Wire - Fine Silver - Dead Soft - By the Foot Choose from dropdown:20 gauge Dead Soft - 1 Foot glass and china

glass and china

You can even add an extra holder on an additional side or replace a used one with our available replacements

Depletion gilding will bring up a skin of fine silver on the surface of the metal by oxidizing and then dissolving the copper near the surface

Do not let your skin touch the metal as this may add oil back to the piece

Torch firing is safe for stones 4mm or smaller

Wire - Fine Silver - Dead Soft - By the Foot Choose from dropdown:20 gauge Dead Soft - 1 Foot glass and chinaWire Fine Silver Dead Soft . 999 Silver. Dead soft is easy to manipulate and can be work hardened. Fine silver can be co fired in silver clay with no preparation. Embed the wire and fire. When embedding wire, rough up the end that goes into the clay with sandpaper. As the clay shrinks, it has something to grip to and hold. Fine silver can be work hardened by stretching, twisting, rolling, hammering, tumbling, etc., but it can not be heat hardened.