Hammering A Piece Of Hand Made Jewelry: Part 1
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Hammering A Piece Of Hand Made Jewelry: Part 1
yea thatyea that I'm DJ Poye, professional Jeweler and Gemologist, and I am here today on behalf of Expert Village. Hi, we're back again and the next phase for our small, but quite lovely pendant is hammering. I have mounted a rather large vise, a rolling mill and other things on this base that I had created for myself. But what we're going to be focused on is this hard stainless steel block, and it's higher for me to hammer. So I'm going to use it for a mandrill here, so I can beat this piece of metal. I have this small little hammering hammer. And we're going to use the dapt part of it, not the flat part, okay. And I usually always hold them a little...some people really hold them way far back but I don't feel I can get a lot of control over it because I'm going to be doing it so small. So what I want to do is I want to focus in a little bit to where I can I control the hammer and I'm going to hold it up a little higher here, okay. And then we're only going to hammer only the sides of the piece, right here, only the sides of the piece, leaving the center sections, and the top part and the little part down at the very bottom after we totally finish it, it will be totally bright. We're just going to add a little texture to it here, okay? You want to hold it too, and basically what you do is you'll just come around here, and we'll just...you want to go ahead and overlap the hammering pitches on the piece itself. And it's okay, because that's what gives it that great texture is when you overlap the hammering marks on it. And then we'll move along the side over here. And I'll do some on this side. When you get close to a spot, you can slow it down a little bit. And like I said, you want to make sure none of the flat spots are left. You want to make sure that every little piece of this neck piece that we're doing, that we're hammering, has got a pitch mark on it. Okay. So ever so often, put your hammer down and stop and really look at the piece itself and see if there's any flat parts that you missed. There's one little one over here that I missed, so we'll hammer that little spot. Sometimes it takes a couple of times to get it. But that's the beauty of, once again, doing a custom piece is that it is...you never really know, you have an idea of what the piece is going to turn out to look like but when you're manipulating metal, and you're manipulating this, it's quite beautiful. I don't know what other profession I'd rather be in. Love the smell of metal on my hands. So right now we'll stop and I'll finish hammering the other side of it, and be back with you for the next stage.
yea thatyea that I'm DJ Poye, professional Jeweler and Gemologist, and I am here today on behalf of Expert Village. Hi, we're back again and the next phase for our small, but quite lovely pendant is hammering. I have mounted a rather large vise, a rolling mill and other things on this base that I had created for myself. But what we're going to be focused on is this hard stainless steel block, and it's higher for me to hammer. So I'm going to use it for a mandrill here, so I can beat this piece of metal. I have this small little hammering hammer. And we're going to use the dapt part of it, not the flat part, okay. And I usually always hold them a little...some people really hold them way far back but I don't feel I can get a lot of control over it because I'm going to be doing it so small. So what I want to do is I want to focus in a little bit to where I can I control the hammer and I'm going to hold it up a little higher here, okay. And then we're only going to hammer only the sides of the piece, right here, only the sides of the piece, leaving the center sections, and the top part and the little part down at the very bottom after we totally finish it, it will be totally bright. We're just going to add a little texture to it here, okay? You want to hold it too, and basically what you do is you'll just come around here, and we'll just...you want to go ahead and overlap the hammering pitches on the piece itself. And it's okay, because that's what gives it that great texture is when you overlap the hammering marks on it. And then we'll move along the side over here. And I'll do some on this side. When you get close to a spot, you can slow it down a little bit. And like I said, you want to make sure none of the flat spots are left. You want to make sure that every little piece of this neck piece that we're doing, that we're hammering, has got a pitch mark on it. Okay. So ever so often, put your hammer down and stop and really look at the piece itself and see if there's any flat parts that you missed. There's one little one over here that I missed, so we'll hammer that little spot. Sometimes it takes a couple of times to get it. But that's the beauty of, once again, doing a custom piece is that it is...you never really know, you have an idea of what the piece is going to turn out to look like but when you're manipulating metal, and you're manipulating this, it's quite beautiful. I don't know what other profession I'd rather be in. Love the smell of metal on my hands. So right now we'll stop and I'll finish hammering the other side of it, and be back with you for the next stage.
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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