How to process beeswax beads and how much are beeswax beads

It turns out that beeswax beads are made in this way, and it looks very simple, but it should be difficult to learn.

1.Beeswax is common is new.

Beeswax from the old beeswax, the new beeswax and white beeswax, chanterelle yellow beeswax, gold honey, gold honey, etc., in addition to some uncommon beeswax, such as green beeswax, blue beeswax, etc.; White beeswax is usually 800 1200 per gram, chanterelle yellow beeswax is usually 400 1000 per gram; Old beeswax is 1000 3000 per gram.

2.The resin is buried in the ground for hundreds of millions of years to form beeswax, and there are not many places that can produce beeswax, and because after many years of mining or some mines have been sealed, there are few new raw ores, and many people have begun to pay attention to the collection of amber, and then, amber is rising year by year. One is that it is difficult to get high-quality, and the other is that there are many synthetic and baked beeswaxes.

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Yes. The beeswax softens at 150-180 degrees Celsius, completely dissolves at 250-375 degrees Celsius, and burns above 375 degrees. Insoluble in water, soluble in ether, solubility 16-23%. The beeswax is boiled in a pot and melts as long as the temperature is above 250.

Identification method: 01Salt water test method: Amber density is between 14 (salt: water) in saturated brine, amber, light plastics and resins can float, ordinary plastics, glass, acrylic and bakelite sink.

02.Thermal test: the needle burns the inconspicuous part of the red thorn amber, and there is a faint pine fragrance. Bakelite and plastic emit a pungent odor and stick to the needle.

03.Knife cutting needle pick test: the paper cutter will cut the amber into a powder, the resin will fall off in pieces, the plastic will become a roll, and the glass will not be sharpened.

If you use a hard needle to prick amber at an angle of 20-30 degrees to the horizontal line, it will have a burst feeling and very fine powder, if it is a plastic or other substance with different hardness, it will either not be pricked, or it will be very sticky or even pierced into it.

04.Nail polish wash: Rub the amber surface repeatedly with a cotton swab with a dot and there is no noticeable change. Plastic and pressure and amber are the same, but resin and copal grease will be corroded without petrification, resulting in sticky pits, and rosin will slowly melt when soaked in the potion.

05.Feel: Amber is a neutral organic gemstone, it will not be very hot in summer, not too cool in winter, and very mild. Imitation with glass or chalcedony will have a very heavy feeling of ice.

06.Eye-to-eye scales: this is the most important method of identification in amber settings.

Popping amber generally has beautiful lotus leaf scales, which have different sensations when viewed from different angles, and the refractive intensity will not be the same, emitting a spiritual light. Fake amber is generally not very transparent, the scales emit a dead light, and it is almost the same when viewed from different angles, lacking the aura of amber. The scales and patterns in fake amber are mostly injected, so most of them are the same, and the most common on the market is red scales.

07.Eye-to-eye bubbles: The bubbles in amber are mostly round, and the bubbles in pressed amber are mostly oblong.

08.Ultraviolet radiation: Put the amber under the money detector, it will have fluorescence, light green, green, blue, white, etc. on it. Amber and golden amber have the most obvious discoloration, blood amber and beeswax discoloration is less obvious, the more transparent it is, the more obvious it is, and the plastic will not change color.

9.Fragrance: Amber has only a very faint smell that is barely audible when rubbed or simply cannot be smelled, but amber with skin produces fragrance when rubbed, and amber rubbing produces fragrance. Amber gives off a pine scent only when burned.

Amber contains beeswax, generally speaking, amber is said to be transparent called amber, opaque is called beeswax, raw materials are directly ground into beads is a bracelet, melted is synthetic or reconstituted amber, not a good thing.

Beeswax is amber and has nothing to do with honey

Tool preparation, table grinder, bead maker, sandpaper and punching tools.

Material selection, the most economical rough stone for polishing beads is close to round, but the proportion of such rough stones is very small, normal we choose ball material, which is close to the square, and then cut, chamfer, nest round.

Speaking of which, the shrewd handmade emperor will immediately find that the yield of the beads is very low, yes, if calculated according to the above figure, the standard cube square grain grinding, without any heterolysis and other losses, the yield is 52%.

