[Jewelry making - Article 01035] - Re: [Orchid] Fabricating Silver Chopsticks

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    I regularly make fine and.985 silver chopsticks and sell them in my
    shop. I have made the large Chinese and the smaller Japanese styles.
    Around Christmas last I took an order for numerous sets of Japanese
    style sticks with rests and little bowls for sushi, all made from
    .985 silver. I set birthstones (cabs) in the large ends of the
    sticks. I like that alloy (it's with copper just like sterling only
    less) because it will work harden, albeit not as completely as will
    sterling, but it hardly tarnishes at all. 

    I pour my silver into one of those old ingot molds with the two
    different width grooves on one side and the bigger long ingot on the
    other. I pour into the smaller one for Japanese & the larger for
    Chinese. I then run them through the mill to square them up and when
    they are suitable, clip them to length with a bolt cutter and make
    the round ends round with a dead drop hammer that I've polished, on
    a section of railroad track drilled and bolted to a large-ish stump.
    I just hammer and turn until they're right. I belt sand the ends and
    use bobbing compound to smooth off any rough spots off the ends and
    the sticks themselves, Then I use that orange platinum polish to
    finish them off, all polishing is done on the big wheel.
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