Gold plating equipment

[caroleallen]

Happy new Year everyone.

New year, new equipment!

I'm really wanting to start plating some of my pieces. It seems that a lot of the equipment available will only flash plate and I'm really only interested in plating to 2.5 microns so that I can call my jewellery "vermeil". Does anyone have any recommendations please?

[medusa]

doesn't the proper plating stuff have cyanide in it?

[Patstone]

Gold is beautiful on its own, why plate it.

[medusa]

I think Carole is talking about plating silver with gold, Pat.

[Patstone]

Ooooh. Sorry, should have found out what vermeil was before opening my mouth. Still thats something else I have learned today.

[caroleallen]

I'm not sure about the cyanide thing. That's something I'd like to know.

[Moon Willow]

Okay Carole

I have 3 A4 sheets which would be difficult to see on this page so I cropped a few sections which I hope are of use, the safety officer who gave them to me told a story of someone who wanted a pair of silver cufflinks gold plated (1 ) micron and was quoted £10.00

Carlton

[caroleallen]

Thanks for all the advice. I spoke to Spa Plating today and it all seems to be very complicated, what with calculating the surface area of the piece and also how much gold is present in the solution. I'm still mulling it over but I'm quickly going off the idea.

[coffejohn]

I see that Cooksongold sell a cyanide based silver plating solution, marked as hazardous, in the past I have purchased sodium cyanide but had to be a registered business and sign the poison book. Is this still required?

[Moon Willow]

Happy new Year everyone.

New year, new equipment!

I'm really wanting to start plating some of my pieces. It seems that a lot of the equipment available will only flash plate and I'm really only interested in plating to 2.5 microns so that I can call my jewellery "vermeil". Does anyone have any recommendations please?

Wow!!! that's a lot of gold, the "Central Chancery" C.B.E.'s only have 1 micron and that's a lot of gold, I reckon you'll have to double your prices at 2•5.

I use cyanide on tarnished jewels, we have a 3 x 3 ft vat full of it, I don't know the answer to the question but I can get hold of the cosh report in our plating department to list the chemicals used.

Carlton