Gold-plated Umbilical cords.
I always told you that we at the Bronzing Studio bronze weird and wonderful things.
The umbilical cord (also called the birth cord ) is the connecting cord from the developing embryo or fetus to the placenta.It forms by the fifth week of fetal development.
Clamping is followed by cutting of the cord, which is painless due to the lack of any nerves. The cord is extremely tough, like thick sinew.
Some of our customers (mainly Asians) have the cords gold-plated because it is the closest link between mother and child.
Some people keep their Kidney stones or Gallbladder stones in a jar to remember the pain.
At the Bronzing Studio we never know in the morning what sort of items come in.
We even had a phone call to ask if we could Bronze a piece of foreskin. (Yuck)

Leave me a comment on my blog and tell me what you are thinking about Bronzed umbilical cords or bronzed foreskin.

A lot of people want to have their reflectors chrome-plated.

Please read below why we don’t chrome them.

Reflectors have originally in the old days been silver plated which produces white light. Continual polishing though was a bit of a bugger. So they decided to give the silver a “flash” of rhodium (a platinum metal). This stopped it from tarnishing. Silver plating in those days needed to be polished prior to the rhodium flash = labour cost. Thereafter it required an additional cleaning process prior to the rhodium flash = more labour and process costs.

Silver started to get expensive, so they turned to nickel instead.

This still required a rhodium flash to stop it from tarnishing. Instead of rhodium on top of nickel they could have used chrome. However using chrome would have given off a blue light which has a different wave length to the white light produced by silver, nickel with or without the rhodium flash, thus reducing greatly the distance that the light would travel = no good for driving around at night! In the meantime reflectors are made of plastic and not steel.

Like everything else in life people endeavour to produce smarter, cheaper, faster and better. “Vacuum Metallising” solved all these problems. In the process they were able to reduce the environmental impact caused by the plating process. Importantly though it gives off a white light!

Vacuum metallising covers the substrate with a very thin coat of aluminium. This is then coated with a weather and UV resistant lacquer.

The whole process is carried out under vacuum. Aluminium is then evaporated and deposited onto the substrate, which would be the reflector. The set up for such an automated process is extremely expensive and are mainly tied up with large in-house production facilities of car manufacturers.

Recommendation: try to find a “job shop” close to you.

It’s not all bad news though: Should you have any item made of plastic or fibre glass and you require a hard wearing and durable surface that will be handled a lot. Then our process is the way to go with an average of 150 um of copper, 30 um of nickel and a generous coat of chrome (usually measured in angstroms)1 angstrom = one hundred millionth of one centimetre.

Don’t ask me how many angstroms there are on the item, I really don’t know!

However we make sure that there is no nickel exposed. This is also referred to as a “nickel blow”.

We hope to have addressed your question adequately.

Bronzed Hot-cross bun and gold-plated Chocolate Easter bunny.

It’s this time of the year again. Christmas gone and Easter here.
I bet you never thought it possible to find those bronzed items on any website in the world.
I often wonder where that tradition comes from, giving chocolate (real not bronzed)and hot-cross buns for Easter! Why is it eaten at Easter? I am a bit of a loss to try and explain the beliefs and traditions that we associate with Easter. That is only my belief. I like chocolate all year round.
Why does the Hot-cross buns have a cross? Apparently the Pope made an exception for these rolls. Bakers marked the rolls with a cross to show that they had the Pope’s approval. As Easter marks the end of the Lenten fast, food is an important part of this festival. Wheat is another symbol of life and on Good Friday many people in Europe and North America eat hot cross buns.

“The Easter bunny probably has its origin in pre-Christian fertility tradition. The hare and the rabbit were the most fertile animals known and they served as symbols of new life during the blossoming Spring season.The bunny as an Easter symbol appears to have its origins in Europe, where it was first mentioned in German writings in the 1500′s.The first edible Easter bunnies were made in Germany during the early 1800′s, and were made of pastry and sugar”

We at the Bronzing Studio can preserve in Bronze, silver or 24 k gold everything imaginable.

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AT THE BRONZING STUDIO IT’S NOT ALL WORK AND NO FUN

The most likely use for electricity among the Parthians would have been the electroplating (sometimes referred to as bronzing) of figurines, an advance on the art of gilding which dated back centuries before them. The battery could have been used to apply a voltage between a metal statuette and an ingot of gold while both were immersed in an electrolyte. Gold would have been transferred through the liquid to be deposited as a thin film on the figure’s surface.

Similar clay pots have been found at other sites near Baghdad. They are a salutary reminder that our conceptions of mankind’s historical development are often based as much on ignorance as on knowledge of skills of a particular period.

Static electricity was known to the ancients: they knew, for instance, that when amber (in Greek elektron) was rubbed, it would attract light objects such as dust and hairs. So the technique of generating electrical current -which is electric charge in motion-, could have been an equally haphazard, isolated discovery centuries before it’s generally recognised initial use. Neither finding seemed to lead to further technological development or insight into the causes of the phenomenon, however, although some enthusiasts have claimed that the Parthians- and, before them, the ancient Egyptians – used electric light.

There are, indeed, enough soberly accredited anomalies of technology from the past to keep us well aware that some of our ancestors did develop their technology- and to astonishingly high levels.

At the Bronzing Studio we specialize electroplating (bronzing) on non-conductors; any base material but not metal. In order for us to electroplate (bronze) the organic materials, we need to make it conductive with a conductive paint. Then a small hole needs to be drilled to assemble the wires to conduct the electricity.

We really bronze about anything. Our logo is: If you can imagine it, we can bronze it.

In about 3 weeks I will have a new webpage with a photo gallery so that I can show you what we actually can and do bronze.

We get a lot of phone calls from women asking us about the price for full body bronzing. Sorry ladies that’s not what we bronze.

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN BRONZED BEANS? (Chilli con carne)

We are talking about a trophy that we did for the Big Brother Friday night Life games winner.

Big Brother is a reality television show where, in each series, a group of people live together in the Big Brother House, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Once a week on a Friday night Big Brother had a games night. In its 8^th weeks the theme of the game was “Mexican” and Jamie won the Chilli con carne prize related to the theme.

The Bronzing Studio contacted the coordinators of The Big Brother and mentioned that we could actually preserve and bronze the beans in the glass bowl and make it into a special (bronze) award .He didn’t win the major prize, hence not gold but bronze.

To cut a long story short we met up with Jamie which had the beans in his freezer to preserve it and handed it to us. He was thrilled to bits that he can have his award preserved for a lifetime and more.

Finally the momentum from the “Friday Night Games” has materialized.

We bronzed the chilli con carne in order to not only preserve the contents, but bronzing has always been synonym with preserving a cherished moment or milestone in ones life.

We chrome plated the glass bowl, so that every time he looks at it he can see a winner!

We believe that Jamie is the only person in the world if not universe to have such a unique memento all chromed and bronzed.