Plating and Electroforming


Plating and electroforming allow jewelry makers to add ultrathin layers of metal to surfaces. Our articles cover the tools and techniques you’ll need.

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Electroplating Jewellery

Electroplating Jewellery

Electroplating is a method to put a metal coating onto an object, in our case a piece of jewellery, by...
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Recent Electroforming Developments

Recent Electroforming Developments

Electroforming is an old, established technology and, in its original form, it was a bit cumbersome to use. However, as...
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Electroplating Safety Precautions

The "General Safety Rules for Tools" article applies here too, as with all power tools. Read the instruction manuals and...
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Electroforming Step-by-Step

Electroforming Step-by-Step

Electroforming is the process of controlling the metal deposit from an anode metal, through electrolyte solution, onto an electroconductive surface....
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Testing the Rhodium Plating Technique

Testing the Rhodium Plating Technique

Plenty of information has been published about how rhodium plating solutions should behave under ideal conditions-but little data and real-world...
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A New Platinum Sterling Silver

A New Platinum Sterling Silver

It took about two months of experimentation to get the formulas for Platinum Sterling Silver just right - Robinson created...
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Aluminum: Welded and Wearable

Aluminum: Welded and Wearable

The purpose of this paper is to acquaint the reader with the advantages and disadvantages of utilizing aluminum as a...
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Process of Cleaning Metal Surfaces

For all metal coloring and electroplating a clean metal surface is essential. The cleaning process must remove mineral oils, organic...
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Electroforming Workshop Preparation

The size of the bath must correspond to the rectifier. You cannot have a huge bath and a small rectifier....
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Resists and Electroplating to Create Patterns

Resists and Electroplating to Create Patterns

With the ever-higher cost of precious metals, many jewelers are increasingly working with non-precious metals such as stainless steel, titanium,...
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Electroforming for Innovative Design

Electroforming for Innovative Design

There are four principal methods of producing jewellery today: Hand making, using traditional craft skills, Investment (Lost wax) Casting, Pressing...
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Vermeil Jewelries

Vermeil Jewelries

Considering metals prices continue to be sky high, it's no surprise that plating companies' phones are ringing off the hook....
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Enameling on Electroformed Vessels

Enameling on Electroformed Vessels

June Schwarcz (b.1918) in Denver, CO. She is a Fellow of the American Craft Council and received their Gold Medal....
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Architectural Portraits of Vicki Ambery-Smith

Architectural Portraits of Vicki Ambery-Smith

For nearly 30 years, Ambery-Smith has been using architecture as an inspiration for her work. Her name has become synonymous...
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American Holloware Changing Criteria

American Holloware Changing Criteria

The expressions which have come to identify the pre- and post-World War II generations - Me decade, suburban frontiersmen, spoiled...
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Patinating Brass Alloys Using Contact Plating

This procedure should be undertaken with appropriate precautions; goggles, gloves, protective clothing, adequate ventilation. Recently I have been presented with...
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The Work of June Schwarcz

The Work of June Schwarcz

There are few artists who can subtly control the relationship between what they perceive and the manner in which this...
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The Contemporary American Custom Goldsmithing

The Contemporary American Custom Goldsmithing

About five years ago, Robert Fairbank, John Reynolds and I created a "living entity" called Goldsmiths 3 in Concord, Massachusetts....
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