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Thanks, all. I am encouraged. I'll carry on...

Peter Bond - many thanks for the pointer to Cellini's Treatises. Just the sort of reference material I am looking for.

Good morning, all.

Though a scientist by training, I am fascinated by Anglo-Saxon history. About a year ago, inspired by the Anglo-Saxon and Viking exhibits in the Ashmolean Museum, I decided...

Nice idea, but there is nothing in nature as regular as these. There have been a few academic studies of likely stamps, and some attempts to reproduce them. A couple of them seem to have met with...

I just cut a piece of rough garnet with a diamond saw on a Dremel. The Saxons would have done the same thing, though they didn't have diamond saws, so the process would have been slower. They...

Aurarius - The kiln is an Efco 150, with regulator and a cheap Digital thermometer with a decent pyrometer probe. It seems to work well. It heats from cold to 1400F in about 20 minutes, and holds...

Thanks, all. It didn't occur to me that the contamination could be in the powder. I was scratching my head wondering where it could have come from.

It is indeed my first attempt. I did try cold...

Greetings, everyone. I have no experience whatsoever of making jewellery, so I am likely to be pestering all of you for a while!

I am in the process of writing an historical novel, set in...