However, it is impossible for the rough stones to be square, so the ideal yield from raw material cutting to the beads is 29%, which is also just ideal, and the actual situation is that the general yield of beads is not too large for the cracking situation and the thickness of the ore skin.

Pull back the talk, choose a good material, observe the internal spurt with a strong flashlight, the beads have high requirements for heterosis, a crack, you have to grind off a large circle of beeswax, very waste.

Cut, cut into cube-like cubes.

Grinding, chamfering, grinding off the edges and corners, trying to round and produce embryos.

On the dimple bead device, there are various models of dimple beads, use calipers to measure the minimum diameter of the beads, and select the corresponding standard dimple beads.

In the process of grinding, in addition to repairing the round, we should also pay attention to the cracks and try to remove them.

After repairing the circle, the punching and perforation of the beads are more troublesome, because it is not easy to achieve the symmetry of the center of the circle on both sides.

If there is a punching machine, it is best to go directly to the punching machine.

If you don't, you need to use a little trick.

Determine a point, punch 1 4 depth, fix the bead with a drill bit, rotate at medium speed, when the rotating bead ghost overlaps, and does not shake left and right, you can easily find the center of the circle, and mark.

Double-sided perforation, complete according to the principle of perforation.

Polishing, many people are quite afraid of the polishing of beads, worried that the polishing process will lose the roundness.

There is also a small trick here, roll the sandpaper into a round cylinder, put the balls into it and polish, you can avoid losing the roundness, but you still need to be patient and careful, sandpaper from low to high polish in turn.

The hole of the bead can also be polished, with a rope dipped in toothpaste or polishing paste, one end of the rope is bitten or fixed with teeth, the other end is straightened, and the bead is moved back and forth to polish the hole.

"Xuan Yufu" explains that you want to polish beeswax.

Beeswax processing.

Grinding and polishing.

How amber beeswax barrel beads are hand-polished:

1.The first is to select the rough stones, and find stones that are close to the shape of the barrel beads, so as not to cause unnecessary waste.

2.Once the rough is selected, it's time to peel it. I use a table grinder here to polish the jade, and if I don't have a table grinder, I can also manually peel it with sandpaper.

I am personally more accustomed to using 80-100 mesh flocking sandpaper sheets, and it is not recommended to use too thick sandpaper sheets, because if it is too coarse, some cracks after peeling are not visible. In the process of peeling, you should use a strong flashlight to look at it, and if there are cracks and impurities on the rough stone, you should continue to polish or cut off.

3.After removing the skin, it is necessary to repair the shape, and try to make the rough stone into a cylinder. This is a delicate job, and it cannot be rushed, otherwise if the shape is not repaired well, it will bring trouble to the polishing below, and the shape of the beads that come out is not beautiful.

I spend the longest amount of time on shaping up at a time, so we can talk to each other if we have a good idea.

4.After trimming the shape, the next step is to punch the holes. The most important thing to punch is to find the concentricity, it is best to draw two lines on the beads with a pencil to find the center of the circle.

I use a punch machine to punch holes, and if there is no punch machine, it is the same as using hand drilling, but the efficiency is slightly slower. Remember to expand the horn hole after punching the hole, so that it is not easy to crack when installing the fixing pin. (Use the spherical diamond grinding head in the picture below to have a large horn hole).

5.I use this six-edged fixed needle, which doesn't throw the beads out when the mill is spinning.

6.Fix the fixing needle on the chuck of the table mill, prepare a basin of water, and it is best to keep the beads on the water during the polishing process, one can reduce the temperature of the beads, and the other is to reduce the dust in the polishing process.

7.SandpaperThe German warrior sandpaper I chose, from 600 to 7000 mesh, I won't shoot them one by one here.

8.Polishing starts at 600 mesh. The first polishing is particularly crucial, be sure to polish off all the scratches on the beads, and repair the chamfers on both sides of the beads at this time.

During the polishing process, you can stop and observe whether the scratches on the beads have been removed, whether the chamfers on both sides are repaired consistently, if they are OK, change the sandpaper of 1000 mesh to continue polishing, and then throw it until 7000 mesh.

9.After throwing 7000 mesh, the gloss has basically reached the mirror standard. Wash the beads (it's best if you have an ultrasonic cleaner, even the holes can be cleaned) and dry them with a cloth, so that a bucket of beads is perfectly baked.