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 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...
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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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...
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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...