This is re-blogged from a blog post I wrote for the London Jewellery School that was published last week In the jewellery workshop – making your own pickle Jewellers pickle is an acid used for getting rid of firescale on metal, particularly after soldering . Many people are wary about having it in the home, especially those of us with small children or animals. I made do without having it in my home jewellery studio for quite a while because I work in professional jewellery studios where I could easily just pickle my pieces when I was there for teaching. However, I had an urgent commission recently and found I didn’t have time to get to the studio. So, what to do? I googled it (of course) and found that there are ways to make pickle from substances that you have in the home. And so I had a go at making it myself and found that it was very effective and had other benefits. So, this is how I went about it. I found this blog post by jeweller Jo Hollingsworth ...
by Anna Campbell