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Category: Technical Articles 2002

Dorothy Cockrell

The jewellers among us are accustomed to producing the final shine on our work by rubbing it down with 'Diagrit or carborundum, filling in the dips with more enamel, rubbing down for a second time and then firing it to produce an even shiny surface. We may have noticed that some American enamellers achieve a particularly even and lustrous shine, but assumed it to be the effect of their enamels or superior skill.

However, at the American Enamelist Conference last October, all became clear - they rub down the final firing with ‘wet & dry’ and then polish it. Don Viehman gave a fascinating ‘break out’ session on "The Surface Finishing of Enamels". Finishing a piece properly should take as long as enamelling it in the first place and can be broken down into 5 stages:

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