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Used Book in Good Condition
First sources:
http://www.jloose.com/thesis.html
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HstSPW47mDY
If you are able to get your hands on this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Practice-Goldsmithing-Erhard-Brepohl/dp/0961598492 Take it!! The German bible for gold and silver smiths.
My experience with niello making was fun. I am a chemistry laboratory worker so I am kinda attracted to this kind of work ;)
The sulfur burning was the main problem I had, but since I made it outside it wasn't that dangerous. I used the Brepohl recipe with 2 parts silver and one part copper, wich is the lowest melting alloy of these two. Than I added 1 part lead for the flexibility oft the finished Niello. Than the fun part starts an you throw sulfur in the crucible and shit gets real. Blue flames, white smoke, burning eyes and worried neighbors. But with the right wind direction or an decent air ventilation that isn't that big problem. I tried first pouring the niello in sulfur, but my porcelain bürstend :/ after that i simply poured it into water Wich worked fine. The dried niello was grinded down to desperate it from I reacted metal parts. Here is a important part I think. Niello is brittle, metal not. But grinding it I have reached a very homogen Pulver that has no Metal impurity left. I will tweak around here and there over the next weeks and post then and now an update :)