Yes. The company built two 24 karat gold plated cars for an American Express promotional campaign. A third car was later produced using the spare parts from the first two. These cars are featured among our Unique DeLoreans section of this website.

Gold plated plugs can actually cause problems. When plugged in to a regular nickel plated socket, the dissimilar metals can create distortion (through a slight diode action). The real benefit of gold plated connectors is that they do not tarnish, but they must be mated with gold sockets.

We use gold because it doesn’t corrode and also has better contact than silver conductors and looks excellent.

We finish our mouthpieces in gold because gold is softer and more comfortable on the lips, it holds moisture better, and it protects the mouthpiece better than silver.

Yes. Gold Vermeil is usually 22 or 23kt Gold plated on Sterling Silver. Gold-filled is usually 12kt Gold plated on Base Metal.

No, but during breaks on Phil Spector and Sonny & Cher sessions (She and Sonny are singing backgrounds on "That Lovin' Feeling") she would often answer phones and greet guests while visiting with our secretary.

Most of our designs by Arabesque are now available by special order in 14k and 18k gold. Most items not listed on our Prices page can also be made as a custom order. All of our gold jewelry is pure gold, so while it is more expensive than gold-plated or gold-toned, it is also of a much higher quality. When a product is advertised as "Gold Tone" or "Silver Tone" it means that there is a thin coating of some kind (brass or nickel) over an inexpensive base metal (iron etc.).

Yes, this is called selective plating. Designated areas of the metal object can be plated with yellow, rose and green gold deposits. It also is used for selectively restoring gold plating on metal objects when traditional plating is not suitable due to the fragility of the piece.

Gold plated rings have the Gold electroplated on top of silver, where the Gold will eventually wear off. Gold-Filled rings have the Gold bonded onto the base metal, so the Gold will last longer, yet remain affordable. Solid Gold of course is just that, making it more expensive. For more details, please see our Gold Toe Rings selection page [ Back to Top ]

Absolutely not! When you select the white karat gold option, the item will be 10k or 14k white gold all the way through.

Don't waste your money on "hyped" imported cables with gold plated connectors. The thin soft gold (5-10 microns) "flash" plating looks cool, but scrapes off easily. The brass material underneath prevents you from seeing that the gold has worn off! That brass eventually tarnishes and causes crackling when the plug moves or twists in the socket contacts. Gold is a very good conductor of electricity and helps to reduce contact resistance, but only when mated with a gold plated socket.

All gold chains at Vanshi are either in 18Karat gold or in 22 karat gold, designed specially to match our pendants. None of the chains are gold plated .

Mostly, I do not. All of the silver I use is Sterling Silver or better. Sterling silver is 92.5% pure silver. I use some silver beads and components that come from the Karen Hill Tribe in Thailand. These silver beads and components are 95% silver. The rest of the sterling silver beads come from India, Turkey, Israel, China, Bali, Nepal and the USA, and maybe a few other places as well. The gold wire I use is 14K gold-filled. Occasionally I will use 12K gold-filled beads or components.

Mouthpieces with special plating and/or finishes are NON-CANCELABLE and NON-RETURNABLE. Please read our plating policies before ordering mouthpieces with special plating or finishes.

They are plated with pure Titanium Nitride to enhance their durability and provide greater lubricity for extraction. Titanium Nitride is the same material that is used to coat heavy-duty drill bits.

The thickness range should be between 7- 10 microns. In some Swiss watch products a high karat gold plated layer of 10-30 microns are sometimes utilized.

Yes, we can replate any stainless steel watch with a gold plated finish. As an alternative, we can also replate your watch with a bright "chrome-like" metal called "Rhodium". Similar in color to stainless, rhodium is a precious metal finish that virtually never tarnishes and is extremely durable. For an even more exotic look we can even replate your watch in platinum!

Answer: No. If a client requests it, then a commission piece can be made with STERLING SILVER or GOLD wire. This however will be reflected in the final price of the piece as the cost of precious metal wire is more than plated copper wire.

Gold plating baths are first modified by adding other metal alloys to the mixture. The addition of copper will enable us to electroplate gold with a "rose" colour. Alloys of silver will create plated gold that has a green hue to its colour. By modifying the bath temperature, different tints of these colours can be achieved.

The Alnico rod magnet material can be plated with may types of plating such as nickel, black nickel, chrome and gold to name a few for cosmetic appearance. During the early 80’s Fender would gold plate some of their Alnico rod pole pieces to designate a certain grade of material.