Pickling Jewelry With Sulfuric Acid

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How to pickle your hand made jewelry with sulfuric acid; get expert tips and advice on jewelry making tools and techniques in this free instructional video.

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Pickling Jewelry With Sulfuric Acid
I'm D J Poye, professional Jeweler and Gemologist and I am here for Expert Village. So the next stage that we'll go to, will be a pickling. And the pickling is actually a sulphuric acid and, and some warm water, and, a small container. I try to do, the jewelry industry is very difficult because they've got a lot of things that aren't green sustainable, so this is probably the only product that I really use. But if, if I have to remove it and get new, I always neutralize it with baking soda, and you could basically grow a tree out of it, after I get done with it. But, it's really the only way to clean the fire scale off the piece. And it sits in this small solution, it's heated and sits in the solution maybe twenty minutes or so. So we'll go put, putting that in, in the pickle and we'll be right back. You never want to touch any stainless steel to this solution at all, so you use bamboo tongs. And you also don't want to make sure when you drop it in there that you, it sprays out. So you just barely just put it in there. Now it will sit for awhile.

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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