[Jewelry making - Article 00329] - Re: [Orchid] Rolling out 14K

[John Donivan]

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>     an old pair of cufflinks. It took longer to melt than the other
>     pieces and after we poured the gold, the crucible was pitch black!
>     (I am still not sure what caused this to happen-- thus I am
>     calling it mystery gold.) 

    Likely what I thought from the first post - the cufflinks were gold
    filled, which is to say brass. The quote pretty well says just that -
    all the symptoms. It may be that you can salvage it with some of the
    methods people have posted, or just re-refine it. Certainly if it is
    so, then your 14kt is no longer 14k (or 18 or whatever). Certainly
    there are many solid gold cufflinks - I just worked on a pair - but
    there are far, far more gold filled ones, or at least the findings
    part. 

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