My favorite jewelry designs are ones that incorporate a bit of Gold in them. The most perfect ring to me is a Sterling Silver ring, with a big beautiful chunky stone (maybe Aqua Chalcedony?) and a Gold bezel. A co-worker of mine purchased a set of my Gold hand hammered bangles and just asked me the other day if I could make her two more! Of course!
It had been a long time since I bought any Gold supplies. The only two items of Gold on my list was 2ft of Gold filled wire and Gold solder.
Just to put it in perspective...
Less than one square inch piece of Gold Solder: $52.00
{as opposed to the bag of pre-cut Silver solder I bought for $2.80}.
2 ft of 12 ga Gold filled wire: $45.53.
Yikes. I will make the bangles this weekend and use up every little piece of wire I have left to use in other designs (I can melt the little pieces into small accent balls)...but that will be the last Gold I buy for awhile! With my shop as slow as it has been lately *sigh*, it isn't in my budget to spend so much on it considering it would make up a very small piece of each design. It is not a cheap thing to experiment with! I have burned up quite a few Gold bezels and could just kick myself for the amount I know it cost me. It is a good thing I love Sterling Silver so much!
4 comments:
Geez, I am so glad I don't work with gold! Those prices are exorbitant!!!
I just got my first piece of 9ct gold bezel and teeny bit of gold solder...wow there goes $60 on ... well on probably melted gold! lol...I am too scared to mess with it just yet. Isn't silver just the best?!!! :P
LOVE the bracelets! Gold is outrageous in price. I am glad most of my customers like silver. : )
Have a great weekend!
Health and happiness,
Angela
http://angelawalkerjewelry.blogspot.com/
yep, gold is kind of scary!
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