by Patsy Croft | Jun 1, 2013 | Enameling Metals, and Demos, Enameling on Brass
Everyday someone visits this site asking if you can enamel on brass. Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Barbara Lewis whom has not only developed torch firing enamels but has produced a line of brass jewels for enameling. Check out her store where you can pick up...
by Patsy Croft | Dec 22, 2010 | Enameling Metals, and Demos
Demo by Brenda Radford, The Gum Bichromate Process for Enamels This process is an old photographic printing technique, and I learned it from Gretchen Goss in a workshop she gave in Oakland, California in 2009. She adapted it from photography colleagues at the...
by Patsy Croft | Jul 10, 2010 | Enameling Metals, and Demos
The Hibiscus are chased on 18k gold. Then the surface is depleted by heating to 800 degrees and dipped in nitric acid repeated times until there is no fire scale. A layer of flux for gold is applied which is Bovano #2 then the red enamel in two layers.
by Patsy Croft | Mar 26, 2010 | Enameling Metals, and Demos
Argentium 970 is currently sold in grain and only from this one dealer, G&S Metals. I just spoke with them and asked why they do not offer it in sheet and other forms. The answer was they have not had the request for offering it. I explained the interest of...
by Patsy Croft | Mar 25, 2010 | Enameling Metals, and Demos
You can enamel on brass. Art Enameling on Metals by H.H. Cunynghame refers to enameling on brass. And Thompson’s Enamel sells it. Gilder’s Metal is how it is listed and it is copper with a bit of zinc, 95% copper and 5 % zinc. It works with transparent...
by Patsy Croft | Mar 1, 2010 | Enameling Metals, and Demos
“When Joseph Trippetti returned from the Army in 1946, he studied for three years at Philadelphia College of Art and the fourth year at Sheffield College of Arts and Crafts in England, where he majored in silversmithing. He has been enameling since the 1950s....