Hi everyone
I’m soon going to be the owner of a brand new durston rolling mill
and i need to ask a couple of questions
i want to make a patterns or textures on to sterling silver and 18k
gold, now i was told that you should make a sandwhich of silver or
gold then put the thing you want to transfare then brassbecause
brass is hard and it helps to get the pattern onto the
silver/gold,now the silver i wanted to use is 1mm thick so now the
question is how thick should the brass be and do i need all different
sizes or if i just had 1mm brass i could use that for any silver
sheet. After reading a few things i found out you can use things from
paper to lace to make a texture so does everything need to used with
brass as i was told this protects the rollers on the mill also the
mills rollers only open about 6mm, oh yeah i almost forgot how many
times can you use each piece of brass is there a limit?. now for the
last question whats the best thing to use to protect the rollers from
rus, durston have a liquid or oil to protect them but they say that
they cant ship it on its own so until i order something else i need
something to use until i do is there anything that you can use from a
hardware store that can be used without the risk of hard to the
rollers
many thanks