Product Description
Hone & Highlight™ Original Tumbling Medium by Rosy Revolver.
Tumbling media for rotary tumblers. Save immense time on finishing, and focus on making! If you make jewellery with depth, layers, pierced parts, castings, textures, or patterns, and patina, get ready to fall in love with Hone & Highlight!
Hone & Highlight™ is a dual product; it smoothes and refines metal while selectively removing patina from raised areas, creating a gorgeous contrasting matte finish.
H&H is created by Jess from Rosy Revolver. Jessica Jordan Coté is a southern silversmith from Fuquay Varina, North Carolina, USA. Largely self-taught in the realm of metal fabrication, she has been smithing full time since 2008 and teaching around the US since 2012. Jessica is the lone figure behind the brand Rosy Revolver, an unflinching line of feminine statement jewellery - and the person who gave us Hone & Highlight.
Hone & Highlight is a manmade product meant to emulate certain structures of naturally occurring silicon carbide. It will break down and round off as you use it, with no loss of performance. It will give your work a lovely soft matte finish (and if you want a higher polished finish you can follow up with steel shot).
H&H is meant for rotary polishing tumblers. Please check the weight capacity of your tumbler, to ensure the total weight of your water, media, and jewellery is within the limits of what your tumbler can cope with.
We recommend you designate a barrel to be used specifically with H&H only. Small abrasive particles can remain in the barrel after use, if you want to use the same barrel with steel shot it will require careful cleaning and rinsing between materials.
Hone & Highlight tumbling media will;
- smooth and refine edges and surfaces
- enhance detail
- achieve effortless contrast
- consistent results
- free up studio space, time, and money
- increase productivity
- matte finish
ORIGINAL OR MINI?
Available in two types, Original and Mini Media. Mini Media is smaller so reaches tighter recesses, has finer grit so is less aggressive, and it will give more of a satin sheen (rather than matte) finish. The Mini Media is probably the first option to try if you are a metal clay artists.
Read more about the HONE & HIGHLIGHT MINI MEDIUM here.
IS H&H RIGHT FOR ME?
- H&H works exceptionally well on pieces that are layered, have depth, embellishments, texture, and pattern. Some techniques that respond beautifully to H&H include; etchings, castings, hammered textures, layers of sheet, piercings, reticulation, press form, sand castings, shot plate accents, roll will textures, rivets and pins, textured chains.
Examples of work that do not work very well with H&H:
- very delicate chains (1mm or less in diameter)
- serrated bezels (does not ruin bezel but will remove/round off the tips)
- pieces that do not require patina or where patina is not desired
- rough castings in need of being cleaned up
- designs that (prior to tumbling) contain stones, beads, glass, enamel, etc.
- If you don't patina your work H&H might not the product for you as removing patina you'd be foregoing one of the primary purposes H&H serves.
- If you're a seasoned metalsmith or have perfected your finishing efficiently, you might find H&H isn't as artistically fulfilling as it removes a part of your process
PLEASE READ THE FAQ AND INCLUDED INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USE.
