[Jewelry making - Article 00998] - Re: [Orchid] Rhodium plating

[Cliff & Julie Hockley]

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    I have had no experience with plating so I am quite nieve in this
    subject. I was chatting with an aquaintance who was wearing a
    beautiful tanzanite and diamond bracelet she purchased in a tourist
    town in Alaska. She had seen it in yellow gold and wanted it in white
    gold. She was told it was no problem come back in fifteen minuites
    and you would have it in white gold. They told her that they would
    plate it in rhodium. When she returned it was a beatiful white color.
    They then told her that it was now white gold. They went on to say
    that the plating goes so deep that if you cut a link in half the
    only part that would be yellow was the very center sliver so that the
    white would never wear off. 

    Now I am new to metalwork and as I stated I have never plated, but
    this does not make sense to me. If indeed you can turn yellow gold
    into white, why can't I turn copper into yellow gold? Or for that
    matter when you rhodium plate silver why does'nt it turn into white
    gold? 

    I'm pretty sure someone will tell me she got scammed but I could be
    wrong. If someone would be so kind as to further explain the plating
    process I would appreciate it. 

Julie Hockley
Portland, Oregon.

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