Hi this is Lewis from Gold Plating Services.
Today we thought you know it's Mother's Day coming up, so we plate something using our
Rose Gold solution for you.
We got a just a standard kind of stainless-steel measuring cup and to plate it we're going
to be using four different solutions.
Our electro clean, TriVal, our gel brush Gold and our Rose Gold solution.
Rob is going to be plating the item for us and he'll talk about it as he does it, just
to show you a little bit more, tell you more and we'll see how it turns out.
We haven't done one of these before we thought it just kind of looked cool.
Alright thanks Lewis.
We're just going to get right into it.
We're only going to do the inside of the cup.
We thought it would be cool to just have the inside rose gold and the outside just stay
stainless steel.
So, we're going to electro clean it lets carry a lot of solution, so I'm going to pour some
back.
We're going to electro clean it for about half of a minute.
We're doing this at 7 volts.
I've been getting a lot of people asking what our rose how our brush rose gold works and
what it looks like, so we are excited to show you this one.
You rinse it out and what we're looking for here is just like all other stainless steel
is for it to wet out and it looks like it did.
It takes quite a bit of rinsing here.
Okay now we're going to go to the TriVal which is a strike just like Wood's Nickel strike,
but the nice thing about this one is it actually applies gold, now it's a gold strike.
The reason that's nice is you can actually see the areas that you've struck well and
see any areas that you may have missed.
With Wood's Nickel strike you have no idea you have to just remember where you've got
and just trust that you did it well.
Which most of the time works fine, but some people do have problems where they miss a
spot and when you miss a spot it's not very fun.
We got the sides already nice and struck.
Let’s get the bottom, okay that'll do.
Let’s rinse it out probably should've had a little bit better squirt bottle here.
Alright now we're going to put on a thin layer of the 24k Brush Gold using the gel.
This is really a standard practice when you're doing a rose gold to put a yellow gold underneath.
A lot of people ask me do I have to, the answer is no you don't have to you technically could
especially with the TriVal gold strike just put the rose gold on top of it, but it is
an industry standard to do so.
Alright you see a nice yellow gold color in there you could stop there, it actually looks
pretty cool like that, but what I'm going to do is undo the thumb screw, hook up the
rose gold here.
Well I'm just going to go straight for it.
See it turn that nice pink rosy color, people are loving the rose gold lately.
Especially in the jewelry field, this time of year with Mother's Day and stuff like that
it really is a big hit.
Believe it or not there's not very many good rose gold solutions out there in fact this
is the only one I've ever used that works well.
When we were trying to find a rose gold solution, we tried about everything you can find and
it's really hard to find a good one.
I've actually about got it plated, need it one more time.
Hopefully you can see on the inside of that alright, once we get the solution our we can
look at it a little bit better.
I'll probably give this one to my mom for Mother's Day and plate up a couple of other
ones.
Alright, good enough let's check it out.
Let me dip it in this beaker hereto rinse it and take a look at it.
See if look how it looks.
It looks a lot like copper.
Rose gold actually is a mixture of copper and gold.
The difference between rose gold and plain copper is that the little bit of gold actually
keeps it from corroding.
If that were just copper plated that would look a completely different color really quickly,
especially after a load in the dishwasher.
I think that will hold up really well and be a great Mother's Day gift, so yeah get
yourself some of this Rose Gold it works really well for car emblems, all sorts of stuff.
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