Live playback of handmade traditional silver jewelry

Modern handmade silver jewelry production, although improved in the use of tools, still inherits the traditional manual skills.

There are mainly the following tools for making silver ornaments: claw hammer, ring iron, file, small hammer, stainless steel pot, wire drawing plate, saw, gourd clamp, welding lug, crucible, tweezers, welding torch, hanging mill, sleeper, workbench and so on.

The raw and auxiliary materials of silverware making tools are: silver pieces, silver bars, silver wires, alum, borax and so on.

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Identification of silver ornaments

Look at this mark.

Silver ornaments are generally stamped with the English abbreviation of silver ("S" or "Sterling"). The mark of standard silver is S925 or 9.25 or 925. The imprint of foot silver is S990. But there are also many countries that don't print paper money on silver ornaments. Or 9.25925 marks. There are also thousands of silver labels or S999.

Check the color

Silver ornaments are mostly yellowish silvery white with a soft metallic luster. Due to easy oxidation, the color will turn dark yellow and white after a long time.

consider

The density of silver is10.53g/cm3. Smaller than platinum and gold, it won't fall off by hand. Steel needles can be marked or bent. In this way, it can be distinguished from German platinum, K gold or imitation silver jewelry.

Check hardness

The hardness of silver is lower than that of copper, but higher than that of lead and tin, so it can be tested by marking jewelry in an inconspicuous place with a pin. If the needle slips, it is difficult to leave traces on the surface, which can be judged as copper jewelry; If it is made of lead and tin, the trace is obvious; If the object has traces but is not obvious, it can be preliminarily judged as silver jewelry.

Listen to this poem

Sterling silver jewelry fell to the ground and was not elastic. The lower the color, the lower the sound, and the sharper and higher the rhyming sound; If it is made of copper, its sound is high and sharp, and its rhyme is short and short; If it is made of lead and tin, the sound of falling to the ground is dull, short and inelastic.

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