I’ve got a small pen plater, and some non-cyanide-based gold plating
solution. I tried the thing out once on some sterling items when I
first got it, and didn’t get good results, so haven’t used it since.
I’d like to try it again. It came with minimal instructions about
preparing the items to be plated, other than saying they “need to be
clean”.
I’d like to gold-plate just a few small details on a sterling
pendant to highlight them. How should I prepare the pendant to make
sure it’s clean enough? And how can I make sure that the plating
solution doesn’t run from the pen tip across the pendant’s surface,
but only covers the areas I want plated?
–Kathy Johnson
Feathered Gems Pet Motif Jewelry
http://www.featheredgems.com