[Jewelry making - Article 00216] - Re: [Orchid] Experience with cyanide-free gold-plating?

[stevens]

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>             Nontoxic gold plating, sounds too good to be true. Have
>     you people tried this? What is your experiences? Does it work, does
>     it look like old fashioned plating? 

    Close enough... 

>         Is it strong enough?  

    I was satisfied with the results. 

>         I`m planning to buy a system for plating national costume
>     silver. And for sure, I would love to not have the cyanids! 

    The non-cyanide liquids I own are still toxic -- I wear eye
    protection, gloves, and apron to protect from exposure to strong
    acids.  Good ventilation is needed.  It's really quite easy to
    splash yourself with all the moving of the pieces from one liquid to
    another, pouring the liquids into beakers, etc. And you still have to
    keep kids and animals out of the area. 

>         For gold, silver and cleaning! If its good enough... Which
>     system works well at a reasonable price both to use and to buy? I
>     have been surfing around, but I`m still not wise..... 

    Mine are from Rio, and they work.  But it's such a production that
    I've stopped using them (and, plating doesn't actually go with my
    recent work, anyway).  If you can devote time for special plating
    days, I'd say go for it. It  takes more time than I had imagined;
    you're constantly having to run back to the table to make a transfer
    of the pieces from one solution to the other. You're not going to be
    able to do a lot of pieces with a small system, of course, unless
    you have a *lot* of time.

mbstevens
http://www.mbstevens.com/

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