[Jewelry making - Article 00179] - Re: [Orchid] Difficulty Fusing

[Noel Yovovich]

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>     Would still love it if someone would chime in in the Pickle
>     effecting the fusing process, Cynthia Eid maybe or someone else who
>     does a lot of fusing. 

    I do a lot of fusing, and I must say I've never noticed any problems
    caused by pickling. I initially learned the technique at a workshop
    with Marne Ryan, and she didn't mention anything like that either. 

    On the other hand, even when working with ordinary sterling, it is
    not necessary to pickle between steps of fusing. Plus, you don't
    need to use flux. At first, everything will get kind of black and
    disgusting looking, but you can just ignore that. I pickle when I am
    done creating a sheet of layered texture, or at the end of the day.
    At the end, you'll have a surface coat of fine silver. 

    If I'm having a bad day (the fusing goddess isn't smiling on me) or
    I'm fusing gold to silver, then I pickle-- with the pieces wrapped
    in binding wire-- before I begin, to copper-plate the silver, to aid
    fusing (and I use flux). And by the way, I do this in my regular
    pickle, and go on using it. Once the iron is out of it, it no longer
    plates-- or, to be precise, I've never had a problem from doing
    this, though I feel sure others will say different. 

Noel
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