[Jewelry making - Article 00577] - Re: [Orchid] White gold without rhodium plating

[James Binnion]

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>>          I saw a sample of an 18K Palladium white gold at the Platina
>>      Casting booth at the MJSA show. It was nearly as white as Platinum.
>>      Platina is located in NYC.

>         Thanks, Joel.  18K?  Really!  I used some 14K Palladium white
>     for fabrication and really liked it but still detected a pale
>     yellow cast. Different source, I suppose but would love to see this
>     18K white. 

    There are two families of palladium white golds, the low palladium
    alloys  and high palladium alloys. The high palladium alloys are
    very a nice grey color and have no detectable yellow tint in 14k and
    only the barest hint of it in 18k. The low palladium alloys have a
    definite yellow tint. Due to the high cost of palladium many are
    willing to live with a slight yellow tint it is still way better
    than many of the so called white alloys that are nickle based. 

Jim Binnion

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