[Jewelry making - Article 00628] - Re: [Orchid] Keum Boo Nightmare

[Noel]

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>      ...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.

    A word of warning, learned the hard way-- It seems when metals mix
    on their own, they tend to make their eutectic alloy (anybody care
    to support or disabuse me?)-- in any case, I have found that the
    "mix" area has a *much* lower melting point than either of its
    components, so be careful, or what you'll get is a jagged hole. 

--Noel

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