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<p>[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 10646012, member: 5515"]Thanks for sharing,</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve done my fair share of scrapping, and the first piece of advice for anyone that’s going to do it more than occasionally, is buying some mountable throatless sheers makes scrapping <u>way way way faster and less laborious</u>. I’ve been doing it this way for about a year and it was money well spent. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another scrapping observation: observe others yield cautiously. There are manufacturers that historically used a healthy amount of silver, and those that didn’t. For example, if I’m looking at weighted sterling candelabras, I know that Gorham and a few other manufacturers used nice thick silver, while some manufacturers use the thinnest of sterling. I’ve had yields of equally similar sized candelabras be <u>hundreds of grams</u> different because of this. </p><p><br /></p><p>Like most things in this hobby, the devil is in the details, but hey 60grams at current prices is a pretty solid yield.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 10646012, member: 5515"]Thanks for sharing, I’ve done my fair share of scrapping, and the first piece of advice for anyone that’s going to do it more than occasionally, is buying some mountable throatless sheers makes scrapping [U]way way way faster and less laborious[/U]. I’ve been doing it this way for about a year and it was money well spent. Another scrapping observation: observe others yield cautiously. There are manufacturers that historically used a healthy amount of silver, and those that didn’t. For example, if I’m looking at weighted sterling candelabras, I know that Gorham and a few other manufacturers used nice thick silver, while some manufacturers use the thinnest of sterling. I’ve had yields of equally similar sized candelabras be [U]hundreds of grams[/U] different because of this. Like most things in this hobby, the devil is in the details, but hey 60grams at current prices is a pretty solid yield.[/QUOTE]
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