[Jewelry making - Article 00991] - [Orchid] Chlorine bleach

[Karla Maxwell]

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    I am resubmitting this request from a few weeks back because I got
    no response and sure would like one... 

    Orchid Friends, This thought has been going around in my brain for
    awhile. Please excuse the fact that I will not reference any
    particular post or person. 

    Some months ago we had a thread that mentioned how distructive
    chlorine was to silver and gold. Someone mentioned that she did a
    lot of swimming in a pool and was repeatedly losing the prongs to
    her expensive solitare engagement ring. 

    More recently someone mentioned that they were using chlorine bleach
    to get a patina on silver and again someone wrote that the bleach
    was distructive in that it was basically removing everything in the
    sterling that wasn't fine silver. 

    We've been  having a thread about depletion guilding on silver for
    reticulation and/or kum-boo. Do you see where I am going with this? 

    If we do the normal depletion guild using the torch and pickle then
    when we are done we have a fine silver surface but immediately
    underneath we have black oxides. If we deplete a reasonably thick
    piece of sterling with chlorine bleach it would seem that we would
    still get the fine silver skin but would not have the oxides. 

    Your thoughts? 
    Orchid Rules!...........Karla in sunny Southern California 



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