How Do You Get A Good Impression With A Rolling Mill? What Is Safe To Use? 

you are a breath of fresh air to me as I have been a traditional Jeweller for over 50 years and am now learning different ideas from you I wish you could come to New Zealand and have some classes here also I now use some peweter as it is cheap and you get deeper impressions and an idea for you is to use .5mm gasget paper and cut impressions in it they look different and very sharp

I had too much pressure using a texture plate and my top gear in my mill slipped. I had to take my mill apart to reseat it. I thought I had wrecked it. Now I’m ready to try again using your tips. Thank you!

This video for me has been one of those RU-vid recommended videos that come out of the blue for no reason and I am SO glad I clicked on it and watched! So very interesting and a technique I never really thought about much before. All your impressions came out just beautifully and left me so impressed!

THANK YOU!!! I have a new rolling mill and was not happy with the results. After watching this video and following your direction on proper usage I am so excited and have rolled about every texture in my home! Beautiful results! WoooHooo!!!

Thank you, for your detailed explorations, very helpful.

very helpful I learned alot and think I might try it with Lace. I have alot of that to choose from.some thinner and some thicker. thanks see you soon.

Excellent information. You are the greatest at describing techniques and tools based on your experience.

Thank you Melissa. Very helpful. Just got a Pepe Tools rolling mill, but haven't used it yet. You answered a lot of my questions here.

This is really informative video, just what I needed to know and answered all of the questions I had. Thank you so much!!

Excellent demo, thank you, Melissa! By the way, that blue shirt is a very pretty color on you!

Thank you for great very nice tutorial you are fantastic

I needed this!

Thanks Melissa, I just got my mill this will help me not mess up my rollers. I was using too much pressure on mine.

great video, BUT you forgot one thing, if you turn the knob backwards, there is freeplay in both the gears and the thread of the roller's bearings so if you don't move a lot, before changing direction the roller DOESN'T move,as the freeplay is taken up!!, just like in all precision dials on machine axis, move one direction, and if you go too far back up 1/4 turn, then aproach the position from the SAME direction, ie: either left/right, or up/down. but learn the tool, what backlash it has, and tune it up at intervals if it becomes too loose!!, an indication of wear on parts!!

Thank you so very much for sharing all your knowledge!

Great video Melissa! Now I can watch this again once I have unboxed my new pepe rolling mill I purchased from you!!!! I’m so excited 😀

thank you Melissa Muir

This was so informative. Thank you!

Thanks, Melissa!

Thanks.

Awesome. Thanks!

Love your video tutorials and tips! Thanks! : )

Great job Melissa ! Thanks for posting this. I'm sure it will help many people. I love using my Pepe rolling mill ! :)

Thanks for sharing this. Wonderful

Excellent as always!

Thanks so much - another great video!

Great video and your hair looks terrific. Ordering my Pepe this next week. So excited.

Wonderful video Thanks

You're the best!! Great Video so helpful all of the time!!

Your video is very educational for me, I have one of the small PepeRolling machine. My biggest problem is that almost every time when I go to turn though the handle it goes a little easier hard and then it stops and I have to wiggle it and then start again, and it doesn’t seem to be giving me much of a pattern. I’m going to try some of the things that you recommended and I have a question about the plates, I have a very thick one that I really love so I ordered it, I don’t want to use it in my roly machine can I use my press? God Bless thanks. Deborah

Did you make the brass plate with a steel one first or are they available for purchase somewhere? Steel is too much for me right now!

Love your lesson on the use of the mill

What gauge is your annealed metal?

Hiya Melissa, Thank you for a great video, very helpful. Those rollers were so shiny, have you done a maintenance video that I've missed? If not please could you do one? I want the same... Steve...

I’m confused. Why do you use the extra paper sometimes and not others?

Hi Melissa, great video, thank you. You didn’t use the thick steel plate, is that because it wouldn’t fit or another reason? I’m on the fence about purchasing a Pepe because I have many of these thick steel plates and want to be sure I can use them in my mill and I know the big question is: ‘will it open large enough to accommodate them’? If yours doesn’t, can you suggest one that does? Thanks again, your videos are extremely helpful, and easy to watch 😊

Do you think laser engraved photo mat paper would work? Since it's a bit thick, you co hi le get a deep laser engraving. Your thoughts?

Thank you great information...👍🇨🇦

Hi Melissa, can you tell me is it possible to create a beautiful design on sterling silver and then cut it with a pancake die? Or are patterned metals through a rolling mill meant to go into disc cutters. I'm really struggling to try to get a good deep pattern into my metal and then cut it with a pancake die. I am using 22 gauge metal in sterling silver.

You’re not concerned that tha=e brass plate will damage the roller?

Great video! what mill are you using?

One question though, what about rolling leaves and plants that still have some green life in them? Could you roll them as long as they were sandwiched so that the moisture didn't get through to the rollers? Would they leave a good imprint?

I want to texture flattened silverware. Can a rolling mill do that with press plates?