[Jewelry making - Article 00010] - [Orchid] Copper inlay on Silver?

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Hello Orchid Family,

    I have a question, that I hope someone has a fairly easy answer to. 
    I love the look of a deep etch or roll in copper and then flooded
    with hard silver solder and cleaned off to get a silver inlay look. 

    I would like to do this with copper on silver.  Is there anyway to
    make a copper solder that will keep its collar and not alloy with
    the silver like Gold seems to do?  If not a copper solder a copper
    alloy that has a melting temp below fine or sterling?  It does not
    have to stay a true copper color but have enough of a difference
    that it would contrast with the silver.  Any thoughts on this? 

Thanks in advance,
Becky

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