[Jewelry making - Article 00950] - Re: [Orchid] Argentium silver

[Cynthia Eid]

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    Hi Janet, I've been using argentium silver, and really like it. 
    (There was a limited supply for members of the Society of American
    Silversmiths for a while.)  Stern Leach is currently working on it,
    and hopes to have it on the market here in a few months.  Currently,
    one needs to order it from Thessco, in England (slow and expensive
    shipping). 

    I really like its working properties, as well as the firescale and
    tarnish resistance.  It is wonderfully ductile for fold forming and
    die forming.  I had trouble with deep drawing it, but I'm told by the
    man who developed it, Peter Johns, that it was because the material I
    had was from and experimental lot made in Finland.  So, personally, I
    am waiting anxiously for it to be available here in sheet and wire
    form!  I think it's great stuff! 

Cindy
Www.cynthiaeid.com 


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