[Jewelry making - Article 00635] - Re: [Orchid] Good sapphires set in silver

[Sam Patania]

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    I think silver is getting the respect it deserves due to price. I
    used to think because I didn't work in gold that I didn't get the
    respect goldsmiths do, it's one thing to say you are a silver smith
    and another to say you are a gold smith, at least in the public's
    eye. I can see the low end of silver getting the beating it deserves
    too. Silver is too expensive to make crap jewelry out of anymore. 

    I would be happy to put any stone in Argentium sterling as the
    tarnish won't show up under the stone. I have been waiting for
    Argentium for a long time, I have lots of stones I wanted to put in
    white but wasn't going to put in nickle gold alloys due to the bitch
    factor of working that alloy. I love palladium white but not at these
    prices, thank God for Argentium. 

Sam Patania, Tucson
www.silverhuntress.com
www.bahti.com
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