Polishing Your Hand-Made Jewelry Using a Tumbler and Tumbler Maintenance with Janet E Alexander

This is a newer edited video of the first tumbler movie. This video shows how to use the Lortone tumbler and perform some maintenance tasks on it. Use the tumbler with stainless steel shot to polish your fired metal clay, sterling silver, fine silver, gold, copper, brass, or any non-ferrous metals.
* Use Blue Dawn soap as a lubricant in with the stainless steel shot.
* Assembling the tumbler with water, steel shot, soap, and metal
* Watch out for shot stuck in the tumbler edge
* Closing the tumbler correctly so it doesn't open while tumbling
* Make sure the tumbler is level
* Tumble for thirty minutes and check your pieces
* How to open the tumbler, use the washer as a pry-tab around the lid
* Use a strainer separating the liquid from the shot
* Problems with hollow beads
* Dry shot completely before putting away
* Grease fittings maintenance
* Replacing the belt
Janet is an accomplished metal artist with her work published in several books and magazines including on the cover of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist; The Gemmys 2015, Contemporary Metal Clay Rings. Her creations can be found in Metal Clay in Color, American Craft Magazine, Metal Clay Artist Magazine, Contemporary Metal Clay Rings, Metal Clay 101 for Beaders, and in New Directions: Powder Metallurgy in a Sheet Metal World.
For the past several years she has taught adults metalsmithing at conventions and gem shows. As a writer she co-authored, Metal Clay in Color, has written many tutorials for books and magazines.
Janet is an accomplished metal artist with her work published in several books and magazines including on the cover of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist; The Gemmys 2015, Contemporary Metal Clay Rings. Her creations can be found in Metal Clay in Color, American Craft Magazine, Metal Clay Artist Magazine, Contemporary Metal Clay Rings, Metal Clay 101 for Beaders, and in New Directions: Powder Metallurgy in a Sheet Metal World.
For the past several years she has taught adults metalsmithing at conventions and gem shows. As a writer she co-authored, Metal Clay in Color, has written many tutorials for books and magazines.

[@terrapin52]

it seconds as a bead shot filler. :) This is a good demonstration. Thanks for the great vid!

[@Dharlanna]

Dang that's a lot of shot in that bead lol! Thanks, I have a Lortone too. :)

[@JanetAlexanderJewelry]

Thank you terrapin52!

[@LeciaWoessner]

Thank you Janet! I'm so glad that you are so thorough & you really cover everything! Ugh! I wish I could take some classes from you! You're just too far away!

[@RobynAllcock]

How should you have sealed the bead before tumbling? What would you use as the filler?

[@JanetAlexanderJewelry]

Sydney Calling You can put some wax (bees wax) into the opening. The later remove it by warming the bead.

[@JanetAlexanderJewelry]

In order to turn off the unit, it must be unplugged. Never work on something while it is plugged into electricity.