Cranial Meltdown Revived

Gold-filled seems to be one of the metals that most people know little about. It is gaining in popularity with the ever-increasing price of metal, so I would like to shed a little light on this useful and attractive metal.
Gold-filled is different from gold-plated, both in the way it is produced, and in its gold […]

There are so many alloys of brass that I couldn’t begin to even guess how many, so I’m going to focus on talking about the brass alloy I use in my work; it’s an alloy called C23000. (Also called 230.)
Brass 230 is also known as red brass, though to me it appears very yellow in […]

For the third installment in my metal series, I’ve decided to talk about one of my favorite metals to work with: copper.
Unlike many of the metals used in jewelry-making copper is an elemental metal; it is not an alloy like sterling silver or brass. Polished copper has a wonderful color - kind of a pinkish […]

The second metal in my series of articles about metal is nickel silver. I’ve chosen to write about nickel silver because I feel that some of the names that are used for nickel silver tend to be misleading. Nickel silver is often sold as German silver or Alpaca silver, however it contains no silver at […]

In addition to my gemstone series, I’ve decided to start a series on various types of metal used in jewelry-making. My hope is that I can help to provide information that will assist my readers in making jewelry-buying decisions. When shopping for jewelry, whether it’s fine diamond jewelry or inexpensive costume jewelry, the type of […]