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| Author: | Fasterthanlight [ Fri Sep 20, 2019 4:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Sterling Silver Inlays |
Hi Folks.... I have a request from a client to make a guitar themed around the 'silver dollar' and as such we have talked about the possibility of various silver inlays about the guitar... One idea is to have a ring of sterling silver in the rosette... a quick search turns up nothing, so i'm wondering is there a reason?? I'm envisioning a fairly standard rosette where the center ring is 'bwb, silver, bwb'. The silver being about 1mm in thickness. Can anybody foresee a problem with this? Silver is fairly soft to work so i would just level it flush and lacquer over as normal.... could it react with the lacquer (nitro), for example? May be i'm missing something so i thought i'd just check with you good folks first? Thanks. G. |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
8 pages of results searching "silver inlay", maybe start there? |
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| Author: | Fasterthanlight [ Fri Sep 20, 2019 6:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
Colin North wrote: 8 pages of results searching "silver inlay", maybe start there? Hi Colin... just shot you a PM. G. |
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| Author: | Clay S. [ Fri Sep 20, 2019 8:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
A possible concern might be lacquering over the silver wire. Silver tarnishes easily and nitrocellulose lacquer is somewhat permeable to air and moisture. The silver might tarnish under the finish and the finish would keep it from being repolished. Brass instruments use a special baked epoxy lacquer that is less permeable and allows the brass to hold its polish longer. If you could leave the silver wire slightly proud of the lacquer (like cloisonne) it might allow it to be polished, but I don't know what other problems that might cause. |
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| Author: | stumblin [ Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
I have some limited experience of inlaying silver wire script in a couple of ebony head veneers. It worked well for me. The guitars were french polished but I finished the faces of the headstocks with brushed water based lacquer so as not to colour the silver. They have not tarnished in the three years since they were built. I think that some Larrivee guitars have a silver border on the headstock but I`m unsure as to what finish they use. When I was asked to do the silver inlay I spent some time looking at the options and one of them was to use argentium silver; this is supposedly tarnish free and easy to work. However I could not source any square wire in the gauge that I needed. |
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| Author: | meddlingfool [ Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
Lots of larrivees with silver border haedstock. Both nitro and poly... |
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| Author: | Ruby50 [ Fri Sep 20, 2019 8:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
I did my logo along with side dots in sterling silver and put shellac over them 7 years ago - still shiny Ed |
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| Author: | Barry Daniels [ Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
Aluminum banding looks like silver but it does not tarnish. Cheaper too. |
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| Author: | Fasterthanlight [ Sun Sep 22, 2019 4:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
Interesting ideas folks... thanks alot. |
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| Author: | Bryan Bear [ Mon Sep 30, 2019 9:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
What grit would you prepare a silver or aluminum inlay to. I imagine really fine would be needed to make it look shiny and polished but then would there be issues with finish sticking to it? |
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| Author: | Barry Daniels [ Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
I would sand to at least 600 grit but it would probably look better the higher you go. Don't worry about going too fine for finish. They apply lacquer to brass instruments after buffing to a high gloss. The main thing is to keep the metal's surface clean and free of anything oily before apply finish. |
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| Author: | stumblin [ Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
I`ve used fine Micromesh Up to 12000. No problems with finish adhesion. |
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| Author: | runamuck [ Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sterling Silver Inlays |
I inlaid bits of silver into a piece of furniture 30 years ago and it still looks like I remember it did day one. The finish was nitrocellulose sealer and lacquer. |
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