[Jewelry making - Article 00214] - Re: [Orchid] Is White gold realty hot?

[Richard Hart]

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>     Is it just me or does anyone else out there think the pink gold
>     being made today is just ugly? It is way too PINK in my opinion.
>     Old pink gold's have that wonderful copper color. This new stuff
>     looks cheap to me. 

    I alloy my own gold, there are different alloys to produce different
    colors of red or pink gold. I think of the colors as a palate to
    choose the color for the effect I want in relationship to the
    gemstones that are being used, or in relation to how the color looks
    if I use white or yellow gold with the red/pink gold. 

    The pink gold used alone was too washed out looking, too light in
    color by itself for my taste. Used with David Fell's Winter White
    alloy in a two tone ring, it has enough contrast, but red gold is
    much better, especially if the red has a brush finish and the white
    is left polished. 

    My customers have not related any issues about the pink gold looking
    cheap, and it never crossed my mind. Some people just like the
    subtleness of the color. 

    I had one customer who after me touting the whiteness of the new
    alloy I was using, and showing him a sample of the traditional
    yellowish white gold, and Fell's Winter White, wanted the two part
    ring I make, one in each color of white gold, yellower gold brush
    finish, which made it yellower. (spell-check thinks yellowier is the
    right spelling? Can spell-check be wrong?) 

    This has given me an idea to use pink and red gold together. I would
    like to see what they look like together, and it gives me something
    my customers will not see anywhere else, and if it is a good design,
    it will sell. 

Richard Hart
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