coming to ask if anyone has a suggestion on type/where to get silver/steel coloured rod stock?

i'd love it if it were similar in properties to the brass. so far all i'ver ever used was brass. sometimes i think silver pins/washers would look nicer on a blade so thats what im looking into. i bought some steel 1/16 rod stock. looks great, went to use it and was sorely disappointed. its way too hard to both cut and peen. not the type i want to use for the somewhat delicate operation of peening/making pins.

i'd like it to:
1 - be able to cut it with small wirecutters/fleshcutter
2 - peenable without too much difficulty. i don't wanna pound on the scales/rodstock inorder to peen it. so it needs to be maliable like brass.


thanks for suggestions. if you have a link to where i can get some also that would be even more fantastic!

thanks much,
~J