[Jewelry making - Article 01018] - Re: [Orchid] Free form gold pieces

[Mark Zirinsky]

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    Silver has different properties than gold, for example better themal
    conductivity. 

    here are some suggestions to experiment with: 

    1. vary the pour height 

    2. vary melt temperature 

    3. add ice cubes to water 

    4. add other materials to the water 

    silver seems to crystallize, sometimes, almost by looking at it.
    Gold, on the other hand, forms perfect crystals in nature, however
    the crystals are almost always formed out of solution exchange,
    rather than by crystalline action in a mass of metal (as with
    silver) 

    the good news: as you experiment, you simply keep remelting the
    results from the experiments that do not work. you will waste some
    time, maybe a little torch gas, but you will learn quite a bit about
    the metal as you go. 

good luck, keep experimenting.

 
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