A titanium frame welds clean and silver-white — until it suddenly isn’t. One pulse too long without gas and the weld goes blue, then grey, and you’re grinding it back and starting again. Here’s the thing most people get wrong: the blue isn’t a heat problem. It’s an oxygen problem. Fix the gas timing and…
Every jeweler who buys a laser welder asks the same thing before the first job: “Is it safe to weld near the stone?” Fair question — you don’t melt a customer’s emerald to fix a prong. The honest answer: a pulse welder is far safer than a torch around stones, because the heat goes into…
Short answer: yes, a laser welder can weld silver — but silver is the honest test of a machine. It reflects most of the light back until it actually melts, so a weak pulse just skates off the surface and leaves a mess. If a machine handles silver cleanly, it’ll handle everything else on your…