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935 Silver wire supplier
Does anyone know where we might buy 935/1000 silver wire in various
shapes? In my googling I am coming up empty except for large-scale industrial suppliers - not jewelry-making (read: a few ounce quantity) suppliers. Many thanks in advance of your knowledgeable answers! -- rocket-galSWARFatSWARFtx.rr.com clean out the swarf and symbolize the "at" |
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935 Silver wire supplier
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:30:04 -0800, in rec.crafts.jewelry Mizz Patty
wrote: Does anyone know where we might buy 935/1000 silver wire in various shapes? In my googling I am coming up empty except for large-scale industrial suppliers - not jewelry-making (read: a few ounce quantity) suppliers. Many thanks in advance of your knowledgeable answers! Why that non-standard alloy? Sterling silver is .925 silver. Most likely, I'll bet that to get .935, you'll have to do a special order, and while that might not be large scale industrial, it WILL likely be at least a bit more than a few ounces. But I'm curious as to the need for that alloy. It's only slightly different from sterling, but enough so that sourcing it will be tricky. Why do you need it? But I would think any decent precious metals supplier could, if the quantity were right, fill such an order. Try David H. Fell company in Commerce City California. They tend to cater to artists and their needs. Or, if you get some fine silver and some copper electrical wire, alloy it yourself. Wire's not that hard to make. Perhaps you could enlist the aid of another local jeweler or metalsmith, if your own facilities are not up to that. Peter |
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Mizz Patty wrote:
Does anyone know where we might buy 935/1000 silver wire in various shapes? Almost any raw material supplier in Pforzheim, Germany. -- Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com |
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Peter W.. Rowe, wrote:
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:30:04 -0800, in rec.crafts.jewelry Mizz Patty wrote: Does anyone know where we might buy 935/1000 silver wire in various shapes? In my googling I am coming up empty except for large-scale industrial suppliers - not jewelry-making (read: a few ounce quantity) suppliers. Many thanks in advance of your knowledgeable answers! Why that non-standard alloy? Sterling silver is .925 silver. Most likely, I'll bet that to get .935, you'll have to do a special order, and while that might not be large scale industrial, it WILL likely be at least a bit more than a few ounces. But I'm curious as to the need for that alloy. It's only slightly different from sterling, but enough so that sourcing it will be tricky. Why do you need it? Sourcing of 935 silver is not tricky at all, at least not if you happen to be living and working in Germany. That was the alloy used universally when I lived there. And that was back in 1973! All silver jewelry was made from this alloy. But I would think any decent precious metals supplier could, if the quantity were right, fill such an order. Try David H. Fell company in Commerce City California. They tend to cater to artists and their needs. Or, if you get some fine silver and some copper electrical wire, alloy it yourself. Alloying your own silver is not a smart idea, because of the ability of silver to attract large amount of oxygen at the melting point. -- Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com |
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"Abrasha" wrote
Alloying your own silver is not a smart idea, because of the ability of silver to attract large amount of oxygen at the melting point. Yoda"Always with you what cannot be done"/Yoda Alloying your own silver is hardly difficult at all. Cheers, Dale |
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On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:30:06 GMT, Mizz Patty
wrote: Does anyone know where we might buy 935/1000 silver wire in various shapes? In my googling I am coming up empty except for large-scale industrial suppliers - not jewelry-making (read: a few ounce quantity) suppliers. Many thanks in advance of your knowledgeable answers! On the off chance you mistyped and mean 925, you can get shapes he http://www.monsterslayer.com -- Marilee J. Layman http://mjlayman.livejournal.com/ |
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935 Silver wire supplier
The non-standard 935/1000 alloy is recommended in "Great Wire Jewelry"
by Irene From Peterson. She wrote that this alloy is "the easiest to work", resulting in a "handsome piece even on your first project". She also writes that 925/1000 "is a little stiff to work with". We (my partner Christie and I) have tried viking wire knitting with straight copper wire and got enticingly pretty results. But we want to use silver, and that means we're looking at rather significant material investments (2 or 3 ounces of wire per piece). That, and that the "drawing" of copper got a bit demanding, physically, makes me think "more silver, less copper" for the wire to use. But, I know we don't want to go to the fragile end of the spectrum - fine silver - in order for our pieces to retain a more optimum strength and abrasion resistance. I'm inclined to trust Ms. Peterson's recommendation, but 935/1000 certainly seems to be a European thing and not easily found