If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Buffing Beads
Hi All,
Quick question. Anyone have any really nifty ideas for holding on to bead whilst you are buffing them?? I have scared the bejesus out of the dog and myself with flying beads that get kicked out of the buffer while I am trying to hold on to them. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks, Juanita http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAP...serid=rvnsbrk& include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=25BE Bay Items/B/A May fate bless us all according to our deeds. |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
I usually put my beads onto a cocktail stick or wooden BBQ skewer. If you
push them on really hard, they should stay in place! Hope this helps. -- Amanda http://mysite.freeserve.com/amanda_rose_designs http://www.picturetrail.com/amandarose1 "Juanita Floyd" wrote in message ... Hi All, Quick question. Anyone have any really nifty ideas for holding on to bead whilst you are buffing them?? I have scared the bejesus out of the dog and myself with flying beads that get kicked out of the buffer while I am trying to hold on to them. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks, Juanita http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAP...serid=rvnsbrk& include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=25BE Bay Items/B/A May fate bless us all according to our deeds. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
I put my bead on a piece of old coat hanger that I attached a cotton ball (super glued) onto the end. The wire part is about 4-6" long, just long enough to hold in my hand with my four fingers. I grip the wire like I'm grabbing it to pull it down but leave my thumb stuck out & positioned on the bead. (make a fist around the wire but leave your thumb out at a 90 degree angle) Then I can let the bead go if I want to & the cotton ball keeps it from flying off the end. I use a bench grinder with a cotton buffing wheel & it runs really fast. Smaller beads I use a lighter guage wire and just put masking tape on the end, and I usually polish 5-6 smaller beads at the same time. Large beads I do one at a time. The cotton ball works best for the larger ones because if you forget and let go of the bead with your thumb, it will whirl around against masking tape & get all gunked up with adhesive from the tape, no fun to clean off. I used to use an old ice pick, and stuck a cork on the end. But if you let the cork accidently hit the polishing wheel, it will pop off and there goes your bead! I had to come up with a better idea, because I popped the cork off once & in my attempt to quickly put the ice pick upright I stabbed my chin and then my hand. Big OUCHY!! (Sometimes I am the biggest klutz!! LOL) Hope this makes sense. It's often easier to show someone then it is to tell them. Also, FYI, someone told me to use a jewelers polishing wheel the ones with jewelers rouge in it. Well, it certainly made a mess of some really nice beads I made, so trust me the rouge just left black/brown ucky stuff all over the beads and I ended up painting them and letting the kids have them to play dress up with. Hope this helps, just my 2 cents worth. eliquint "Juanita Floyd" wrote in message ... Hi All, Quick question. Anyone have any really nifty ideas for holding on to bead whilst you are buffing them?? I have scared the bejesus out of the dog and myself with flying beads that get kicked out of the buffer while I am trying to hold on to them. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks, Juanita http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAP...serid=rvnsbrk& include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=25BE Bay Items/B/A May fate bless us all according to our deeds. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Also, FYI, someone told me to use a jewelers polishing wheel the ones with
jewelers rouge in it. Well, it certainly made a mess of some really nice beads I made, so trust me the rouge just left black/brown ucky stuff all over the beads and I ended up painting them and letting the kids have them to play dress up with. I've had the same results. Valerie Website: http://www.geocities.com/m2ir8/index.html RCB Member Links: http://www.geocities.com/m2ir8/professionallinks.html Submit your site! E-mail me for details! *Remove* spam block to reply. |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
I use a bamboo skewer, or just hold them in my fingers -- but then I
hate buffing beads and try not to do it often! Use a jeweler's WHEEL (cotton muslin) but NEVER the rouge. Polylmer clay is way too soft to need rouge, which is an abrasive and wax, and as you have learned, the two things are not compatible. In fact, the unstitched muslin wheels are better than the s titched ones, because the stitched ones tend to grind away the clay even though they are fabric. If you find things being grabbed by the wheel, first off be sure you are holding them in the lower front quarter of the wheel so they get pulled away from you. Then, unless you like tracking things grabbed from you down, I recommend putting an open cardboard box right behind the wheel. It helps collect the dust from the wheel so it doesn't spread quite as much, and if something gets grabbed, it lands in the box, not across the room. (I sometimes keep an old towel or something soft in the box to catch things and keep them from rolling or gettnig scratched.) Sherry Bailey |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
AD-Oct. 4-5, 2003 Knoxville, TN Appalachian States Intergalactic Bead Festival | Phineas T Beadd Director National Bead Society | Glass | 0 | October 3rd 03 03:56 PM |
AD-Knoxville, TN Oct. 4-5, 2003 Appalachian States Intergalactic Bead Festival | Phineas T Beadd Director National Bead Society | Glass | 0 | September 26th 03 02:12 PM |
AD-Sept. 6-7, 2003 Birmingham, AL Magic City Intergalactic Bead Festival | Phineas T Beadd Director National Bead Society | Glass | 0 | September 3rd 03 02:09 PM |
AD-New Orleans, LA August 9-10, 2003 Big Easy Intergalactic Bead Festival | Phineas T Beadd Director National Bead Society | Beads | 0 | August 6th 03 03:42 PM |
AD-Orlando, FL July 12-13, 2003 Florida Summer Classic Intergalactic Bead Festival | Phineas T Beadd Director National Bead Society | Glass | 0 | July 11th 03 06:28 PM |