[Jewelry making - Article 00346] - Re: [Orchid] White gold, boom or bubble?

[Eric McCafferty]

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Good Morning,

    As for location, I am up in Sonoma County, but we are wholesale, so
    as far as geography, it doesn't seem to matter. I have a stronger
    presence on the coasts, less in the Midwest, some in the south.
    Really the only thing I have noticed, my galleries tend to sell more
    of the high carat yellow, with the traditional stores selling more in
    the 14k when it is yellow. When the rose is purchased its seems
    pretty even across the board, gallery or traditional, east or west
    coast. 

    Two tones, which is a trend that always seems to come and go. Our
    rings can be done as a two tone upon request. When we first started
    doing them that way (ten years ago) huge demand, then after a few
    years it died down. Seems for the last 18 months or so we were maybe
    doing two or three a month as a two tone, now over the last two
    months we are doing four or five a week. 

    As for the nickel being outlawed, I hadn't heard that one. But when
    you consider the push Stuller has been making with there x1 white,
    which has high nickel content, and the fact that neither snag or any
    of the trade mags have started the propaganda machine of the evil of
    nickel, I wouldn't be worried about that one yet. 

Thank You,
Eric McCafferty
Studio311.com
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