I'm keen to try making my own yellow and white gold alloys in rod form. I have two questions
1) what are the typical proportions to use (other than gold) for 9ct, 18ct yellow and white gold? There seems to be quite the variation out there. I don't want rose gold so I'm guessing copper needs to be kept to a minimum and have more silver in the yellow gold. For white should I have 10-15% Pd or less?
2) Any special tricks to melting gold/copper/silver/palladium components together so I get a nice alloy rod that can be used to make new jewellery
Many thanks CARIM
1) what are the typical proportions to use (other than gold) for 9ct, 18ct yellow and white gold? There seems to be quite the variation out there. I don't want rose gold so I'm guessing copper needs to be kept to a minimum and have more silver in the yellow gold. For white should I have 10-15% Pd or less?
2) Any special tricks to melting gold/copper/silver/palladium components together so I get a nice alloy rod that can be used to make new jewellery
Many thanks CARIM
