February 12th 10, 03:14 AM
posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
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Silver Blueing
Yep sulphur. It's a problem with modern society. There's not much that
you can do about it.
I suppose you could wash your cutlery in a natural soap and hot water.
Regards Charles
Jack Schmidling wrote:
I lost my access to usenet so I kind of lost track of this group.
As some of you may remember, I made some hand forged flatware a few
years ago.
details: http://schmidling.com/silver.htm
We use the knife and fork at dinner every day and it gets washed with
soap and a Scotchbrite sponge so it stays clean and bright.
In the past few months we have noticed that the tines show a blue
color reminiscent of the tempering stages while hand forging.
It takes a bit of an effort to get rid of but in a few days it comes
back again but only the tines.
It has been at least 5 years since I made these but the tines never
looked any different from the rest of the fork and this problem just
started a few months ago.
Any ideas?
Jack Schmidling
Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Fiber, Gems,
Nature, Radio, Sheep, Sausage, Silver
http://schmidling.com
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