The most common plating is rhodium plating or 'dipping' white gold rings. We also plate in yellow gold. We do not plate in rose gold.
Fox Fine Jewelry plates gold, silver, and costume jewelry.
Rhodium plating or dipping
Plating in white is done with rhodium, which is a platinum metal. It is sometimes called dipping.
Virtually all new white gold jewelry is rhodium plated. This is because white gold isn’t bright white. The rhodium makes the white gold bright white, shinier, and more scratch resistant.
Like all plating, rhodium wears off over time, usually beginning with the areas that get touched the most. For example, the backside of rings and the tips of the prongs.
Rhodium plating begins at $72 and includes cleaning, polishing, and rhodium plating.
We're sorry, we only plate for walk-in clients
If you are not local to our store in Ventura, CA, we recommend contacting your local jeweler.
Sterling silver and costume jewelry can be plated white or yellow gold.
Plating FAQ's
We're sorry, but we only plate for walk in clients at our Ventura, CA store.
If you are unable to come in, we recommend you contact your local jeweler.
White rhodium plating (from the platinum metal family): Most smaller items are $72. Larger items are by quote.
Yellow gold plating: Most smaller items are $150. Larger items are by quote.
Plating in yellow gold or white rhodium (from the platinum metal family) is $150 for small items. Larger items are by quote.
Fox Fine Jewelry does a thick coating. Nonetheless, all plating wears off over time. This happens more so on rings and bracelets because they receive more contact.
How long it lasts:
- Rhodium plating white gold rings - usually 1 - 4 years, although the length can be much shorter or longer depending on your body chemistry (especially bleach or chlorine), contact with chemicals, and the amount of contact your ring receives.
- White, yellow or rose gold pendants and earrings - can last many years
- Changing a ring color by plating - we do not recommend this, except for occasional wear. Instead we recommend you remake your jewelry in your preferred metal color.
If you're plating a different color than the underlying color, the base color will show more quickly.
You can change the metal color with plating, but we only recommend this for earrings and pendants, and rings that you wear occasionally.
The amount of wear and type of care you take will impact how quickly the base metal color begins to show. It is common to have to replate.
We recommend remaking your jewelry in your desired metal color.
We plate sterling silver, brass, copper, and some steel.
We do not plate aluminum, cobalt, pewter, titanium, zinc, tin, lead (called "pot metal"), or organic materials like leather, shells and leaves.
We can plate over many stones, provided they are set (not glued in).
Stones we plate over:
Diamond, moissanite, cubic zirconia (CZ), and some imitation stones.
Stones we do not plate over:
Porous stones like amber, coral, pearls, opals, turquoise, lapis, larimar and others. These stones must be removed before plating and reset afterwards.
Other stones not listed:
It depends on the piece. When you stop in with your jewelry, we'll let you know!
Rhodium plating over white or yellow gold starts at $72.
Rhodium plating and gold plating over items that are not gold starts at $150.
We're sorry, but we only plate for walk in clients at our Ventura, CA store.
If you are unable to come in, we recommend you contact your local jeweler.
White rhodium plating (from the platinum metal family): Most smaller items are $72. Larger items are by quote.
Yellow gold plating: Most smaller items are $150. Larger items are by quote.
Plating in yellow gold or white rhodium (from the platinum metal family) is $150 for small items. Larger items are by quote.
Fox Fine Jewelry does a thick coating. Nonetheless, all plating wears off over time. This happens more so on rings and bracelets because they receive more contact.
How long it lasts:
- Rhodium plating white gold rings - usually 1 - 4 years, although the length can be much shorter or longer depending on your body chemistry (especially bleach or chlorine), contact with chemicals, and the amount of contact your ring receives.
- White, yellow or rose gold pendants and earrings - can last many years
- Changing a ring color by plating - we do not recommend this, except for occasional wear. Instead we recommend you remake your jewelry in your preferred metal color.
If you're plating a different color than the underlying color, the base color will show more quickly.
You can change the metal color with plating, but we only recommend this for earrings and pendants, and rings that you wear occasionally.
The amount of wear and type of care you take will impact how quickly the base metal color begins to show. It is common to have to replate.
We recommend remaking your jewelry in your desired metal color.
We plate sterling silver, brass, copper, and some steel.
We do not plate aluminum, cobalt, pewter, titanium, zinc, tin, lead (called "pot metal"), or organic materials like leather, shells and leaves.
We can plate over many stones, provided they are set (not glued in).
Stones we plate over:
Diamond, moissanite, cubic zirconia (CZ), and some imitation stones.
Stones we do not plate over:
Porous stones like amber, coral, pearls, opals, turquoise, lapis, larimar and others. These stones must be removed before plating and reset afterwards.
Other stones not listed:
It depends on the piece. When you stop in with your jewelry, we'll let you know!
Rhodium plating over white or yellow gold starts at $72.
Rhodium plating and gold plating over items that are not gold starts at $150.
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