Flow Jewelry Studio

Ever wondered what’s happening to your jewelry inside the plating bath?

Different solutions react differently during plating. In our rhodium plating process, you’ll notice bubbles continuously appearing across the surface, while the silver plating bath is rather dark and makes the piece hard to see, giving it a visually calmer appearance in comparison.

Electroplating baths contain gold, silver, rhodium, or whatever material they are set up to plate. Using electrical current, that material is deposited onto the surface of the piece placed in the bath. By controlling voltage and time, we can control how thick the deposit becomes on a piece of jewelry, more time means more gold and, of course, higher cost!!

Looking for a specific plating color for your piece? Let’s see if we can create it.

With a different energy from the hectic, noisy bench of our silver and gold smiths, our master wax carvers bench feels calmer and meditative, even though the work is every bit as demanding.

It starts with small, thin controlled strokes sketching out the over all design and then moves into deeper cuts and carving to create clear dimension and depth. At the end, a touch of heat smooths the surface and brings out a subtle shine. Even a heavily detailed pendant like this is created through that steady - quiet rhythm that defines hand wax carving.

Turn the sound on and you’ll get the vibe!