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375(9ct) Gold: Varying tones?
I am planning on working with 375(9ct) gold very soon. There are varying tones from red gold up to yellow gold depending on the ratio of silver to copper. I plan to use what appears to be an industry standard yellow (37.5% gold, 42.5% silver, 20.0% copper). My concern is that anyone purchasing a pendant I made might have a 375 yellow gold chain with a different ratio of silver & copper.
- Is the difference between the varying yellow gold tones obvious?
- Has anyone here selling jewellery ever worked with 375 yellow gold and had a customer complain about the tone?
Thanks in advance.
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The difference will be subtle, but not unpleasant.
I would suggest that if you care enough, you start with some favourite chain and then compare small samples of thin sheet, for reference, from different suppliers. Dennis
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There will always be one customer but luckily they’re the exception. A woman wouldn’t buy a pair of oxidised silver pod earrings because one or 2 of the 12 sides weren’t a uniform shade. She liked that they were from nature but wouldn’t accept any variation
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I've read in more than one place that jewellery manufacturers keep their alloy mix "a closely guarded secret". Who are they kidding? The LAO has a laboratory service which offers "complete compositional analysis of metal alloys: for gold, silver, platinum, palladium and other elements, using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF)."
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