White Gold Compound

The color of white gold.

White gold compound.

Intermetallic compounds producing blue and purple golds as well as other colors. The properties of white gold including its color depend on its composition. Without the rhodium coating white gold might be gray dull brown or even pale pink. I was introduced to white gold when i first started carving seriously.

These are typically malleable alloys. Although most people think white gold is a shiny white metal that color is actually from the rhodium metal plating that is applied to all white gold jewelry. Alloys with silver and copper in various proportions producing white yellow green and red golds. Colored golds can be classified in three groups.

Pure gold is slightly reddish yellow in color but colored gold in various other colors can be produced. Whether you use a wood carving knife or just your. Put it on a leather strop and three times on each side of the blade will give you a razor sharp knife.