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As you know silver will tarnish and needs to be cleaned. The same thing happens to white gold. So what jewellers do world wide is to plate the white gold with Rhodium, a very expensive white metal - which was recently 5000 times the price of gold!  You cannot buy an 18 carat engagement ring anywhere in the world that hasn't been Rhodium plated - it's considered essential.

For fifteen dollars Australian extra I offer a Rhodium plating service which will make the pendant and chain look much nicer and will prevent the usual silver tarnish.

If you went into a jewellery shop and asked to get any item Rhodium plated they would charge you around as much as fifty dollars.

Why I offer it for a mere fifteen dollars which is less than a wholesale price? Well, when I finish these pendants I spend a great deal of time polishing them with machinery with special polishing compounds and then finish with hand polishing.  It is a painstaking process and I aim to get a bright gleaming polish even between the holes in the letters.  It is a shame to have this tarnish as you could never again get that polish on the pendant like I have originally done. The Rhodium plating means that my original polish will remain for a very long time.

I know it might seem a bit of a stretch when you are buying a gift for someone else but it is the greatest thing you could do for this piece of jewellery.  I ofer diamonds, special fonts and other things but I sugget that Rhodium plating comes before any of these.

Cheers,

Gary Hocking