before you start using your felt wheel you should prep it and this is how to do it correctly so I'm simply going to take the felt wheel peel off the backing plate paper and place it on the jewel tool back pad so I want to line it up just like this before you press it just kind of take a nice little aerial view of what's happening make sure they're all aligned and firmly press make sure making sure every single fin if you will is making full contact to the backing plate now I'm going to sand this down using the purple that comes in many of your jewel tool kits or if you don't have the purple you can simply put a piece of sandpaper on a block of wood the objective is to get just a flat piece to hold it up against the felt wheel to make it flat so basically I'm going to hold it like this up against the felt wheel to make sure it's hands flat you run it up full speed and right now you're going to see a little bit of snowflakes and it's just natural wool so if you want you can wear a mask so I start off in the center and I gently lift it up I don't want to stand just on the eggs I want full surface hand and I like to touch it now I go home that doesn't feel that smooth let me do it one more time that feels nice and I'll just touch the edge a little make sure I get a nice and first and that's pretty much it Oh beautiful you don't have to press too hard while doing this but you just want to make sure it's even and you're done that's it now a great way to tell if you have done it properly is use some compound and see and make sure that the compound hits every single fin evenly and you're good to go but if you're a polymer clay user no compound necessary and you should be fine I'd like to show also how to prep your buff wheel and the proper way to put it so with the numbers up on top as you can see it's pre-drilled so it's going to give you a nice even spin so I just Bailey's put it on run it at full speed and again you can take your ninja dish whether you have the sandpaper on it and the objective is to fluff the edge you see even with my own finger I've been able to kind of wake up those little cotton fibers and brighten them up but we want to fluff it so I can either do it like this again a little bit more snowflakes or you can even just grab an empty blank back pad and you can just do this - the objective is to get some fluff going on and that's pretty much it so take a look at the buff and what you want to do is make sure it's got this beautiful fluff you see that now that's going to polish your metal or polymer clay beautifully and that's how you prep your buff and the felt wheel