wtb nickel silver billet strips
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I've never heard of nickel silver strips being used and have no idea where you'd get them Silver on the other hand is readily available in all sorts of rectangular and square strips in different sizes. Try Google and ebay as well as jewelry supply distributors. Get soft pure silver, not sterling.
You have two options in 'silver' metal for inlay strips, aluminum and silver.
Aluminum is by far the most commonly used. Nickel-silver is never used, it's too hard.
Alum. can be had in about any thickness desired and silver is offered in 'wire-gauge' thickness.
'Fine-silver' is 99.9% pure and is a very soft mtrl.
Sterling is 92.5% pure with the balance usually being copper to give it body/strength.
I want to emphasize that sterling is not pure silver, though it's a common misconception.
I use sterling in the billets I build for the shafts that require it; Cog, B.Hunter, RC3, etc.
Do some research, an education awaits.
HTHs, KJ
Aluminum is by far the most commonly used. Nickel-silver is never used, it's too hard.
Alum. can be had in about any thickness desired and silver is offered in 'wire-gauge' thickness.
'Fine-silver' is 99.9% pure and is a very soft mtrl.
Sterling is 92.5% pure with the balance usually being copper to give it body/strength.
I want to emphasize that sterling is not pure silver, though it's a common misconception.
I use sterling in the billets I build for the shafts that require it; Cog, B.Hunter, RC3, etc.
Do some research, an education awaits.
HTHs, KJ
Nickel silver has been used in cues for years. A much harder material than any of the previous mentioned dead soft silver or aluminum. It is also much more difficult to work with because as mentioned it has no silver in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_silver
Billet strips that I have used in the past I made myself. Cutting from sheet and deburring is a pita. If properly finished it will have a shine unlike anything that does contain true silver IMO. Also IMO after messing with it for several years in my early cues I have come to conclusion it is not worth the effort.
I'm sure I still have some strips left buried amongst years of other defunct projects floating around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_silver
Billet strips that I have used in the past I made myself. Cutting from sheet and deburring is a pita. If properly finished it will have a shine unlike anything that does contain true silver IMO. Also IMO after messing with it for several years in my early cues I have come to conclusion it is not worth the effort.
I'm sure I still have some strips left buried amongst years of other defunct projects floating around.
Not doubting your word but that looks a lot like aluminum to me, probably just the pic.
Nickel silver has a luster like no other metal though some stainless gets close.
Maybe the it's nickel content in each.
It is 015 Nickel Silver. Not aluminum, not stainless, not sterling, or any other material you might think it is. Sorry the quality of the image isn't to your standards to ascertain this but you are welcome to message me for a sample if you are that interested in questioning my statement further.