Depletion Gilding
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- This video demonstrates how to do depletion gilding on sterling silver. This technique can also be done on various gold alloys. Having a pure fine silver surface is great for patinas, reducing tarnish/oxidation, and even enameling.
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Thanks for sharing nice video- to the point and not too long. Can we do depletion guiding using a kiln? If so what would you recommend for temperature and time? Thx
I never have but it would work. It could be an efficient approach if you were doing a lot of pieces. Honestly, I don't know what temperature to set it at since I always use a torch. If you figure it out, please let me know so I can share that information too!
Some good tips. But I'm puzzled. I thought that liver of sulfur does not work on fine silver because there is no copper present to oxidize and I have not been able to do so when I have tried to oxidize fine silver. But here you say depletion guilding is used in association with patina.
Different patinas work in different ways. Pure silver will darken when reacting with sulfur (like liver of sulfur). Copper will react with many different chemicals with many different results (sulfur, oxidizers, etc.). Sterling can be confusing because there is both copper and silver reacting with the patina. I hope that helps?
Showed up in my feed and thought "depletion gilding" was a roundabout way of saying "balding"
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