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    Red face Discolouration around cup??

    I need some advise from you wise folk.

    I made a piece of silver jewellery the other day textured it slightly with my rolling mill, soldered a cup, set my stone and polished it up a treat.. looked lovely and I was very happy with my new creation. Next day I noticed that the piece had tarnished slightly but there was a kinda discolouration around the cup that was lovely and shiny compared to the rest of the piece.. I'm now gutted because I can't sell this beautiful piece but what could have caused this I have never had this issue before..

    Any advice would be much appreciated.

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    No I pickled and polished it and it was perfect until the next day?? very strange..

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    I’ve been there but sometimes you go into a different light and there it is. I usually find mine when I put them in the light box to photograph. Otherwise I’m not sure what I can suggest as I’ve never had tarnish appear like that

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    Caroline is probably right. You might remember spending longer than usual getting the solder to flow.
    Remedy: Get a hotter torch. In and out more quickly.

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    You might be right, would firestain get worse over night? and if it is firestain what would you suggest to remove it now the stone is set? scotch mop attachment?

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    True.. I use my little butain quite a lot out of pure laziness! :-) but I do have a gas / air set up

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    The firestain wouldn’t have worstened overnight you might just be looking at it in a different light. My worry about removing it would be the lightly textured aspect. I don’t use scotchbrite mops any more as they need the lightest of pressure or you end up either removing the texture or worst case scoring the surface. I have been known in that case to matt finish it and hope it isn’t so obvious or I just end up polishing it out with a bristle brush and tripoli, then rouge. If I know it’s lurking there I usually end up going back and doing it properly though but I’m really anal about finish.

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    Yeah I dont think I can sell this piece now :-( thank you for the advice I will try polishing it out and see how it looks..

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    Any chance you could get it plated?

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