[Jewelry making - Article 00260] - Re: [Orchid] Blackening engravings on gold

[John Burgess]

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G'day Lyn;   There are several things you can use.

    1. If the gold is below 18 carat - contains copper - then you can
    immerse it in 'liver of sulphur solution', or 'lime sulphur' from
    gardening shops which will blacken the whole ring. The blackening is
    easily polished off in places where you don't want it. If the gold is
    18 carat or higher, then you will need to copper plate 

    it first by immersing it in used pickle together with a bit of iron,
    then immerse in the sulphide solution.  Polish off. Fine gold (the
    pure metal) does not react with many chemicals other than aqua regia 
     which dissolves it. Which is why gold is found as the metal
    (alloyed with other metals) and not as an ore. 

    2.Paint the engraving with good quality black enamel paint, allow to
    harden thoroughly then sand and polish off. 

    3.Coat the engraving with mixed 2 part epoxy resin coloured  with
    black or other colour of powder paint medium, sand and polish off. 

    4. Heat the item and flow niello into the engraving. Sand when cool
    and polish off. 

    5. Paint the item with gunmakers black and polish off. 

    The most durable of all these is niello; (difficult to get) next in
    line is the epoxy resin. 

-- 
Cheers for now,
John Burgess;   johnb AT ts.co.nz of Mapua Nelson NZ 

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