[Jewelry making - Article 00297] - Re: [Orchid] Gold plating fine silver for enameling

[Colin Buckley]

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    First of all, great suggestions about alternatives to gold plating.
    But the reason these aren't for me, is I am enameling PMC, rather
    than engraving or etching sheet silver. PMC is fantastic for
    basse-taille and champlev=e, and I've come up with some pretty nice
    stuff with it (if I do say so myself...) 

    Second, after some more testing, I found another red that fires just
    fine onto silver. It's G704 from Nihon Shippo. The color is actually
    more a raspberry red, but, when I layered a Japanese N6 over it, it
    looked fantastic! So, for anyone out there that is sad over the loss
    of 105B, layering G704 under N6, looks almost just like 105B
    (actually a tiny bit better, to my eyes.) I was in class doing this
    experiment, and you should have heard the yelling when we discovered
    that G704 fired perfectly fine over naked fine silver. 

    Lastly, I did place an ad with the Enamelist Society's website
    looking for 105B, but so far, no one's came forward with any. I
    suspect this stuff may not have been on the market long enough to
    have been stockpiled by anyone-not to mention, this was one of the
    more expensive reds out there. Also, as gorgeous as 105B is, N6 is
    far more beautiful, and I have a feeling there might not be that many
    people who require warm colors that can be fired directly onto
    silver. Heck, I'm offering up some out of make Thompson's Lead
    bearing as bait, and still no one's replied to my ad. 

    Once again, I wanted to thank this list for the suggestions, I've
    gotten some great info from this list, and I will totally file away
    some of the suggestions I got for future use.
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