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From: Allan Heywood Date: Fri Mar 07 21:46:09 2003 |
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========[ Invite a Friend - http://www.ganoksin.com/invite.htm ]======== Peter, I'm coming to believe I should have kept my mouth shut for a bit longer on this one. I appear to have let my belief substitute for knowledge in re the legalities of the Sterling standard - not a very scientific approach <g> and one I don't have a lot of time for. Without wishing to grovel overly much at this stage, I'd like to say that my concern was only that the "you can't enamel Sterling silver castings successfully" myth was being perpetuated here on Orchid. I've spent the thick end of 20 years trying to correct that belief in Australia. If, as you and others have pointed out, in the U.S. Sterling silver is legally "anything that contains a minimum of 92.5% silver" then I now understand why few of your enamellers can get it to work ! Over the years I've tested the suitability of the major deox/bright silver alloys for vitreous enamelling ( samples of a couple of the next generation of alloys as recently as a few months ago ). Some of this type of alloy can be enamelled ( i.e. the enamel will fuse to the metal and not delaminate ) but all that I have come across have problems of one sort or another that make them unsuitable for quality vitreous enamelling. It will be interesting to see what posts are made in re the laws regarding Sterling in the various jurisdictions - I still believe <g> that dogs aren't cats. cheers Allan ____________________________________________________________________ T h e O r c h i d L i s t Open Electronic Forum for Jewelry Manufacturing Methods and Procedures ____________________________________________________________________ Orchid FAQ: ~ http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/faq.htm Orchid Archives: ~ http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/archive Orchid Galleries: ~ http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/gallery.htm Invite a Friend: ~ http://www.ganoksin.com/invite.htm ____________________________________________________________________ Tips From The Jeweler's Bench - Article Archive ~ http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/tip_sear.htm The Jeweler's Selected Bibliography List ~ http://www.ganoksin.com/jewelry-books Buy Orchid Jewelry: ~ http://www.ganoksin.com/shop ____________________________________________________________________ -Unsubscribe: -Email: orchid-request AT ganoksin.com Body=unsubscribe subject=blank ____________________________________________________________________ |
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