Recent content by Dani Girl
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looks a bit better in photos than in person. I might be overcooking the rhodium maybe, looks a bit dark grey on mine vs my wedding rings so the cats white belly looks way darker than the 14k yellow grass... after the oil paint though it all rounded out a bit. anyone know the tempt to warm...- Dani Girl
- Post #170
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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- Post #169
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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this might be something folk have considered. say I want an absolute drop dead gorgeous mirror polish on my engraved piece. polish first right? but I slip, I have to repare and sand and polish etc. what's the best way of getting a mirror finish on/back on a piece without rounding off or...- Dani Girl
- Post #168
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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having a good run with plating so far. I had my positive and negative backwards and turned a silver ring black in the degreaser. today I tried to plate copper and turned it slightly nickel coloured, etched when it went in polishedand burned and green. what the heck. :)- Dani Girl
- Post #167
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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something I assume in my plating equipment turns skin brown. something fascinating happened in the ultrasonic. I had it on the degass setting which I don't really know how it's different to the semiwave setting. anyway it pulled all the oil paint that had had over a week to set up out of the...- Dani Girl
- Post #165
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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yes I had positive and negative backwards- Dani Girl
- Post #164
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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in other news I'm getting closer on this one. half a dozen beads fell off. brass doesn't like being nudged sideways. I haven't tried the hart bur method yet and what I did today with the finishing touch to get the stones in being a spin of a 1.3mm round bur in a pin vice by hand did allow...- Dani Girl
- Post #163
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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so I went to try some plating for the first time again today. last time I near lost the use of a hand trying to see how a lid was supposed to fit the beaker which I guess I had upside down or tried to fit too deeply and smashed the beaker. today I went from the ultrasonic with copper tongs...- Dani Girl
- Post #162
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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- Post #161
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- Post #158
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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- Post #157
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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does anyone know where on earth to buy cz pr any kind of stones smaller than .7mm?- Dani Girl
- Post #152
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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Thankyou Doug. I look forward to trying another of these referring to your words and some videos of people doing it impeccably as I go. I only set the pink stones in this ring, the white were there when I bought it. ok so the groove down the middle goes depth wise about half way between the...- Dani Girl
- Post #151
- Forum: Hand Engraving Forum
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