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Thanks all of you for your advices. This is a next big step for me!
I blame Dennis who said over a couple of years ago that he thought I was on the slippery slope to addiction!……….Rolling mill very soon now! Any advice on texturing strips….leaves etc to emboss silver sheet ?
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I like lace - gives a very pretty pattern. The plastic netting from fruit bags will give a snakeskin like effect.
I'm busy collection things I think will work and those are my favourites at the moment
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Don't put green leaves through a rolling mill, you'll just give yourself a lot of work to clean the rolls of squidged greenery. Leaf skeletons, or better still artificial leaf skeletons if you can find them.
ISTR there are people using Cricut-type plotters to cut thin card for embossing?
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I buy laser cut patterns on Etsy and they come from Canada. Curtain tape is quite good and even packaging paper. You just have to try different things on copper
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Does anyone know the maximum thickness of silver you can start rolling progressively down from an ingot to produce a thin sheet. This is with the entry level mill. The write up is a bit vague…..they mention 4 mm but it isn’t clear (to me) if this is the max figure.
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I think we've been here before David.
The problems are that very thick silver needs annealing and drying at every pass, which makes it very slow to begin with.
I prefer to pickle and rinse, out of habit, but this might be unnecessary.
Secondly, too heavy a load on your basic mill could cause a cog to break, so it is best to reduce the gap a small amount at a time.
All this has made me suggest 4.0mm as a good starting point, but there is nothing to stop you reducing the thickness with a large hammer to begin with. Dennis.
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Yes Dennis I remember that post but couldn’t remember if I had decided which mill! I suppose initial thinning can be by use of a hammer…..with annealing of course.. anyhow thanks to you all for your encouragement and advices.
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Melting scrap silver.
Just got the mill from cooksons……40kilos! Now well bolted down on my garage workshop bench and put together. Itching to experiment first with textures and leaf skeletons. A new journey of discovery awaits!
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Congratulations. Don't forget to stop for meals. Dennis.