One possibility is to skip bright cutting and just pollish the bracelet. Let the background provide the bling and blacken the engraving as contrast. If you don't have a buffer, try Micromesh abrasive pads or sheets:
You can get a mirror finish with them. A bit expensive (compared to regular sandpaper), but they last a long time. They go from 1500 grit to 12000 grit! They work on metal, plastic, wood almost everything. In fact after polishing a painted finish with them once, I noticed that my fingertips were glossy! I have used them many times and got a better finish that I could get with jeweler's rouge on a buffer.:thumbs up:
Thanks for the tips and comments, I'm not exactlly sure which way I'll go yet but I gotta finish it today. Will try some camara pics and post finished.
Thanks everone I still have to polish the schield and put the name on. Then get my new metal former and see if I can work that. Well tomorror is another day.
Looks good Jim, perhaps you could use some chemical to blacken the copper and after that use a lap with 1000 or 1200 grit sandpaper so it will show up better.
Just my idea on your question.
Hi
Arnaud blackening is an option of last resort. I've tryed to highlight the leaves a bit and polished the shield where the name goes. Maybe that will be enough. I discovered that even our water wants to turn copper black. So finishing touches= scrub bent bracelet with lighter fluid then alcohol and spray with clear lacquer. Hope it works.
Jim
Looks good. I tend to like copper, something about the color when polished.
I'm curious as to which metal former you used, and any comments on it's use.