[Jewelry making - Article 01180] - Re: [Orchid] Plating Silver with Paladium, Rhodium

[hans]

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Hi Noel,

    I totally agree with you.I have never liked plating, ever. For me,
    what you see is what you get.. Simple and plain. But the problem with
    silver is it does not keep its freshly polished colour, no matter
    what. And I make make many multi metal pieces. And when the metals
    that are lessprone to tarnishing, like titanium, niobium... keep
    their colour, but silver does not, then that one piece of metal
    causes problems, and requires periodic cleaning. That's more than as
    hassle when the polishing wheel touches your titanium background and
    leaves a nice white scar, and that's the piece that there actually
    was nothing wrong with that now has to be taken apart for redoing. (
    it has happened to me several times) I dislike both the colours of
    paladium and rhodium. Far better the silver colour. My perfect
    plating solution would be the same colour as freshly polished
    silver. 

    I would of course say on my valuation certificate that some sections
    are plated, and that has been done to keep the integrity of the
    piece, rather than trying to hide something. 

    I have played around with non-tarnishing silver alloys for a long
    time, and the platinum alloy seems very interesting. 

    To explain. 

    I made my self a watch band and watch casing out of silver. The
    casing is made out of silver alloyed with de-ox alloy. The next set
    links of the bracelet are made out of silver that is alloyed with
    7.25% platinum. The next set of links are made out of 10% plat
    /silver alloy. So far the casing has got black but the links are
    still silver looking. I will wear it for a year and the I will post
    photographs of the bracelet. But my gut feeling says it will go
    black eventually.

Cheers, Hans.
http://www.meevis.com
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