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Rhodium plated white gold: to polish or not to polish??

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tiffanylynn

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I have a white gold engagement ring and wedding band and am wondering if it is safe to use a ring polish on them or if this polish will remove the rhodium coating. I cannot seem to find an answer anywhere! Please help!!
 

Nick Toseland

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yeah i guess it would do, dont do it alot though.


my Fiance had a 18Ct WG engagement ring that lasted only 9 months before turning yellow. Upgrading to Platinum now.

 

PhillipSchmidt

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It takes a lot of polishing on a buff turning at 10,000 rpm to get rhodium off. If you want to take it off you need to emery paper it first. If your hand-rubbing it then it will be years before you get it off.

If I am wrong, let me know because I often need to remove rhodium, as it can discolour when you solder a ring that has it on. I then strip the piece by doing the reverse of plating and re-plate or I take it off the way decribed above.

I can polish a ring with rhodium quite a few times as it is a very wear resistent metal.

Hope this helps,

Phillip
 

imperial Jewels

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W.R. Cobb now produce a white gold called "precise white" that is an abosultely white gold, rather than a yellowish-white, that does away for the need of rhodium coating and its inherent problems. Run a google search on "W.R. Cobb precise white" for a list of distributors. Hope this helps!
 

PhillipSchmidt

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I have just finished making a piece using paladium white gold. There is no inherant need to plate that, as it is as white a w/g as you can get, but it would hurt. It depends on the person buying it if they want it plated.

Rhodium will always enhance a diamond. It is the whitest metal used in jewellery.

If you use rhodium on a very white metal there are advantages as scratches won''t be obvious when the underlying material is revealed. It never comes off under the setting where it counts.

Hope this helps,

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