[Jewelry making - Article 00780] - [Orchid] Fusing Argentium Sterling Silver

[Grace & Tom Stokes]

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Continue from: "Half round dead soft Argentium wire"
http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/archive/200601/msg00755.htm

Terry,

>     have you tried welding with AS yet, no bubbles like SS, the pieces
>     just seem to reach out and touch and merge and it's so slow at
>     transition. I have not seen any ill effects from this yet, have
>     you? I find this easier to control than soldering especially on
>     jump rings and putting a filet on bezel bases. I have started
>     rolling my own bezel material of AS, if the stone will take the
>     heat, I put the stone in with it, if not I just wrestle with the
>     burnisher unit it is set. A post a couple of days ago made me think
>     to try that, and it worked.

    Up till now I had been avoiding using 100% AS on pieces because I
    didn't think I could harden them sufficiently in my household oven -
    now I will most likely switch completely over to AS, except for
    Bezels and gold accents of course. 

    Your question about 'welding' AS - I assume you mean fusing?? No, I
    have not tried any fusing with argentium, but I will, especially
    with jump rings - I just hate trying to get that tiny little piece
    of solder to hit the join - it always creates a bump. I'm sure
    someone else has already done this and could comment from
    experience. Quite honestly I have not done much sweat soldering with
    AS either, but assume there would be not problems provided the fit
    was good and you didn't get too hot. 

Grace S.

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