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My art: featherdust.com😮 Does this mean that she will have another baby Windstone?
:shout: Ladies don’t touch those eggs!
Candle them to see if there is any baby in there then leave it alone, wait and see! 😈😆 I have worked in chicken plants and farms…..yep,that’s what it looks like 😈
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Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.I looked at mine under better light ,no green but the pewter is starting to show.I guess I have rubbed that off with cleaning for so many years.I think I will try the goldleaf on it.
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Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.Kitsunelady, your macro picture taking skills are admirable. It’s tough to get clear shots of small things so close up!
Yes,something I need…A really good camera.Some of the photos I have seen here are remarkable and beautiful and I like to take pics..
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Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.Blackdesertwind wrote:Jennifer wrote:Actual gold leaf is real gold, and would not tarnish, so there is never a need to seal it.
The gold on Windstones is plated gold, and apparently there was a problem. 😮
Going to move this to Ask Melody just so she knows this is an issue!
Melody knows since Susie sent me a replacement but unfortunitly the other one has the same problem. I didn’t want to tell Melody or Susie because I didn’t want them to send another replacement.
I just wish I could do something. I’ll have to sell this one for less then what I paid because of it. 🙁
I don’t want someone else to have the problem either.Hi Natalie, I am stunned every time I see the beautiful pictures you take! But I am not too happy to see these, even though the green on the eggs is kind of nice… if it had been intentional.
I have been thinking over what could be going on with the plating, and I’m not sure I have the perfect answer yet, but we don’t seem to see this on our archived pieces like it has shown up with these new ones you received. I want the second one back as well to see how bad it is and if cleaning and sealing would restore the plating and stop the corrosion. Or we will replace it, or the egg.
After viewing the horns that were speckled all over I am thinking that the environment (whether here inside the boxes or in someone’s home) has to be part of it. The reason I am thinking this is that with horns there is a right and a left that are cast from different molds, maybe even on different days, they are kept somewhat separate during plating, etc. and for a right and a left to behave exactly the same is very suspicious.
The gold is plated over nickel which corrodes to green and the gold plating is very thin so if there is a spot where the gold doesn’t cover and there is something to cause the metal to corrode then green is what you will get. I have seen corrosion bloom from very small pits in the pewter that are hard to see after you remove the corrosion, and if sealed with oil or lacquer so moisture cannot get to it again the corrosion stops. I Think we will look at sealing the gold in the future with lacquer or wax but it is odd that this is happening all of a sudden.
I am going look into what would be the best thing to put over the plating and see if there isn’t a wax that could be applied that would be easy to put on and still seal it well enough. Lacquer is a little trickier to apply because it will ruin the paint if it drips and it may be hard to brush it out smoothly.
I checked my own mother she does not seem to have any spots (yet) my “old” scratcher does not have this issue….and my gold lap has horns that almost feel sealed but since it’s so new I can’t tell if there are spots or not.
I was shocked when I saw those pictures…I can get a lot of moisture in my bedroom during rainy summer months…I’m hoping Windstone can resolve this problem to avoid this from happening in the future.John wrote:Hi Natalie, I am stunned every time I see the beautiful pictures you take! But I am not too happy to see these, even though the green on the eggs is kind of nice… if it had been intentional.
I have been thinking over what could be going on with the plating, and I’m not sure I have the perfect answer yet, but we don’t seem to see this on our archived pieces like it has shown up with these new ones you received. I want the second one back as well to see how bad it is and if cleaning and sealing would restore the plating and stop the corrosion. Or we will replace it, or the egg.
After viewing the horns that were speckled all over I am thinking that the environment (whether here inside the boxes or in someone’s home) has to be part of it. The reason I am thinking this is that with horns there is a right and a left that are cast from different molds, maybe even on different days, they are kept somewhat separate during plating, etc. and for a right and a left to behave exactly the same is very suspicious.
The gold is plated over nickel which corrodes to green and the gold plating is very thin so if there is a spot where the gold doesn’t cover and there is something to cause the metal to corrode then green is what you will get. I have seen corrosion bloom from very small pits in the pewter that are hard to see after you remove the corrosion, and if sealed with oil or lacquer so moisture cannot get to it again the corrosion stops. I Think we will look at sealing the gold in the future with lacquer or wax but it is odd that this is happening all of a sudden.
I am going look into what would be the best thing to put over the plating and see if there isn’t a wax that could be applied that would be easy to put on and still seal it well enough. Lacquer is a little trickier to apply because it will ruin the paint if it drips and it may be hard to brush it out smoothly.
John, They both arrived directly from the factory that way, so it’s not caused by my environment.
I’ll send them back to you.I know my coiled mother didn’t arrive that way. >.> I have a picture I took about a day after I got her, as well as one I took in March of this year, and I can’t see green in either of them. I bought her in May of last year (she’s #2 of the Jade Silver coiled mothers), so she went through one Missouri summer of being on my dresser, windows open, etc, without any problems, as well as a winter. I keep my Windstones dusted, and out of direct sunlight.
My brown lap’s horns look okay. Aside from the orientals and my kirins, she’s the only gold-horned sculpt I have. 6.6 None of the critters with smooth gold horns (kirins, orientals) seem to have this problem? Well, at least the older ones. I do have an oriental with a small spot of peeling plating, but I don’t think that’s a related problem. I haven’t had the Amethyst or the Copper Patina for very long…and I don’t know if I could tell on the CP oriental anyhow. o.o;
Whatever the case, if you do figure out how to safely keep this from coming back, I’d also like to know. I don’t want to hurt one of my most expensive pieces. >__>;
I was just looking at my AL Coiled Mother I just won in the last couple weeks and she has a green spot on her egg…
Is there a way to stop the corrosion?
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