[Jewelry making - Article 00031] - Re: [Orchid] Rhodium plating

[Andy Parker]

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    Whilst I agree that your friend was lied to it may not have been on
    purpose. I have made several pieces for a sales assistant at a local
    retail jewellers (shows good taste, what?) and when discussing metal
    for a current project - a large sunstone ring I mentioned white gold
    and was asked "Oh you do plating do you?" because " white gold is
    just yellow gold plated over". That was a firmly held belief by this
    pleasant, honest woman- presumably what she had been taught! I
    explained the error, nicely. We settled on 18k yellow for her
    sunstone. Mind you it could have been true as far as most of the
    mass-produced merchandise in the store where she works! 

Andy Parker, Agate House Lapidary
Ulverston, Cumbria, England
andy AT agatehouse.co.uk
http://www.agatehouse.co.uk
Tel: 01229 584023

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