yea thatyea that i'm dj poye, professionaljeweler and gemologist, and i am here today on behalf of expert village. hi, we're backagain and the next phase for our small, but quite lovely pendant is hammering. i havemounted a rather large vise, a rolling mill and other things on this base that i had createdfor myself. but what we're going to be focused on is this hard stainless steel block, andit's higher for me to hammer. so i'm going to use it for a mandrill here, so i can beatthis piece of metal. i have this small little hammering hammer. and we're going to use thedapt part of it, not the flat part, okay. and i usually always hold them a little...somepeople really hold them way far back but i don't feel i can get a lot of control overit because i'm going to be doing it so small.
so what i want to do is i want to focus ina little bit to where i can i control the hammer and i'm going to hold it up a littlehigher here, okay. and then we're only going to hammer only the sides of the piece, righthere, only the sides of the piece, leaving the center sections, and the top part andthe little part down at the very bottom after we totally finish it, it will be totally bright.we're just going to add a little texture to it here, okay? you want to hold it too, andbasically what you do is you'll just come around here, and we'll just...you want togo ahead and overlap the hammering pitches on the piece itself. and it's okay, becausethat's what gives it that great texture is when you overlap the hammering marks on it.and then we'll move along the side over here.
and i'll do some on this side. when you getclose to a spot, you can slow it down a little bit. and like i said, you want to make surenone of the flat spots are left. you want to make sure that every little piece of thisneck piece that we're doing, that we're hammering, has got a pitch mark on it. okay. so everso often, put your hammer down and stop and really look at the piece itself and see ifthere's any flat parts that you missed. there's one little one over here that i missed, sowe'll hammer that little spot. sometimes it takes a couple of times to get it. but that'sthe beauty of, once again, doing a custom piece is that it is...you never really know,you have an idea of what the piece is going to turn out to look like but when you're manipulatingmetal, and you're manipulating this, it's
quite beautiful. i don't know what other professioni'd rather be in. love the smell of metal on my hands. so right now we'll stop and i'llfinish hammering the other side of it, and be back with you for the next stage.
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