Hi everyone. I saw this great contrast of dark silver with gold color. But how did they push/press gold leaf (assuming that’s what it is) into the engraved spaces? Upon inspection it looks like they were not successful in getting gold leaf into all the spaces. So as I suspect, it’s a difficult process? Is there a better way? I’d rather not enamel silver since it’s so hard to get enamel to stick to silver since most silver I can get will have a little copper in it. I like the idea of gold leaf inside the engravings what tools/methods are best to push it in? thanks!
Hi,
i searched youtube for “gold inlay” expecting to find mostly traditional gold line inlay…where undercut channels are first engraved…and was happy to find this video of inlaying a griffon!
check it out
julie
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Google Spanish Toledo jewelry. I lived in Madrid back in the 60s. Toledo is a quick bus ride from there. I fell in love with that historical town and all of the jewelry making. It’s a process that goes back for centuries. It’s way trickier to do that inlay than one can imagine. Most all of the folks doing it have been many many generations in the trade.
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Maybe try an agate hand burnisher and for the smaller spaces an old burr cut down to a round tip with a high polish , that will get it to bond for gold foil on fine silver , hopefully i am some help here
The gold griffin inlay is exactly how you inlay gold. There are other ways to get gold onto metal - plating and my favorite - keum bo. There are good information pieces on here about it. It works by diffusion with heat and pressure. It uses 23k or 24k gold much thicker than plating. Judy H
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