This is Lewis with Gold Plating Services today we're going to show you how we
plate with Rose Gold. We're going to take this bell here and we're going to put a
very nice Rose Gold finish on it to do that we're using four different
solutions today we have our Electro Cleaner, TriVal, our gel brush Gold and a
brush Rose Gold. We got Rob over here, he is going to be doing the plating for us and
he'll tell you a little bit more about it as he goes. Alright first you got to
find a spot to clip, get right here. Alright this is the regular Universal
plater we've got the voltage set to 8.3 before it'll drop down to around 7 while
plating which is what we're looking for.
So we're gonna go ahead and electro clean it. I'm actually going to break this
bell in half just to make it go smoother and increase the chances of getting a
good job if you try and do too big of an area in an odd shape like this all in
one go you can encounter some issues.
We're going to be featuring the TriVal today instead of the regular Woods
Nickel Strike that a lot of people use on stainless steel
I like TriVal a lot. I like it more than the Woods Nickel Strike, they both do the
same job. The difference is the TriVal delivers a gold strike instead of nickel
and especially if it were a piece of jewelry or something that's really
important, but the other big thing is which you'll see in a minute is that it
actually applies a thin layer of gold and so you're able to see that the area
struck well. That's really weird that it didn't wet out. Let's go on and see what
happened. I'm gonna leave the same voltage and hit it with the TriVal
I'm wondering if this item may be chrome-plated even though it said it was
stainless steel. It's very odd that it didn't wet out from the electro cleaner
but is taking the strike as you see it's turning a gold color let's just move on
and see what happens that's uh that does happen in this line of work stuff will
be labeled as one thing and it turns out it's got a coating or something on it.
TriVal as an interesting point will actually plate directly onto Chrome you
don't want to do it as a matter of practice because what happens is
eventually the the chrome will actually kind of had an I don't know how to
explain it on a electrochemical level but eventually the gold will fall off
sooner than if you strip the chrome and plate the nickel. Back in the late 90s
people started trying to skip stripping the nickel running the chrome and just
going straight over it with the gold strike and that's why gold packages
you'll see people driving around with really ugly gold packages on their cars
and it's because they didn't strip the chrome. They thought they were saving a
step and really it compromises the quality, but for this video we're more
interested in showing you what the Rose Gold looks like so I'm just gonna
proceed even though that was a complete surprise. Let's get it all struck real
quick then we'll Gold plate it and then we'll put on Rose Gold. Now a lot of people ask
us do I have to Gold plate it first before I put the Rose Gold on the answer
technically is no you do not you can still get the Gold to go on, but as a
matter of practice it's an industry standard practice to put Yellow Gold
underneath Rose Gold. As for why I would say it's because your chances of getting
a good Rose Gold plate are better also I guess if the Rose Gold were to ever
wear off you have Yellow Gold underneath instead of a Silver color which is more
of a contrast. Alright that's struck well enough I
would think let's go ahead and put a Yellow Gold plate on and then we'll show
you what the Rose Gold looks like. We'll turn the voltage down just a little bit and
we'll go ahead and plate it. It should be turning gold really fast I mean I
already was tinted but this is definitely a darker deeper rich yellow
gold color that this will apply and since we're gonna be Rose Gold plating
and I'm just gonna put a thin layer on here. This could be someone's Mother's
Day gift as we got Mother's Day coming up their mom was a secretary or
something she could have a rose gold bell. Alright
okay now I got it generally gold-plated if I were doing this for a customer I
would certainly spend a little bit more time and do a little bit better job for
them. Okay so now I'm gonna take the handle off from the gold I'll put it
down here to the Rose Gold. Let's see how it goes. See it turning that pink
color it's not quite as quick as the Yellow Gold is but it is you see it goes
on pretty quickly it's not slow by any means. We're operating right now at about
5.5 volts while plating if I was gonna do this again I'd probably use a woolly
sleeve for all the solutions just to get some better you know quicker coverage of
the area carries more solution,
but you know as you can see it has like a nice pink, coppery color that people
are really into these days and especially with Mother's Day coming up a
lot of jewelers are doing Rose gold. and there you have it I hope you can see the
color of the Rose Gold still a little bit of Yellow Gold on that stem to
compare it to and that's it that's our Rose Gold plating solution for you. And
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