CLEAN UP CLEAN UP, everybody do your share!

   Working in metals can be laborious and time consuming (of course) but it is always worth it! We can spend as much time cleaning up a piece of work as we spend designing and creating it. Clean up includes rough filing sharp edges/filled in air bubbles. 

   For this ring, filing it to fit a certain ring size can take a while! Also sanding the object with at least 3 different gradients of sand paper. And finally, polishing/stone setting.

Ok, so here is the freshly casted, ROUGH, soon-to-be-stone-set sterling display:

   

   

I used heavy-duty wire cutters to remove the "stand" or cast sprues from the ring. Then I used sanding mandrels and sandpaper to clean it up. As well as a rubber polishing mandrel afterwards to polish it up.