Comments on: Tumbling Your Jewelry

By: John

John — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:35:18 +0000

I use the plastic pellets they use for filler in the drums when you do not have enough product for your drum. To polish copper wire. Besides cleaning the the sculpture it will also knock off the burs. Down side it – takes about a week in a tumbler.

By: Dot

Dot — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:42:52 +0000

Craig, I would suggest that you not tumble if you have real thin or delicate pieces. I have seen tumbling done with thin silver clay pieces and sometimes parts break off.

By: dalecgr

dalecgr — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:36:50 +0000

You are so welcome D. Rouge is more than messy!

By: D.Doody

D.Doody — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:28:22 +0000

Thanx for the article. I’m now ready to get this tumbler going. I have made about 2 dozen pieces for the spring shows and am new at tumbling. I have had all I can take of rouge on the walls and floors. I got my tumbler on friday and will get it up and running by monday morning. I feel confident that I will be an expert in no time at all.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:30:21 +0000

Thank you for the information…I am just starting out and had no idea that you could tumble items to harden them. I really hate the extra expense to start off with, but oh well, you gotta do what you gotta do! I do wonder though, how harsh is it going to be on my fine art pieces with thin and/or delicate areas? I hope it won’t be too costly to find out.

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By: Nancy Keane

Nancy Keane — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:09:46 +0000

Excellent article. One caution,though: be sure to use only ORIGINAL Dawn (the blue Dawn.) I was warned about that and have had no problem, but others have used different types of Dawn with not-so-good results.

Also, as you know, you only need a small squirt.

I would be lost without my tumbler! It’s amazing how beautiful jewelry looks after tumbling!

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