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Hi Nikki. Try to get hold of a copy of "Silversmithing" by Finegold and Seitz. Very old fashioned, very, very useful. Also, the Goldsmiths Company sell a DVD from their website, "The Theory and...

If you are interested in silversmithing try The Craft of Silversmithing by Alex Austin, good start up book with lots of photos, and then Silversmithing by Finegold and Seitz. This is an old...

Hello Debby. Whereabouts in Wirral are you? I am near Neston. Are you working alone, untrained or on a course? The heat business can be quite scary when you first start, I nearly set the washing on...

Thanks Dennis,
raising smallish bowls and jugs is what I am doing. I practise on heavy copper which of course needs no protection, but the silver is just too expensive to take chances with.

The tub says, "mix with meths or Lissapol/Teepol. I can't abide the smell of meths but don't know where to buy the other stuff. They appear to be brand names but not available to the general public....

Hi Peter, one of your anticlastic raising mallets would make life so much easier. Please would you add me to your list.
Jane

Thanks for the welcome guys, and for the links. Hope to get to know some of you in time

Hello from the North west. Like the new member from Bristol I am delighted to find a forum in England. (rather than them all being in America). I started working with silver a few years ago but I am...