[Jewelry making - Article 00704] - Re: [Orchid] Making my own Crucibles

[Trevor F]

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>         I just finished a week-long workshop with 3 African
>     silversmiths (Mali, Burkina Fasso, Niger, one of them being a
>     Tuareg). It was a wonderful experience working with so little
>     equipment and obtaining such a perfect technique. 

Hello Linda,

    Great post!  That must have been a very cool experience.  I love
    hearing about how non-Western smiths go about there business because
    so much of it is possible in a low-tech/no-tech shop like my own. 

>     2. They used tamarind (a pod like plant) + salt as a pickle 

    FWIW, the fleshy part of the tamarind is high in natural citric acid
    so basically they're using a citric acid pickle with a salt booster.
    (I'll have to try adding a little salt to my citric acid pickle to see
    if changes it's effectiveness.) As you may know you can buy tamarind
    at almost any Asian or Indian grocery store. It comes as a cake of
    pods mashed into a small brick, seeds and all. I use it often in my
    other preoccupation: Indian cooking. 

Cheers,
Trevor F.
in The City of Light

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