[Jewelry making - Article 00290] - Re: [Orchid] Raising gold to the surface

[artsygirl1017]

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Hi Chaya,

    I actually did this recently by mistake, so this is my experience
    only. I'd never read anything about it, it just happened! I had been
    working on experimenting with fusing a ring using some extra 14k
    peach gold from some sprues. Whenever I have been trying to fuse 14k
    gold, I use flux. So this was my process - flux, fuse, pickle,
    forge, anneal, forge, anneal, forge, little extra flux to fuse
    again, pickle, forge..... some more of the above - then then last
    round of flux - fuse and pickle, I took it out and it had turned
    yellow - no longer had the peachy glow. it was really just all of a
    sudden and I was pretty shocked by it at first. 

    That was my process, and if I repeated those, I don't know for sure
    if it would work again, but I tend to think it would. As far as
    bringing the copper up, are you sure your pickle is fresh and
    untainted? I have found that if my pickle is even slightly off the
    14k copper plates before my sterling does. 

Hope that helps!
Beth
www.bethcyr.com
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