[Jewelry making - Article 00611] - Re: [Orchid] Keum Boo Nightmare

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>     says that all soldering musts be completed.

    The idea that keum boo can only be done on finished objects is a
    myth. I normally apply keum-boo to  material before forging,
    soldering etc with no problems. If you use enameling foil for
    keum-boo you can have problems, but it is so easy to make your own
    keum-boo foil (no special foil necessary) that one only uses
    enamelling foil for compositional reasons (it can give you green
    tones, and if you deliberately heat the metal so high that it is
    absorbed into the silver, then where it is looks the same as the
    surrounding metal but stays white when treated with liver of sulfur
    thus giving another design option. Read this article at ganoksin for
    more detail: 

    http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/keumboo.htm

best
Charles

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