A Preface to Fusing
While Soldering is easy and uniform, Electrum Emporium chooses to fuse because soldering exposes the jeweler to toxins and requires finishing with more toxins to ensure it doesn't stain the skin. Whereas fusing ensures the purity remains and no exposure to toxins occurs in the process of conjoining metal. Soldering requires extra care in the finishing steps to hide the imperfections of a piece as the soldered joint of high copper content oxidizes in a process called fire-scaling. Fusing requires extreme torch control but no fire scaling occurs since there is no copper content. While solder requires less heat than the base metal of the jewelry due to its lower purity, fusing requires the same amount of heat because the point of fusion retains it's purity. This means that by exclusively fusing fine metals, Electrum Emporium LLC has a simple yet elegant style as a result of abstaining from small and complex designs that require soldering.
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Back to Fusing
Traditional jewelers choose to solder their tainted metals by adding an agent called flux to cleanse and allow the adherence of another metal, usually even less pure than the base metal of the jewelry piece.
Alternatively, fusing uses the metal already on the piece by melting the focal point to the point that it connects without the need for flux.
This lack of copper and flux in Electrum Emporium pieces further means that no fire-scaling occurs in the fusing process. Perpetually keeping the natural luster of the precious metal in every state, start to finish.
A Preface to Fusing
Product Care
Fine gold and silver that has not been alloyed with copper, keeps a near everlasting luster. Fine silver and gold bullion and coins are recovered from sunken ships of times long past, still holding their luster. This is not the case for any alloy containing copper, like sterling silver or 14k gold.
The natural oils excreted by skin will do well to keep fine precious metals polished and lustrous. Electrum Emporium angers traditional jewelers by being by choosing to abstain from seeking profit increases through professional cleaning or lessened purity.
Electrum Emporium focuses on transparency without sacrificing fineness of our jewelry. Aiming to redefine the tainted standards of the current jewelry industry.