[Jewelry making - Article 00357] - Re: [Orchid] Hard gold? here's the answer

[Bruce Holmgrain]

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>     I've actually hammered a beading tool on the stuff and, looking
>     with a loupe, saw that all I had succeeded in doing was rounding
>     the corners off a bit and spoiling a beading tool. If you can't
>     tighten a bead onto a stone, that stone is likely to fall out. 

    I hate setting in hard white gold alloys in a big way myself.
    However, I will separate my beads from the plate and do some of the
    close in brightcutting before I try to set a stone. I also try to
    avoid pushing a bead against the stone with a beading tool. I will
    use something like a #52 round graver to tighten the stone. Using a
    beading tool always tends to squish the bead when I do it. I just
    use the beading tool to burnish the sharp bur of a prong round. 

    Hard as white gold is, it often cut with a mirror finish. unlike the
    platinoids. Seems that no matter how bright I polish my gravers,
    There is always a dullness. 

Bruce D. Holmgrain
JA Certified Master Benchjeweler
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