[Jewelry making - Article 00135] - Re: [Orchid] Finishing and polishing square edges

[John Donivan]

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    There is no economical way to polish the rungs of a ladder (per your
    example) all around and have crisp edges. There is a simple solution,
    though, which, by the way illustrates the difference between silver
    and gold work. That is to prepolish the parts, and then assemble them.
    You can't do that as easily in silver because of the white layer you
    get in soldering, but it is a common practice in gold - not even
    daily, but hourly - many things are prepolished. Then you have to come
    up with a design that lets you assemble it with the rungs in a square
    profile i.e. - so they don't spin. Then you aren't polishing a
    ladder, you're polishing flat wire - a tedious but simple process. 

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