re: #105 William Lewis

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Heh. I can imagine. I gained a lot of respect for casting of all kinds that semester.

Good old sterling. I think what I bought for that class was US coin silver (90%) rather than sterling. Cheaper for the parents.

There is something magic about a lot of silver and just a little copper, say 10% down to 5% or so. You can get it to do about anything you can ask of a metal. Soft, springy, or just hard. Takes a patina or sets stones just fine. Funny thing is in high purity it can outperform gold in a material engineering way.