@kin4351 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnbday4764 John, you don’t need that unit it’s not even a particularly good one, as Chris said it lacks the torque of a good unit. More importantly, it was the process of doing a lot of work pre polishing that was good advice. I’ve been a jobbing jeweller for thirty eight years and still learnt the odd thing from this channel. Don’t get tied up with needing this or that tool, it’s your attention to detail that will make the difference.

@gabrielkirkbaca2910 3 жыл бұрын

@@kin4351 try and be understanding , john b , before I got a polishing machine , I did all my polishing with my flex shaft. Takes time, but gets the job done

@jacksonhoward643 2 жыл бұрын

Why do my bronze rings keep tarnishing so quickly after I polish like

@DiamondMounter 2 жыл бұрын

Iv never worked with bronze i dont know much about it sorry

@allanfink6138 2 жыл бұрын

Bronze and brass are both alloys made out of copper, zinc, and tin. Bronze has more tin so it is harder and more brittle than brass. But it is the copper in the bronze that is tarnishing. Tarnish is copper's form of oxidation, similar to how iron objects oxidize or "rust". There are many things in the air that will cause tarnish, including moisture and air pollution, so it is kind of a losing battle to put a very highly polished shine on copper, bronze or brass objects, UNLESS you master the art of "patina". Patina is the art of using chemicals to control the oxidation of copper/brass/bronze objects. For instance the Statue Of Liberty in New York City is copper, but it has a blue/green patina. You can research "patina on copper and bronze" and find many colorful examples. Some art craft fair jewelers have had some luck dipping their copper/brass/bronze works in lacquer, (clear fingernail polish) which will keep the air off the polished finish, but lacquer is not permanent and will wear off over time.