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I loved experimenting with this technique. Unfortunately I didn't have any luck with the technique on sterling silver, I also tried etching it with the same solution but using the rectifier and that didn;t work either. Perhaps I didn;t give it enough power. The metals that it did work on was *copper...
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Hello friends, I make jewelry out of ancient and irreplaceable old coins pre 400 AD. What is the best and fastest way to clean bronze, copper, silver & gold. any help would be most welcome. Ripley
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I'm so much the novice working with metals, but couldn't you use the new Argentium Silver since it doesn't tarnish -- a new form of this metal is becoming available everytime I turn around, so I kind of think you could find whatever you might need -- try Rio Grande.
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Hi All, I'm failry new at this. Have made several simple silver rings and now want to add a brass design strip on top of the silver ring. actually 2 strips, so can I use hard silver for the first and then medium for the second and them form the ring and use soft for the fille seam on the ring band...
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I just tumbled polished some silver focal beads that I believe are Thai silver. They came out sort of greyish-bluish and shiny, not the shiny silver color I expected. I have polished lots of silver in my tumbler with stainless steel shot and Dawn dish liquid and it has come out beautifully. Is there...
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Hello, I would like to introduce to you my art, my jewelry. Currently I live in Los Angeles where I design and make everything. I have always been inspired by nature (of course). You can see that in many of my pieces. I love textures and contasts of colors. I love everything in art that provokes me and...
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Hello all. I am very new in this world, I register in this forum cos one of my client is a jeweller, my company do web design( my client website : http://www.silver-thailand.com/ ). I'm trying to find general knowledge, to help with my designing idea. If I don't fit here, please let me know.
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Normal 0 21 Hi Aspin, I accompany to Mame. If you start enamelling, start with copper and a good book. If you want to enamel Sterling silver with transparent enamels, you have at first to prepare the surface of the Sterling in a special way. Otherwise the transparent enamel can become dull! I think the...
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hi my name is tom, i live in jersalem israel, end i study design i specialize in creating two formats with my 3d program (solidworks) which you can use. the first format you can use (for rapidprototiping) when you want to print a 3d wax object which you can later on use for casting all kinds of metals...
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I live in Devon in the UK close to the sea and I love reticulating silver. Having started metalsmithing just over a year ago it's taken me some time to produce pieces that I'm pleased with, but I'm getting there. I usually try to set the pieces with found sea glass which I pick up on my local...
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