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button smash sterling silver is very
popular in the jewelry marketplace and
for the right reasons it's one of the
brightest shiniest
alloys and metals you'll be able to find
it's beautiful I love silver now there's
two things there's the fine or pure
silver that is pure and then there's
sterling silver and it's the same
concept as gold you have the 24 karat
gold and then you have the lower purity
which are made to make for jewelry so
fine silver is just too soft for
practical everyday use on jewelry so
they add some copper in to make it
ninety two point five percent pure fine
silver and then the rest is the copper
or added alloys or metals to just make
it harder and more durable
now silver does have some value it's a
good thing to own it looks great it's
easier for you guys to buy it it's more
affordable you can buy more chains
bracelets rings whatever and have
quantity of it for the manufacturers
it's easier to make silver you can make
far more designs and put more stuff out
in the marketplace probably sell more I
know when I first started my business I
was very tempted to do silver because I
had so many different designs I wanted
to make happen and with gold at the time
was so expensive I ended up only making
like one or two gold pieces and I could
have made you know 10 to 20 different
silver pieces but I wanted to stick with
gold for that one reason and kind of the
black eye with silver and we all know
what that is is the tarnishing factor
now the tarnishing happens with the
other alloys that are mixed in through
air too many different factors but it's
definitely going to tarnish you know
gold over time can oxidize can tarnish a
little bit but it's more not likely to
happen with silver pieces sterling
silver eventually your pieces will
punish and I get you can go to Walmart
and
it polish it make it look shiny and
beautiful like it should I just don't
want to worry about it and I don't want
to sell to a customer a sterling silver
piece and one year then being like hey
you know it's tarnishing I wish it
looked like it did when I bought it from
you originally I don't want to go
through all that I like something that's
going to last that's why I like gold but
with sterling silver you're definitely
going to get that manufacturers are
trying to figure out how to stop or
delay that tarnishing on sterling silver
a way to do that is to rhodium the peace
now rhodium is very expensive but it
will definitely help it it's a coat but
that coat will eventually the plating
will wear off and you'll have the
sterling silver underneath and it is
very expensive when you're buying
sterling silver it's kind of you know
the less expensive routes you're not
going to want to pay for white rhodium
might as well just save up and go with
white gold with rhodium plating finish
on it they can add other alloys to it
again a little bit more expensive so
most of the time when you're shopping
for sterling silver it's just sterling
silver unless it's otherwise indicated
and manufacturers they just want to go
kind of the cheaper route when selling
sterling silver they don't care what it
does to you a year from now but if they
could figure a cheap way to stop that
tarnishing it would be a gold mine
because sterling silver and silver is is
gorgeous it shines it's bright when you
look at I get people saying oh I want a
yellow gold piece because I don't want
people think if I buy a white gold it's
it's silver to me the difference is
night and day
sterling silver is bright it's like it's
like bleach it's just like bone right in
your face when someone has like really
white teeth you know that is sterling
silver and then natural is just like
natural is white gold it's softer but
you could definitely tell the difference
with sterling silver because the metal
is so bright I'll make another video
comparing white gold to sterling silver
so we can get more in depth about that
topic I just want to make a basic video
on sterling silver leave a comment below
if I missed anything what your opinion
is on sterling silver again I like
silver I really do I have silver bars I
have silver coins I enjoy it but as far
as jewelry and it tarnished
I just I'm not a big fan of it so that's
it for this video and we will see you on
our next jewelry video