[Jewelry making - Article 00183] - Re: [Orchid] Using master alloys by themselves

[Jeff Demand]

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Adam,

    About 20 years ago one part of my job was making a sales line out of
    a 'master alloy' CZs and nice plating. Miserable stuff to work
    with... soft, tended to wick up solder, and turned my fingers green
    (far more so than copper brass, and bronze. Another consideration is
    that the coloured alloys depend on the gold for the final colour,
    they aren't coloured. A red alloy is mainly copper, green mainly
    silver, and both probably have small amounts of zinc and a few trace
    metals to enhance the final alloys intended use. Probably won't give
    the results you want but probably won't kill you either :-) The stuff
    is not expensive, buy a few ounces of each and experiment. Asking
    questions first is always a good idea but my most permanent learning
    came from first hand experience and experiments I lived through.

Jeff
Demand Designs
Analog/Digital Modelling & Goldsmithing
http://www.gmavt.net/~jdemand
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