Tag Archives: silver
Make Your Own Lemel Trap
Every year I cut a LOT of silver wire into tens of thousands of jump rings. As the saw bites through the precious metal, it throws off lemel, the metal equivalent of sawdust. Unlike sawdust, silver lemel remains precious, and … Continue reading
Posted in Tools to Make
Tagged dust, health, Jump Ringer, jump rings, lemel, polishing, safety, silver, Trap
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Gah! Pickle Turned My Silver and Brass PINK…
Copper is awesome. It carries electricity through our world, and it makes many things blue, like octopus blood and turquoise stones. We’ve been making stuff out of copper for, oh, something like 10,000 years. Yep. Really. No surprise that we magpie … Continue reading
Posted in Studio Chemistry
Tagged brass, chemistry, copper, etching, flashing, hydrogen peroxide, jewelry myth, myth, pickle, silver, sodium bisulfate, Super Pickle
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