Drilling The interior Spaces for Making Jewelry

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How to drill interior spaces in the metal to make your own jewelry; get expert tips and advice on jewelry making tools and techniques in this free instructional video.

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Drilling The interior Spaces for Making Jewelry
I'm DJ Poye, professional Jeweler and Gemologist and I am here today on behalf of Expert Village. Okay, the next stage will be to drill out what we just got finished punching. So, this is a hand held piece. It's called a Flexshaft or a fornum. The motor is placed high above so that the flex, the flexible shaft holds the hand piece that allows you to drill, it allows you to small buffing, small detailed things that you need. It comes with a chuck and it it opens up several different times that are actually very large to add different things in it because different things have different diameters on the base that you need to hold it to, hold onto. So, I already chose a drill to place in here, so you just place it in here okay? You can hold it, you don't really need to do too much to it, and you take the chuck and just, and just kind of crank it down until it's nice and taught. You don't need to do it too, too taught okay? Then the next thing is, once again burlife to allow the piece itself flow freer and there's no constrictions with the metal. You hold the piece again with your hand and you just kind of, add, add a kind of rotated mode kind of to get the hole started again, and then basically you just press down and there's your hole totally complete. You do the next one the same way, just kind of rotating a little bit to get the hole started, you don't want to take this drill and accidentally miss and skew it across the metal or you're going to have a problem. So you hold it, and then you punch down, and it's through again. Once again, burlife again, because we're cutting out pretty large holes here okay? Once again, a circular, see how you do? I'm glad it went through the center. You just push down and it comes out. You'll want to be really careful with that when you first start. You don't want to screw up like slipping on, on your drill there. This is a smaller piece, once you get a crank at the metal, then you can crank on down with it. You need to do that kind of fast. Okay, so there we have, we just got finished punching it with our punch right here which daps a small little hole into the metal which allows you to start the drilling process with your flexshaft and your fornum. Now we have four or five holes cut and now we're going to move the piercing again to remove those pieces of metal.

About the Expert

Expert: DJ Poye is a graduate Jeweler/Gemologist from Paris College. Her studies included fabrication of metal, lost wax casting, stone setting, jewelry design, and gemology. Read More

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