[Jewelry making - Article 00047] - Re: [Orchid] Damascene gold overlay

[Donna Wilson]

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>      Can anyone tell me the process for damascene gold overlay.  

    Jerry, they still do damascene workmostly jewelry and plates, in
    Toledo, Spain and when I lived in Spain I used to watch the work in
    workshops.  They used a steel base and annealed it, which made it
    black, then they took tiny gravers and incised the designs into the
    steel using a pitch bowl. Once the design was the proper depth (and
    it's not very deep) the piece had high karat gold hammered into the
    design depressions. If you want to see some, e-mail me off list and I
    will send you scan.

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