[Jewelry making - Article 00158] - Re: [Orchid] Stamping 925 after piece is finished?

[Peter W . Rowe]

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>     I forgot to stamp 925 on the backside and I intend to sell
>     this piece. There's nowhere on the piece where it can be done now.
>     What do you do in this case? Not worry about it? 

    engrave it. that can be done anywhere. I assume you don't have hand
    engraving skills, but you don't need to use a graver to do this.
    Vibro gravers often sold to the public simply to mark identification
    numbers or whatever, on possessions, can leave an attractive mark and
    signature too, if you wish. Practice on scrap so as to get the speed
    setting to where you get a good and atractive mark. Use a good
    magnifier to watch what you're writing if you're writing too small
    to clearly see (depends on how good your close vision is, in part).
    If it looks decent under magnification, it will look fine without. 

    You can also do a decent job of engraving the mark with a tiny ball
    bur or other bur. The key is the word tiny. half a millimeter or
    smaller works best, so it's a thinner cut. High speed handpieces, or
    something like a dremel tool, with its higher speed, makes getting a
    clean line easier. Using a hart bur or inverted cone, which gives a
    cut wider accross than it's height, can give you engraving that are
    more calligraphic in look. Again, use as small a bur as you've got
    for the best effect. And again, practice on scrap first. 

    As a last resort, you can use simply a hand scriber. But it's harder
    than cutting with one of the above, to get smooth looking writing. 

Hope that helps.
Peter
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