Thread: Nickel-silver pinning rods in the Netherlands

Originally Posted by Bruno

True. the Dutch are way ahead of us in terms of online presence. doing a search in Dutch language nearly always results in Dutch webpages. It is really sad. Even the local daycare where I live uses an email address in the telenet domain (a national ISP) instead of having their own domain name.

Funny you should say that, because I only rarely notice Belgian websites popping up in my searches. I had not considered that until you mentioned it.

Originally Posted by kalerolf

Maby you can find those rods in nederland by homepage 132001

I tried, but I was unable to find them. In fact, they used to sell brass rods and have stopped that, so I count myself lucky I ordered mine on time.

Originally Posted by Oakeshott

What's the difference between the two? Is it just looks or is there a performance difference to take into account. I've been repinning with brass and never even considered another type.

For me, just the looks. I think for some scales, silvery metal would look better than golden.

Microscrews no longer sells rods but you can find them in metal/tool shops for about €3 per meter perhaps?

Check your German and Dutch ebay equivalent. I have seen pinning kits there at a good value.

Found some! It turns out nickel-silver has quite a few nicknames (German silver, Argentan, new silver, nickel brass, albata, alpacca, or electrum).
At de Zilverwinkel | Edelsmid gereedschap they sell alpaca wire, 1m for some 5 euros. The first result looks very promising.

Nog 1 waar je stafmateriaal kan verkrijgen. Volgens mij verkopen ze ook ringetjes.
http://metaalwinkel-metalen.nl/index...m=5&aitem=2310