Gold, silver jewelry production method who knows?

Folk old silver jewelry to build to roughly through the silver, casting, molding, burin, welding, cleaning process: First of all, the silver material is melted, and then in the production of strips, slices, filaments and other parts. Most of the workshops have a special charcoal furnace, the fire is more fierce, coupled with the wind box to send oxygen, the crucible in the silver to dissolve very quickly, and then poured into the stone groove casting into the strip, cooled after the party processing; and go side of the craftsmen in the melting silver, the first will be placed in a small crucible of crushed silver, and then put a small amount of borax powder on the shelves, under an oil lamp, the craftsmen will be lit after the oil lamp, holding a copper blowpipe, and hard! Blowing fire until the crucible of silver melted into liquid. Pour the silver liquid into an iron trough, a moment that is condensed into silver bars. When the silver bar completely cooled, you can clamp the silver bar on the anvil into a slice or pulled into a strip to be used. There is such a scene in the movie "Silver".

Silver production

When a certain number of silver sheets or bars have been prepared, the craftsman can further process them according to the pattern requested by the owner, so that they take on the basic shape of a silver jewelry part. One method is to draw the pattern in ink on the silver piece, then use different shapes of drills to chisel out the pattern, or place the silver piece or bar in an iron mold and use a hammer to directly beat out the pattern with concave and convex, which results in a slightly coarser pattern of the silver piece. There is also a way to put the silver in the tin yin and yang mold hammered out of the concave and convex surface, and then the silver mold piece of rosin pasted on a wooden board, with different sizes of engraved burin according to the pattern of the texture of the blow, you can make a more fine silver ornaments to the piece. Silver wire is usually made of fine silver bars, fine and well-proportioned, there are also beaten, more shaped, for special purposes. Monofilament is used as the edge of the line, compound wire with more than two silver threads rolled into a twist. After all the parts processing is completed, that is placed in boric acid water soak, and then arranged in accordance with the pattern of the style on the firebrick, in the welding parts sprinkled with soldering flux, lighted oil lamps, with a blowpipe to blow the flame to the welding parts, when padded in the firebrick below the black to white, that is, the welding is complete. At this point, after a slight trimming with a file, put into the alum water to cook white, and then rubbed with a cloth to shiny is complete.