SILVERWARE SILVERPLATE is a TRUE DESIGNER FINISH featured at B'sue Boutiques.
The color will remind you of old vintage silverware polished to a lustrous glow! The plating bath used over the brass base is 99 percent PURE SILVER, the highest silver content in the plating trade. This finish is so high in silver content that it will yield to Liver of Sulfur (to darken, or iridize if you want to dip it) *just* as sterling does. It cleans easily with a soft polishing rag and does not tend to tarnish quickly, if at all.
To review reasons for price adjustments on silver and gold finished brass-based goods, please refer to
my blog post here.
An alternative to our more-expensive plating finishes is to develop your own finish. Why not try using paints and Gilder's Paste over raw brass? Ideas on how you might do that can be found in
this video. This video is about a gunmetal finish, but the same thing can be done with other shades of paints, Gilder's paste and even spray paints.
We will continue to explore handmade finishes and the DIY look at B'sue Boutiques. Surface treatments, patina and colorization are our specialty....as well as are top of the line applied finishes, by premier platers.
