Post by docone31 on Dec 7, 2004 22:38:33 GMT -5
Epoxy makes a great dopping tool. However when it is neccessary to transfer it is a bear.
Here is a trick.
Take your dop, wax the end and while it is still warm form it on the end of a plastic crutch tip. This will make a flat grooved point to index from. Take the stone to be cut and use two hour epoxy. Place epoxy on the stone, and the dop where the wax is flat.
Transferring now is fairly simple, within the simplicity that can be had from transferring.
Transferring, just heat the dop to be transferred, the heating will allow the stone to accept the wax and attach to the transfer dop.
The first dop can then be heated and the wax will soften. The epoxy is ground down with the cuts. The epoxy allows fragile stones to be dopped and transferred without destroying their treatments. Emeralds, oiling an example. Heating the stone to be dopped will burn the oil. Usually Linseed oil, or Canadian Balsam.
Try it, you will like it.
Here is a trick.
Take your dop, wax the end and while it is still warm form it on the end of a plastic crutch tip. This will make a flat grooved point to index from. Take the stone to be cut and use two hour epoxy. Place epoxy on the stone, and the dop where the wax is flat.
Transferring now is fairly simple, within the simplicity that can be had from transferring.
Transferring, just heat the dop to be transferred, the heating will allow the stone to accept the wax and attach to the transfer dop.
The first dop can then be heated and the wax will soften. The epoxy is ground down with the cuts. The epoxy allows fragile stones to be dopped and transferred without destroying their treatments. Emeralds, oiling an example. Heating the stone to be dopped will burn the oil. Usually Linseed oil, or Canadian Balsam.
Try it, you will like it.
