[Jewelry making - Article 01692] - Re: [Orchid] Palladium alloy for 18K white

[Gary]

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>     ...snip As far as color...I find the PD-Gold alloys to be somewhat
>     greyish. But that's what rhodium is for. 

    In my opinion, rhodium plating rings is a bad idea - customers get
    p**sed off when it wears away and has to be re-plated. If they want a
    white metal, make it with a white metal; white gold is a poor
    substitute. But there again, some people (my wife is one of them)
    like the off-white colour of white gold (but she also likes the
    whiteness of palladium - she says she prefers it to platinum). 

Regards, Gary Wooding
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