[Jewelry making - Article 01116] - Re: [Orchid] Plating Silver with Paladium, Rhodium

[Helen Hill]

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>     I looked at your blog to read about metal halide case lighting,
>     and read on about silver and plating. It always seems a shame to me
>     to hide one metal under another (in this case, for those who didn't
>     see the blog, silver under palladium under rhodium 

    I did exactly the same thing and your take is exactly my own feeling
    on the subject. Silver has a wonderful colour which is much warmer
    than the platinum group metals and so I would hate to plate it. Also
    for me, the word "plated" conjours up an inherent "cheapness" with
    regard to quality so I don't really want to get into plating myself.
    When I can afford to work in gold, I will use palladium white which
    I am told does not need to be plated as it is already a lovely white
    colour. It won't be for a while yet - I thought about it yesterday
    when putting this month's silver order together, and one small piece
    of gold would have wiped out my entire order, meaning that I
    couldn't do any creating at all, other than a small gold piece! 

    Having said all of that though, I don't live near the sea and so
    don't have the problem of silver tarnishing so quickly. If Hans's
    silver jewellery is looking old due to having to polish it so often
    then I guess plating is the way forward as I'm sure any customers
    living in the same area would also not be happy at their beautiful
    pieces tarnishing all the time. 

Helen
UK
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