Talk:Gold filled jewelry

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This article originally had "gold-plated", with a hyphen. When I went to add the wiki link to the gold plated article I found it was "gold plated", without a hyphen. I think the no-hyphen spelling is correct but I'm far from an expert on this so I didn't mark the page as a minor edit and am hoping that wiser people than I can make the final call. Should it need a hyphen then there should probably be a complete search through the wikipedia to make all spellings consistent. Perhaps even if no-hyphen is agreed correct then a search for consistency should be done? Once again I'll leave the decision (and, the work, of course :-) to others.

Neilbaby1 22:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Ahh - I now see that there is another problem. The gold plated article says that mechanical bonding of gold is called gilding while this page clearly defines gold filling as a chemical bond of gold. Once again, someone who knows more on this subject than I should either update one or both of the articles so that they are consistent. I suspect both gold filling and gilding are correct terms and the pages need to say that there "gold filling or gilding" or something like that. Once again, I'm not an expert, just a nitpicker.

Neilbaby1 22:27, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Gold Filled (at least in the old days) means that a fairly thick layer of gold would be fused to both sides of a piece of metal (usually a brass composition) and then the piece would be worked into finished form. How ever the process the result is that high quality gold filled jewelry has a heavy outer layer that will stand quite a bit of wear. It will last much longer than typical gold plating. Saxophobia 00:38, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

re: hyphens. My understanding is that when the words precede a noun (This is a gold-filled ring.), they get a hyphen. And when they stand alone (This ring is gold filled.), there is no hyphen. I have seen examples where this does prevent confusion.

I removed this: "Some items understandably wear quickly because they are only coated with a few micrometres of gold while other more expensive pieces containing more gold can last years with light wear. " because "micrometres" doesn't sound quite right for GF. It sounds correct for gold plate which is 0.001 to 0.000001" thick. (Heavy gold electroplate is a bit thicker than that.)

I didn't clarify the chemical bond sentence, because I don't fully understand it. I know that heat and pressure are used to do the bonding, and the layers slighlty combine, into -- here's where I get confused -- what I believe becomes a chemical bond. (i.e., it's not just a slayer slapped on -- it can't peel off.)

Beadalicious 06:00, 17 May 2007 (UTC)