[Jewelry making - Article 00892] - Re: [Orchid] Cloisonne Enameling on Cast Silver

[Allan Heywood]

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>     Do use fine silver for your castings, sterling will oxidize. 

    Amy, there are many applications for which fine silver is unsuitable
    because of its softness and lack of resistance to deformation - that
    is one of the main reasons why Sterling and similar alloys were
    developed and why they are used in (particularly) jewellery and
    hollow-ware.  It's a no-brainer to depletion-enrich ( NOT
    depletion-gild, which refers to gold exclusively; and NOT guild which
    is a group of like-minded individuals ) Sterling and similar alloys
    and it is quite beyond my understanding why professionally-cast
    Sterling is not more widely enamelled. 

Allan Heywood

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