Old nyamba

karset · 21st September 2009, 05:17 PM

maybe help.but this not my natural language

first making a thin sheet of silver or gold,its better for the next step if the silver or gold is "muda". Use a "jabungan" (mix of asphalt and teracota core) as a base when making motif on the silver sheet ,with chisel and hammer. this jabungan will follow the deep of line from the chisel knock,not fight back! compare it if doing it on wood or metal.and also lock the silver sheet nicely.
this jabungan can be clean by puling it.
after all part done then soldering, then fiilling it with mix of terracota dust and
damar sap.there two kind of damar sap in market: 1.Gondorukem 2.Moto Kucing,this one have yellow color of cat eyes.
sometime the silver sheet are very muda mean that ratio of silver and copper can be 50:50 or 40:60 this way the material will be tough for that kind of work.this ratio will make the silver a little bit yellow if not just been polished.
sorry for english

karset · 15th November 2009, 10:07 AM

[QUOTE=karset]
what i write before is could be wrong.
sorry all.

A. G. Maisey · 15th November 2009, 12:41 PM

Perhaps not wrong Karset, but just looked at from a slightly different perspective.

Different craftsmen can use different methods, and depending upon what is seen by the untrained eye, a slightly different picture can emerge. I think we can accept what you have written as perhaps a somewhat different technique to the technique that I have observed. Not necessarily wrong, just different. I think that what you have described could still fit within the broad span of variation used by different people in executing silverwork.

15th November 2009, 10:07 AM	#2
karset Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 48	[QUOTE=karset] what i write before is could be wrong. sorry all. Last edited by karset; 15th November 2009 at 10:29 AM. Reason: mistake

21st September 2009, 05:17 PM	#1
karset Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 48	maybe help.but this not my natural language first making a thin sheet of silver or gold,its better for the next step if the silver or gold is "muda". Use a "jabungan" (mix of asphalt and teracota core) as a base when making motif on the silver sheet ,with chisel and hammer. this jabungan will follow the deep of line from the chisel knock,not fight back! compare it if doing it on wood or metal.and also lock the silver sheet nicely. this jabungan can be clean by puling it. after all part done then soldering, then fiilling it with mix of terracota dust and damar sap.there two kind of damar sap in market: 1.Gondorukem 2.Moto Kucing,this one have yellow color of cat eyes. sometime the silver sheet are very muda mean that ratio of silver and copper can be 50:50 or 40:60 this way the material will be tough for that kind of work.this ratio will make the silver a little bit yellow if not just been polished. sorry for english

15th November 2009, 12:41 PM	#3
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7,049	Perhaps not wrong Karset, but just looked at from a slightly different perspective. Different craftsmen can use different methods, and depending upon what is seen by the untrained eye, a slightly different picture can emerge. I think we can accept what you have written as perhaps a somewhat different technique to the technique that I have observed. Not necessarily wrong, just different. I think that what you have described could still fit within the broad span of variation used by different people in executing silverwork.