[Jewelry making - Article 00326] - Re: [Orchid] Pickling nickel-silver and brass

[Helen Hill]

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>     Believe it or not when I learned metalsmithing many years ago we
>     never used pickle at all, I was only vaguely aware of it, instead
>     my teacher sent us back to the bench to sand everything clean, maybe
>     it was just busywork (high school) but it was a good habit to
>     learn, especially with metals like nickel which don't always get
>     clean enough in pickle. 

    When I first started self-teaching silver work, I was sanding off
    everything until I got back to the lovely white silver colour. After
    a short while I figured it was a bit stupid because I was removing
    far too much material and that the pickle was supposed to clean up
    the silver. I am now more patient and pickle multiple times, doing
    something else whilst waiting for it to do its job. That way I save
    more metal and have less clean up in the way of sanding to do later. 

Helen
UK
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