How To Clean Jewelry Files
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How to clean jewelry files. For flat surfaces use the flat file or the flat surface of the half round file. Recommended tools supplies. Use a 2 cut file for removing large amounts of metal and a 4 cut for fine trimming and shaping. My files were in direct contact with water and rusted. Watch this video and learn how chemically sharpen your metal files give it a try it really dose sharpen the file.
File card https amzn to 2dc7g0q in this brief video professor john ahr of the online jewelry academy shows you how to clea. Quick tip to show how i clean my jewelry files using a small steel cup brush. Because these pieces only have silver plated over the surface of another metal vigorous cleaning or submerging items in a liquid solution along with regular wear and tear can cause flaking. Look how shiny my jewelry came out.