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 Post subject: Re: pink silver???
PostPosted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 4:46 pm 
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Interesting, so based on what you've posted, it sounds like their pink silver formulation is basically shibuichi. I've played around with making it at home and I found that until your copper content gets up to about 75-80%, the metal just looks kind of off white, more yellow than pink. Once the Cu content gets up to 75-80% you get something resembling rose gold in color, but it does tarnish extremely fast. It's pretty though, and the tarnish color is prettier than plain silver or copper. It can be used to artistic effect pretty easily. If you wanted to do some "rose silver" and keep its color, you could look into nano ceramic coatings.

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 Post subject: Re: pink silver???
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For any of us who are unfamiliar with shibuichi:
http://riograndeblog.com/2011/10/shibui ... ver-alloy/


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