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Summary: How to sand the safety pin for making jewelry from recycled parts; get expert tips and advice on tools and techniques for hand made jewelry in this free instructional video.
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About the Expert
Joe Maughan Joe Maughan is a second-generation jeweler with over 15 years experience in the jewelry industry. Joe is the owner of "The Vug" jewelry store in Salt Lake Ci... read more
Hi, I'm Jason. Today I'm filming on behalf of expertvillage.com. We are now going to use the dremel to sand the edges on the clasp so they don't poke and scratch you when you're wearing it. I've taken a bit that will fit in the dremel, put through the eye of the clasp and I'm going to hold it with the back of my thumb on an angle so that it won't go anywhere while I'm grinding. This is kind of hard to see but it won't go. The only place it could go is down and up. It can't come out so we're going to take the dremel again and if you're comfortable holding the dremel and grinding with right hand, do that hold it with the left. If you're left handed or the other way around. You want the most, the hand that you have most control with with the dremel. So we're just going to really quickly just take the edges off of those. We're going to use a low speed this time. Now it still sticks out but the ends are smooth now. They shouldn't cut you any more. They're rounded off so even though they're overlapping, you won't, nobody will see that when you have it on your neck, but the ends are dull. They won't, they're now rounded, they won't cut you. So, next we will kind of assemble the beads and do coloring and a few things on the beads and then we'll get ready to assemble.