Hello! I’m new here but have been told if anyone would know about
this question, it would be over at ganoksin. I’m a novice jewelry
maker with a home studio, but my husband has been a bench jeweler
off and on for years so I’m sort of learning from him. I made a ring
about a month ago, just playing around with scrap sterling I have,
and ended up with a patina I would love to duplicate. I was using
firescoff flux on it to help solder the center ball on when it
happened, and the center flower got red hot and had speckles on it
that glimmered when the torch got near it. Once the heat was off
those spots took to a copper color. The liver of sulfur won’t take
to those spots ether.
I’ve included a link to the image of the ring - I’m after the copper
color speckles on the ring. My husband thinks maybe I heated the
sterling hot enough to separate the copper from the silver but I’ve
been trying to do that again and can’t seem to do it. I think I may
have flicked solder on it and it took copper. It’s really important I
figure out how I did it so I can do it again, or at least figure a
way of doing something like that again.
- C. Byrnes