in the US. It's looking like 925 is what we'll use since it's readily available. I'd love to create an alloy, just for grins, but we don't (yet) have a furnace and, besides, is the difference in ductility that significant? I'll certainly inquire to David H. Fell Co. about what sort of quantity would be "right". If we start making wire knits regularly, we might need those sorts of quantities. Thanks! Patty Rasmussen Peter W.. Rowe, wrote: On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:30:04 -0800, in rec.crafts.jewelry Mizz Patty wrote: Does anyone know where we might buy 935/1000 silver wire in various shapes? In my googling I am coming up empty except for large-scale industrial suppliers - not jewelry-making (read: a few ounce quantity) suppliers. Many thanks in advance of your knowledgeable answers! Why that non-standard alloy? Sterling silver is .925 silver. Most likely, I'll bet that to get .935, you'll have to do a special order, and while that might not be large scale industrial, it WILL likely be at least a bit more than a few ounces. But I'm curious as to the need for that alloy. It's only slightly different from sterling, but enough so that sourcing it will be tricky. Why do you need it? But I would think any decent precious metals supplier could, if the quantity were right, fill such an order. Try David H. Fell company in Commerce City California. They tend to cater to artists and their needs. Or, if you get some fine silver and some copper electrical wire, alloy it yourself. Wire's not that hard to make. Perhaps you could enlist the aid of another local jeweler or metalsmith, if your own facilities are not up to that. Peter -- rocket-galSWARFatSWARFtx.rr.com clean out the swarf and symbolize the "at" |
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The European connection with 935 silver became really evident as I
googled the 'net. Mostly, the results were for antique silver, often said to be European and stamped "935". Many (oh so many) moons ago, I melted silver recovered from photographic solutions .. in an open crucible, then poured it out on soapstone in the form of a rough bar. It didn't seem to suffer from much oxidation. It was then used by a teacher who made turquoise jewelry. If we were to finally get that furnace we "need" I suppose we could, with a large dose of ingenuity, protect the alloy with an inert gas like argon. I've also heard that a borax flux on the surface keeps it reduced, but I've never actually tried it. Geez, I wonder if any of the folks on r.c.jewelry actually attempt to make their own alloys? Thanks! Abrasha wrote: Peter W.. Rowe, wrote: On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:30:04 -0800, in rec.crafts.jewelry Mizz Patty wrote: Does anyone know where we might buy 935/1000 silver wire in various shapes? In my googling I am coming up empty except for large-scale industrial suppliers - not jewelry-making (read: a few ounce quantity) suppliers. Many thanks in advance of your knowledgeable answers! Why that non-standard alloy? Sterling silver is .925 silver. Most likely, I'll bet that to get .935, you'll have to do a special order, and while that might not be large scale industrial, it WILL likely be at least a bit more than a few ounces. But I'm curious as to the need for that alloy. It's only slightly different from sterling, but enough so that sourcing it will be tricky. Why do you need it? Sourcing of 935 silver is not tricky at all, at least not if you happen to be living and working in Germany. That was the alloy used universally when I lived there. And that was back in 1973! All silver jewelry was made from this alloy. But I would think any decent precious metals supplier could, if the quantity were right, fill such an order. Try David H. Fell company in Commerce City California. They tend to cater to artists and their needs. Or, if you get some fine silver and some copper electrical wire, alloy it yourself. Alloying your own silver is not a smart idea, because of the ability of silver to attract large amount of oxygen at the melting point. -- rocket-galSWARFatSWARFtx.rr.com clean out the swarf and symbolize the "at" |
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Like Allgemeine? They look like they sell to buyers of metric tons! Do
you know if they're also "small lot" retailers? Abrasha wrote: Mizz Patty wrote: Does anyone know where we might buy 935/1000 silver wire in various shapes? Almost any raw material supplier in Pforzheim, Germany. -- rocket-galSWARFatSWARFtx.rr.com clean out the swarf and symbolize the "at" |
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935 Silver wire supplier
Well, I did actually mean 935 but thanks very much for the Monsterslayer
link! Crazy, but that's one I hadn't stumbled across ... and the selection is wonderful and prices competitive! Have you found the service really good? Marilee J. Layman wrote: On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:30:06 GMT, Mizz Patty wrote: Does anyone know where we might buy 935/1000 silver wire in various shapes? In my googling I am coming up empty except for large-scale industrial suppliers - not jewelry-making (read: a few ounce quantity) suppliers. Many thanks in advance of your knowledgeable answers! On the off chance you mistyped and mean 925, you can get shapes he http://www.monsterslayer.com -- rocket-galSWARFatSWARFtx.rr.com clean out the swarf and symbolize the "at" |
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