Le blog de Valou — pure1
A Golden experiment
After decades of working with my favorite metal, Sterling Silver…I finally decided to put a small investment into gold and see for myself the many ways these two metals differentiate. First of all, the hardness. I never realized how much the alloys added to 24K gold in fact made the metal stiffer and harder the lower the karat. I really like the color 14K has. I have worked with a Goldplater in the past for the rings and I always loved the warm light gold tone 14K has…so this is what I chose to test myself with. I sourced out the...