Author: Jurgen M. Maerz

The tools needed for this job are a hammer, a flat-headed punch or a hammer hand piece for your flex-shaft, a small round burr, and some platinum wire: You will also need either; dog-leg style burnisher or a tungsten burnisher made from a burr, as well as a wire curter and a pair of needle-nose…

Editor’s Note: Working with platinum is unlike working with any other metal: It polishes differently, requires greater heat to work with, and is easily contaminated.