Arnaud Van Tilburgh
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To illustrate the use of diamond powder on a leather lap.
I didn't invent this wheel and it seems 50% of you use the powder your whole carreer, so why didn't anyone tell us?,.. :justkidding:
I use different ways to do these kind of stone setting, this was the first time I did it this way.
The up blown photo shows the cuts I made using a “knife onglette” (I do not know the name of this graver).
I use face 65° on a 1200 grid diamond lap. After that just polished the face and sides. Not only to have a bright cut, but it also helps the graver tip not breaking so many times.
This is probably because all on the graver is a bit rounded by doing that and it takes only a few strokes to polish the graver.
The whole setting is cut by the use of that one graver.
For setting the stones, I used a bead tool nr8, just a bit bigger that I shortened 1/3 and put into a collet that fits the hand piece.
Putting the stones in, then just a bit hammering so the bead tool rounds the top and gets a bit wider on top, like a fungus.
Last I used the leather diamond to polish the beads by hand, was done in 15 seconds.
The diamonds are 0.03ct (2mm)
arnaud
I know this is bigg, but otherwise you don't see it. click the images for even a bigger photo!
I didn't invent this wheel and it seems 50% of you use the powder your whole carreer, so why didn't anyone tell us?,.. :justkidding:
I use different ways to do these kind of stone setting, this was the first time I did it this way.
The up blown photo shows the cuts I made using a “knife onglette” (I do not know the name of this graver).
I use face 65° on a 1200 grid diamond lap. After that just polished the face and sides. Not only to have a bright cut, but it also helps the graver tip not breaking so many times.
This is probably because all on the graver is a bit rounded by doing that and it takes only a few strokes to polish the graver.
The whole setting is cut by the use of that one graver.
For setting the stones, I used a bead tool nr8, just a bit bigger that I shortened 1/3 and put into a collet that fits the hand piece.
Putting the stones in, then just a bit hammering so the bead tool rounds the top and gets a bit wider on top, like a fungus.
Last I used the leather diamond to polish the beads by hand, was done in 15 seconds.
The diamonds are 0.03ct (2mm)
arnaud
I know this is bigg, but otherwise you don't see it. click the images for even a bigger photo!
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