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Hello Cooksongold Forum I'm new here- a fairly recent graduate from a jewellery degree at csm. I was wondering if anyone can recommend me to someone...

Hi I'm new to making jewelry and I particularly like making chainmail. I make my own jump rings by hand out of aluminium wire and I'd like to...

Just interested in the forum members opinion on including a breakaway link in pendant chains etc.

Hello I'm struggling to get transparent reds to fire red. They are a orange brown. I have tried playing around with the temperature, no joy. I tried...

I've had a bottle of Auroflux for about a year, and initially found it to be very good for silver and gold soldering. However, recently, it seems to...

I wish to temper a length of sterling silver for a bangle. It needs to have some spring to it as it closes round the wrist with a hook one end and an...

I've looked at some of the older posts about using lead in a tobacco tin to do some metal forming. Luckily I popped on here first to see that it is...

I was at a local craft fair on the week end, here was a girl selling various copper pieces of jewellery ( must be coming back ) between customers she...

I trained as a goldsmith in Germany, worked in the UK for over a decade in the jewellery trade and am now living in rural France and have picked up...

Will copper taint a. Pickle and b. Taint the shot in a polisher? As sterling silver has a percentage of copper I would have thought not, but better...

Im an average beader, who dabbles in everything. Past few years I've been working with sea glass, Pottery, pebbles and shells, for indoor and...

Hello I have a customer who wants the engraving changed on their signet. They want to keep the depth i.e. not file off the old engraving. How would...