[Jewelry making - Article 00005] - Re: [Orchid] Green Gold Question restated

[Peter W. Rowe]

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>     What I would I like feedback on is personal recipes for alloying
>     24kt to produce as strong a green as possible. 

    For my own uses, I've always used just silver and gold, nothing else.
     But that's partly based on wanting an easy to make alloy, who's
    scraps are easily incorporated back into other alloys. 

    One of my favorite references for gold alloys is an old 1929 book
    titled "Gold Alloys", by british author George Gee.  He's got a table
    of various colors of gold alloy used in those "floral" and other
    multicolored pieces where the color of the golds used was more
    important than the actual karat.  

    Here are the various Green's he lists.  I've not tried them, but here
    they are...  Au=Gold, Ag=silver,Cu=copper, CD=Cadmium 

    Green - 750 Au, 250 Ag (also listed elsewhere in the book for "fancy
    work") Dead Leaf Green - 700 Au, 300 Ag Water Green - 600 Au, 400 Ag
    Greenish Yellow - 917 Au, 083 Ag Green - 750 Au, 167 Ag, 083 Cd Dark
    Green 750 Au, 118 Ag, 090 Cu, 042 Cd Pale Green 750 Au, 125 Ag, 125 Cd
    18K Green for enamelling - 750 Au, 212 Ag, 038 Cu 


Hope these help.

Peter Rowe 

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