[Jewelry making - Article 00501] - Re: [Orchid] Holding metal while finishing

[Lauren]

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>     If somehow your skin should "catch", it will tear. Bloody, perhaps,
>     but probably quite minor. 

    I never use gloves, but I was polishing a platinum ring on an inside
    ring felt buff years ago. The ring had multi raised heads with
    prongs. I pushed it onto the buff a little too far, and platinum
    tends to grab onto a buff very easily unlike gold or silver. It
    wedged, pulled my fingers around the buff with it, and in a flash,
    the prongs ground the flesh off my middle finger before I could stop
    the arbor with my other hand. It looked like someone had taken a
    melon baller to my finger, a perfect scoop of flesh gone. That took
    almost a year before it finally filled back in, and I have no
    fingerprint there. 

Lauren
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