[Jewelry making - Article 00387] - Re: [Orchid] Rhodium plating safe thickness

[Rodney Carroll]

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    We have all been down this road. We (in the past) explained to
    customers what will happen to their white gold jewelry. Those people
    at the mall stores never tell them about this. Replating was not
    such a big deal until rhodium went from $1200 oz to over $6000 oz. We
    are over that because we switched over the X1 white gold from
    Stuller. I will take one hell of a polish if you use platinum polish.
    We have had some problems with mill stock wire being cracked coming
    from Stuller. We cast the X1 with no problems and we have even drawn
    it out to laser wire for a repair. I know that there are some other
    high white alloys out there but have not used them. 

Regards,
Rodney
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