Get me information about gold vs silver?
Q.The list has been quiet, polite, and subdued lately....I wondered if it is time to liven things up. Lately in classes & over the coffee there has been some debates going here in the Northwest USA about silver vs gold jewelry. I thought the r.c.j group might like to join in. It initially started when a gold jeweler was exclaiming about how much easier gold is then silver to work. Then it progressed to how if you were going to make a living as a jeweler you must become a gold and gem jeweler and leave silver and cabochons behind. The battle lines were drawn...in the most civil manner. Let me see if I can sum up the two sides: GOLD & other high cost metals +More precious---you can charge more for a piece of gold jewelry then a silver piece involving the same amount of work +If you are going to make a living as a jeweler you MUST eventually work with gold. You can't make a living as a silver jeweler. +Looks better with "gems" Meaning faceted-high cost stones, these have more appeal and you can charge more for them. +Easier to work with, it doesn't fire scale!!!! Plus it works like "butter" +The material that "real" jewelers work with, silver is for apprentices and beginning jewelers +Has snob/$$$ appeal +More colorful because of the colored gems SILVER +Jewelers tend to fabricate in it more as opposed to cast, so they learn a wider range of metalsmithing techniques and feel like they are more "real" craftman +Feeling that even poor design will sell in gold and gems because of the flash appeal, while in silver jewelry designs must be better, so silver jewelers are better designers +Concern that many of the gold jewelers are just experts in wax, as others cast their work and set their stones....ie: "real" jewelers work with metal not wax +Resent that good silver jewelry is not a way to make a living that one must go to gold to earn enough money to live on +Feel looked "down" on by their gold and gem brethren because of their work with the "lowly" silver. Someone said its the difference between black and white photography (silver) and color (gold etc) photography. So r.c.j folks. What do you all think about this?
A.- Some of my clients only wear gold, a few others only wear silver. Some only like metal, some stone, and the rest (majority) may have a preference but will wear anything. Professional jewelers have enough challenges working with these metals wit
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