[Jewelry making - Article 00927] - Re: [Orchid] Technical question about firescale

[Trevor F]

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>     This sounds like a situation in which it would make sense to
>     consider switching to Argentium sterling-- if I understand right,
>     no firescale! Right, Trevor? 

    Sorry for the late response, still catching up from the xmas backlog. 

    Needless to say yes, I would strongly recommend Argentium Sterling
    (AS) in an application like this. Avoiding firescale (and tarnish) is
    what AS is all about and that feature of it would certainly go a long
    way to assisting Marilyn in the type of work she is doing. 

    Imagine being able to assemble your work piece by piece as you like
    with no need to use the anti-ox stuff EVER, just ignore it
    completely. In fact the more times you heat "unprotected" AS the
    better because that way it builds up it's tarnish resistance over the
    repeated heating cycles. 

    Sounds to me like her kind of work is one place where AS would be
    ideal. 

Cheers,
Trevor F.
in The City of Light
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