[Jewelry making - Article 00027] - Re: [Orchid] Gold plating fine silver for enameling

[Justine Wetherington]

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    I would have answered this sooner but I had hoped that someone had
    better answers than I did. I really, really wanted to read them. I
    got a pen plater from Caswell (no cyanide). It really does not like
    sterling. 

    Two days ago I got the Midas plating guide from Rio. It says that
    the gold solutions WILL plate over silver but will discolor or
    tarnish. They do not differentiatebetween sterling or fine silver.
    There may or may not be one. 

    The book says that one should first plate the silver with Bright
    Nickel Pen Plating Solution and then gold it. 

    I need a solution for the same reason you do - warm color enamels on
    a silver piece. Yup ! That's what I want and I have got a bazillion
    new grey hairs trying to get them right. I have also polished an
    expanded vocabulary. 

    Let us communicate further with our wins and losses. 

Justine
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