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In addition, this page describes trade processes that use dangerously toxic materials such as cyanide solutions, mercury amalgams, or strong acids. These processes require training, equipment, and precautions far beyond what the text describes.
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Gilding, Silvering, Etc
To Clean and Polish Frames
When the prepared frames are quite dry, clean and polish them. To do this, wet a small piece at a time, and, with a smooth, fine piece of…
Gold Size for Picture Frames
Grind a lump of tobacco pipe clay into a very stiff paste with thin size; add a small quantity of red ochre and fine black lead, ground…
Burnished Gilding
This style of gilding is adapted for fine work, such as picture frames and other fancy furniture. We shall endeavor to give the necessary…
To Burnish Gold
When the work is covered with gold, set it by to dry; it will be ready to burnish in about eight or ten hours; but this will depend on the…
Oil Size for Gilding
Grind calcined red ochre with the best and oldest dry-
Matting, or Dead Gold
Those parts of the work which look dull from not being burnished, are now to be matted, that is, are to be made to look like dead gold; for…
To Finish Gilding
It is now only necessary to touch the parts in the hollows with a composition made by grinding vermilion, gamboge, and red lead, very fine…
To Make Shell-Gold
Take any quantity of leaf-gold, and grind it, with a small portion of honey, to a fine powder; add a little gum-arabic and sugar candy…
Water Size
Water size (for burnished gilding) is parchment size ground with yellow ochre. 3573. To Prevent the Adhesion of Gold Leaf. Painters and…
Gilding on Glass
Mix powder- ished silver, copper, brass, &c., may be gilded gold (see No. 2517) with thick gum-arabic ed by the direct application of gold…
To Gild with Dutch Metal
The imitation of gold or silver leaf known as Dutch metal is much used for common purposes. The article to be gilded is prepared with a…
Gold Tracing on Metal
Writing or any device in gold may be made on polished steel or iron, by tracing on the surface with a camel-hair pencil, using an ethereal…
Water Gilding
This process involves several distinct operations, and can only be performed successfully by those who have learned the art practically…
Grecian Gilding
Dissolve equal parts of sal-ammoniac and corrosive sublimate in nitric acid, and a solution of gold is to be made with the above mixture as…
Japanners' Gilding
The surface is covered with oil size thinned with changing its color; replace it in a perpendicuspirits of turpentine, and gold in powder…
Leaf Gilding
This term is the cork, and what remains in the tube is fit for use, and may be called gilding liquid. Let it be put into a bottle, and…
To Make Oil Gold Size
This digesting these metals in nitro-muriatic acid, is usually made from the sedinment which must be entirely free from all excess of acid…
Oil Gilding
The surface is pre- ether must not be shaken with the muriate of pared or primed with a coat of white lead gold, as is advised by some, for…
To Gild Steel
Pour some of a solution of cyanide of potassium, CO parts, the ethereal solution of gold into a wine-glass, in pure water, 80 parts; shake…
Fire Gilding
This was extensively done before the discovery of the art of workmanship has come down to us from an. cient Rome and Greece, gilded, and…
Gilding by Immersion
Dissolve teroxide or terchloride of gold in a solution of pyrophosphate of soda, and dip the article to be gilt in it. 3590. Gilding and…
Gold Plating Powder
Wash thoroughly 1/4 ounce chloride of gold; then gramme, (7) grains) nitric acid of specific ald it to a solution of 2 ounces cyanide of…
Gilding Paste
Metallic sur- 3597. Boettger's Method of Gilding faces are gilt by rubbing on the following Glass. Boettger has modified Wernicke's…
Upton's Gold Detergent
Quicklime, 1 ounce; sprinkle with a little hot water to slack it, then gradually add 1 pint boiling water, so as to form a milk; dissolve 2…
Novargent
This is said to consist of a solution of fresh precipitate chloride of silver in hyposulphite of soda (or, according to the Pharmaceutical…
Silvering Paste
Nitrate of silver, 1 part; cyanide of potassium (Liebig's), 3 parts; water sufficient to form a thick paste. Apply it with a rag. A bath…
Silvering Solution
Prepare a solution of 1 part cyanide of potassium in 6 parts water; add it to a concentrated aqueous solution of nitrate of silver (free…
Non-poisonous Silvering Fluid
Nitrate of silver, 80 parts; dissolve in distilled water, 36 parts; add sal-ammoniac, 40 parts; 3599. Gruene's Method of Gilding and…
Silvering Hooks and Eyes
A patent has been granted in Bavaria, for the following method of silvering hooks and eyes made of iron ware. The articles are suspended in…
Silvering Glass
Two distinct methods are adopted for this purpose. The one falsely called silvering, consists of the application of a layer of an amalgam…
Simple Process for Silvering
This is an improved process for silvering cop- 'per, brass, and other alloys, by means of a solution of silver in cyanide of potassium; the…
To Silver Looking-Glasses
This is usually done by coating the glass with an amalgam. For this purpose a large, perfectly flat stone table is provided; upon it is…
Cold Silvering
Mix 1 part glass, from which the mercury was drained, chloride of silver with 3 parts pearlash, 1½ at the bottom of the frame. To convex…
To Repair a Damaged Mirror
Pour upon a sheet of tin foil about 3 drachms of quicksilver to the square foot of foil. Rub smartly with a piece of buckskin until the…
To Silver Leather
For leather tanned with sumach, in the place of nitrate of table, face downwards; place the foil upon silver (see No. 3627) the chloride…
To Silver Stucco and Pottery
Stucco and pottery may be silvered by the same process as No. 3628, but before being submitted to the operation they should be covered with…
To Silver the Metals
Commence by cleansing them with nitric acid; rub them afterwards with a mixture of cyanide of potassium and powdered silver; then, after…
To Tin by the Moist Way
Make a solution of 1 part protochloride of tin in 10 parts water, to which add a solution The tin solution is prepared with 1 part…
To Cleanse Iron for Tinning
means of a ball of oakum and a little pow- The metal must be cleansed by immersion in dered resin; the tin will readily adhere. tin will…
To Tin Iron
First cleanse as of potassa mixed with tin borings, or boil above, then heat the article just hot enough to melt the…
To Tin Cast Copper or Brass
Make a saturated solution of oxide of tin (tin putty), in potash lye; add to the solution some tin filings or shavings; make it as hot
Cold Tinning
Rub pure tinfoil and quicksilver together until the amal- as possible; then introduce the brass or copgam becomes soft and fusible, clean…
To Tin Copper Tubes
W. Wollweber recommends for still-worms copper tubes tinned inside in the following manner: To a solution of Rochelle salts a solution of…
To Coat Copper with Zinc
be thinly coated with the above preparation To granulate the zinc, a clean surface of copper may be coated with zinc by placing the two…