Thread: Silver Blueing
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Old July 22nd 10, 06:30 AM
rexrayenz rexrayenz is offline
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Originally Posted by Chilla View Post
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


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http://schmidling.com
This is a nice silver separately from their other dishes because metal sinks and washing utensils can scratch out silverware, and stainless steel finish damage if it comes in contact with your silver.
Avoid using rubber gloves when washing the silver, as rubber corrodes silver. (The pictures opposite to see you here, will be) where rubber gloves were worn, use a soft cloth gently rub the silver clean and dry immediately with a soft towel. Dull silver with a soft cotton cloth gently glowing skin.
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