{"id":180,"date":"2008-02-28T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheldodge.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/metal-series-gold-filled\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T12:02:08","slug":"metal-series-gold-filled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/2008\/02\/28\/metal-series-gold-filled\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Series: Gold-filled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lavajewelry.etsy.com\"><img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gold-filled seems to be one of the metals that most people know little about. It is gaining in popularity with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitco.com\/charts\/livegold.html\">ever-increasing price of metal<\/a>, so I would like to shed a little light on this useful and attractive metal.<\/p>\n<p>Gold-filled is different from gold-plated, both in the way it is produced, and in its gold content. Gold-filled is made by heat bonding\/fusing a layer of gold to a base metal (such as brass). Gold-plating, on the other hand, is made by electroplating a very thin layer of gold ions onto a base metal. The layer of gold in gold-filled metal is 50 to 10000 times thicker than the layer of gold on plated metals.<\/p>\n<p>Gold-filled metal has its own special notation. A common gold-filled is called 12\/20. This indicates that the metal is 1\/20 12kt gold by weight. (I&#8217;ll save the discussion of gold karats for another time.)<\/p>\n<p>The primary advantage of using gold-filled instead of solid gold is cost. Gold-filled usually only costs a bit more than sterling silver. The advantage of using gold-filled over gold-plated is that gold plating tends to wear off quickly. Gold-plated metals are not regulated in the United States, and they have no minimum required gold content, so the quality of gold-plated metals varies widely. Gold-filled is an affordable, quality, alternative to using solid gold.<\/p>\n<p>Although I don&#8217;t have any gold-filled pieces <a href=\"http:\/\/lavajewelry.etsy.com\">currently listed in my shop<\/a>, I do have some available for customers who prefer it.<\/p>\n<p>A few links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitco.com\/charts\/livegold.html\">Increasing gold prices<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gold_filled_jewelry\">Gold-filled on Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold-filled seems to be one of the metals that most people know little about. It is gaining in popularity with the ever-increasing price of metal, so I would like to shed a little light on this useful and attractive metal. Gold-filled is different from gold-plated, both in the way it is produced, and in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}