Could a GG ever be made in Silver for a price
If so I might save up for one for the holidays!
Oh what a wonderful gift. I know you love me but I can't let you do that for me. It is just too much.
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Oh what a wonderful gift. I know you love me but I can't let you do that for me. It is just too much.
Anything can be made for a price, D.
You might want to think again about silver though - cos of the tarnishing. Titanium (special tools required I think) or platinum (lottery win required) are what I would like!!!
They make a dip to clean silver
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lolTrue, but you want to be using it rather than forever cleaning tarnish off, right?They make a dip to clean silver
heheheheheheOh what a wonderful gift. I know you love me but I can't let you do that for me. It is just too much.
I don't think it would tarnish that quick. I used to use a silver plate to roll tob, and I hardly ever had to clean it.
depends on several factors, the purity of the silver, the oils and stuff on your hands, storage of the item etc
My bet is that you womens might know a little more about silver than us mens....
Could be. I love silver. I have a bracelet that is ultra fine. It never tarnishes.
Sounds like they might have put a coating on it if it never tarnishes - they often do or alternatively, whatever other metals are in it help with the tarnishing, I don't know. I do have some silver things that have never tarnished as well.... Not entirely sure why.....
I've done some silversmithing and stuff made with the pure silver always tarnishes, trust me
Sounds like they might have put a coating on it if it never tarnishes - they often do or alternatively, whatever other metals are in it help with the tarnishing, I don't know. I do have some silver things that have never tarnished as well.... Not entirely sure why.....
I've done some silversmithing and stuff made with the pure silver always tarnishes, trust me
Instead of sterling it says 9.999999 It is supposed to be nearly pure silver. It was called ultra fine silver. It is pretty old. I wear it every day. Nothing has worn off and it looks like it did when I first got it.
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The key point is that you do wear it every day. By doing this, you are polishing it. If you left it in a drawer like your mom did with the 'good' silver, you'd have to polish it when you wanted to wear it.
A better reason to not have it made in silver is that silver is rather soft. Unless you planned to leave it on a shelf, its softness combined with the thin walls of the tube would really be asking for trouble. The scars from very small mishaps that happen every day would make it look old quite quickly.
I've been designing in metal for 25 years, mostly in aluminum. This experience gives me a pretty good feel for practicality. My vote would be the titanium. I might also want to look at carbon fiber but I don't know the material very well. Titanium's a real ..... to machine but you get the hardness of steel with the lightness of aluminum and it has a very nice color and sheen.
BTW: Many of my designs are here: <http://www.thetadigital.com/index.shtml>. I'm sending the link because some of the GG's design elements remind me of some of mine (wings, fonts, Greek references). Great minds.....;-)
Doing carbon fiber on it should be rather easy to do. Just wrap it with the fiber/resin. If the walls were a little thinker would silver be ok to use then?
Nice post cona, I was thinking of titanium, I stuck on cost!
The reason I want to use aluminium 7075 is this. To earn the hardness of steel with the aluminium weight.
But titanium is harder, so special tools required. But the hard materials are break more easily that the soft ones. So I deside for 7075 after some thoughts about hardness and plasticity of the materials.
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