As I've written previously, I'm currently looking for a way to make necklaces out of little pieces of Mexico. I have a few sharks teeth kicking around and I visited a jeweler in San Sebastian to see if he could 'dip' them in silver. I have since discovered that the technique to get this affect is done with electricity (great tutorial on instructables) but at the time I was envisioning the teeth being dipped in some sort of silver liquid and coming out effortlessly.Hmmm...
The silversmith tried to dissuade me from melting silver onto the teeth and instead constructed a little cap which I wasn't too into. Then he was nice enough to show us why 'dipping' the tooth was never going to work. In order to get a liquid form of silver you need to heat it up to EXTREMELY high temperatures. Temperatures described by the silversmith as, 'Too hot even for the devil', and as such my tooth disintegrated in the flame.
Since the materials need to electroform are difficult to come by in PV, I am now sourcing bullet shell casings as a 'housing' alternative...
