[Jewelry making - Article 00524] - Re: [Orchid] Using stainless steel shot

[Judy Hoch]

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    Judy - Using stainless steel shot will make stuff shiny and can
    be used with set stones of some kinds - however ....... don't
    confuse shiny with polished.  When you rouge a piece on the buff,
    if you don't do the bobbing and tripoli, you get shiny but not
    smooth finish.  Stainless only makes shiny, not smooth.  I've
    seen some set glass cabs tumbled with stainless in small rotary
    tumblers.  what they look like is that someone tumbled them -
    they don't look finished.  As to what kind of stones, tough is
    better than hard, cabs better than faceted.  It is so simple to
    set after doing a complete job of tumbling, ie: abrasive(s),
    burnishing (that's the stainless part), and then a session in a
    buffing compound of wood chips, pegs and some kind of polishing
    compound - iron oxide for karat gold, chrome oxide for silver or
    simichrome for either.  There is a book on the subject - "Tumble
    Finishing for Handmade Jewelry" -$12 from Rio Grande
    Albuquerque.  No I wouldn't do turquoise in a tumbler unless it
    is stabilized, plasticized and probably not very good stuff. 
    Judy Hoch 

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