How to do Keum Boo in my method

Posted by Kazuhiko Ichikawa on April 04, 2019 | 9 Comments

FAQ;

Q: What is depletion gilding?

A: Deletion gilding is the method to eliminate copper from the suface of sterling silver.

Heat up the sterling silver with brushy flame and oxidize the copper on surface. Then cool it down slowly because it produses more oxidized copper.

Then pickle it to wash out the oxidized copper.

Rpeat this process several times until the sterling silver doesn't get balck under the flame anymore.

The video shows the process only once but I did it several times in fact.

 

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