<font face=arial color=indigo size=4><b>Greetings to all. The "little anvil" weighs in at 5.21 grams in 14k. Wholesale for small orders of such items as this is about 10.75 per gram @ 267.00 gold so the little anvil alone, finished out, is about $56.00.<p> Now I sell the money clip here in my store for $150.00. Any of you fellows who want one can have it for $95.00. The piece in all sterling however would be very nice as well; I'll cast up a few "anvils" next week in silver. As for Bronze, well, I suppose that would be a nice contrast and I may try that also. when oxidized in and around the anvil with "liver of sulpher" the all silver design would really stand out, in fact, my gold one has some oxidation in each of the "curves" and you can just see it in the pictures.<br>Since engraveing is part of knife embelishment, I thought I'd throw in this pic of an 18 karat heavy dome ring I carved recently and finished off with an acid reduction finish, a rather popular process in 18th century europe. This sort of carving can be done on pommels, ferrules and guards to be cast in brass or nickle silver.<p> Bruce Evans, I can't cast nickle silver alloy. God knows I've tried and I still intend to give it another go sometime soon however it has such a high temp range it's damned awful stuff to get to behave itself; always full of porosity and gas bubbles and boy does it smoke!<p>
regards, mitch<p>
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