[Jewelry making - Article 01313] - Re: [Orchid] Tungsten Carbide - Where have we been?

[Daniel Ballard]

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    Well I'm a precious metals advocate who believes we now may need
    three or more categories of jewelry. Please keep in mind I'm being
    general here to keep this short 

    1. "Fine Jewelry" Made with actual precious metals and genuine
    stones.  Gold platinum and high end sterling. 

    2. Fashion or costume (forgive the old term) jewelry- made with
    Silver or a less valuable base metal and usually including non
    genuine stones. Usually resembling fine jewelry in color or style.
    Often just base metals made to resemble the real thing. Gold plated
    etc. 

    3. Exotic or Strategic metal jewelry. Titanium, Niobium etc I may
    not have coined the best title here, but my concept is expensive non
    precious metals and often genuine stones like diamonds. Little or no
    attempt to look like fine jewelry. Bill Seeley of Reactive Metals
    fame advocates a semi precious metal category to be created and I
    could not agree more! 

    4. Semi exotic jewelry- Exotic metals like titanium but using non
    genuine stones. Would this protect us from *crossover devaluations of 
    our products? 

    The exotics deserve their own category and the buying public
    deserves clarity. 

    *By crossover I mean to avoid confusion among the public "If it has
    real diamonds its fine jewelry" Not if those diamonds re set in iron
    or titanium it isn't! 

Daniel Ballard
WWW.Pmwest.us

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