How are watch dials given colour? My material is fine silver. I want to know how to add color to it except plating/enameling. E-coating looks quite bad so I would like to know how to add colour.
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I think I worded it poorly. I am taking about grand feu (vitreous) enamel. I will try to rinse and brush it with a new alcohol and see what happens. This one time I left the piece in for a few hours and it turned the alcohol pinkish. No idea why that is. I'll try to do...
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I did not try to do it with a swab. Shall I manually polish the work after it dulls? Won't it take away from the details as polish erodes some material?
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I am facing an extremely peculiar (dare I say a very disturbing) problem. It has already destroyed hours upon hours of work and I cannot figure out in the slightest why that is.
I am doing champlevé in fine silver. I first use a Laser to remove the cells and get basic outline...
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I am workign with fine silver. Engraving and hammering it to achieve various textures. I am using dark brown shellac to hold the piece. When I am done with the piece, I heat it up to remove the shellac. But pieces still stick. When I enamel them, it destroys the color and causes...
Reheating the pattern removes the shine (which comes from hitting the silver with the polished hammer). Repolishing will remove the texture (polishing agents erode details). How to repolish then?
I was wondering what tools I i could use to get a polished texture (a glittery/jewel but textured/frosted like finish) on silver. Below is an example done on gold. I used pneumatic hammers but it domes the sheet and I cannot use thicker gauges due to other constraints. How can I get this finish...
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I have gone through the sharpening forum but would appreciate any inputs on how to go about this;
I recently purchased a second hand pneumatic engraving machine. Clearly it is a clone but that is the best I could do with the finances/tools I have in my country.
The gravers...
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Thank you, I will try on some scrap stuff. Will melt and reuse the plate.
Thank you. A polished heel is challenging to get for sure...but I am learning and experimenting
Thank you, I like hand push but with precision work, one slippage spoils the entire pattern. Shall keep trying.
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I am working exclusively with fine silver. It is quite soft. I am currently using hand push engravers and fine lines are easy to cut. Actually it is so soft that even an xacto can leave shiny marks. One problem is that the graver keeps slipping and that messes up the entire pattern...
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My only goal is to cut bright lines into fine silver. 90% of my work is straight, thin, lines to get those shiny engravings. 10% is some minor curves. Basically, no deep cuts, only very fine cuts that are bright. Some curved, most straight.
Someone recommended that HSS knife gravers...
Thank you so much for your answer. I shall look into these techniques.
Thank you for explaining why it is doming. It makes perfect sense now.
Thank you for the recommendations. I shall find out whether these steels are available in my city and get on it!
Thank you for your advice...
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Thank you so much for your response. My sincerest apologies for not being clear in my original post however I have changed my post so it better reflects what I am looking to do. Thank you for linking their site, I am located in South-Asia however I shall get in touch with them and...
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I am a silversmith. I am working on my own watch dials. Using a foredom power-graver hammer and a ball nose steel-anvil tip, I have hammered this pattern into my silver blank. The effect is that the force from the hammer has domed this coin. This effect is actually quite...