In making plique a jour jewels, I prefer 18k gold as my choice of metal. But as you have seen other karats of gold can be use as well as, copper, sterling silver and fine silver. All of which except the pure metals, oxide when firing the enamels in place. To deal with...
Purchase Your Metals I have seen students, all located in different area of the country with either the wrong metal or impure metal when attending my classes or workshops. When you are enameling for jewelry and select fine silver as your base metal to capture...
Enameling on Copper Prep Copper is one of the most popular metals to enamel on. Whether using transparent, opaque or opal enamels you usually need a flux, as you do when enameling on most metals. There are some colors of enamel you will find, you can get by with out...
Repairing Cloisonne Enamels I received a jewel of cloisonné this week broken and wanted to share my steps to repairing cloisonné enamels. The jewel was dropped and the enamel had completely separated from the fine silver base. A little scary so artist might say, but...
Over Firing Enamels = Muddy Enamels Patsy – Wow I hadn’t seen your web site before. Very impressive. I’ve been meaning to let you know about my experiments with the customers enamel, that complained of a blotchy, muddy areas in her transparent...
