Best Karat gold to hold engraving?

[adele_h]

Hi all,
My fiancé is having his ring engraved, and is wondering which alloy would be better to hold the engraving?

He is having a quote engraved in Elvish (LOTR!), done by the team who made the rings for the LOTR and Hobbit films.. it will be hard to replicate at home if the engraving rubs down!

The website offers 9kt, 14kt, 18kt and 22kt. He’s looking at yellow gold.

I’d appreciate any thoughts!
Adele

 

[chrono]

Most likely 9kt. Personal experience that 22kt is very soft, bendy and it looses patterning very quickly compared to 18kt. The softer the metal is, the faster it will lose any sort of pattern or design.

 

[Mamajemmy]

I have a wedding band that was my grandmother’s with their names and date engraved from the 40’s and it’s still very clear. It’s in 14k yellow gold.

 

[Snowdrop13]

How lovely! I think 14k would be a good compromise.

 

[Ally T]

My relative married in 1965 with an 18ct yellow gold band. It was heavily engraved with flowers. She emigrated to New Zealand & visits were sparse. Long story short, my mum though she'd changed her band for a plain one when she visited about 10 years ago, but it was the same one. The engraving had completely worn away & it was totally smooth.

So i would say 9ct with it being the hardest, 14ct at a push.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Hi all,
My fiancé is having his ring engraved, and is wondering which alloy would be better to hold the engraving?

He is having a quote engraved in Elvish (LOTR!), done by the team who made the rings for the LOTR and Hobbit films.. it will be hard to replicate at home if the engraving rubs down!

The website offers 9kt, 14kt, 18kt and 22kt. He’s looking at yellow gold.

I’d appreciate any thoughts!
Adele

That is so weird
i was looking at Jens Hanson just yesterday and saw he did that engraving
Very cool if the lord of the rings is your thing

i love their golden kiwi pendent

 

[adele_h]

That is so weird
i was looking at Jens Hanson just yesterday and saw he did that engraving
Very cool if the lord of the rings is your thing

i love their golden kiwi pendent

It’s very much his thing (we spent two weeks driving around NZ with guides on how to find the various filming locations!!). I think he’s a little put off by the price, they are really quite expensive - I hope he goes for it though, it would have such meaning to him, and he really doesn’t splurge on himself at all.
Given 9kt seems like an acceptable option, that might be the way he goes in the end to make it more affordable.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

It’s very much his thing (we spent two weeks driving around NZ with guides on how to find the various filming locations!!). I think he’s a little put off by the price, they are really quite expensive - I hope he goes for it though, it would have such meaning to him, and he really doesn’t splurge on himself at all.
Given 9kt seems like an acceptable option, that might be the way he goes in the end to make it more affordable.

Things like jewlery are always more exspensive here
I thought the prices were about normal
I see the kind of $$$ deals people get here on PS and it's like another planet !

But the NZ dollar is weak aganist the greenback and just about everything else so that will work in your favour

 

[adele_h]

Things like jewlery are always more exspensive here
I thought the prices were about normal
I see the kind of $$$ deals people get here on PS and it's like another planet !

But the NZ dollar is weak aganist the greenback and just about everything else so that will work in your favour

For some reason they are priced in USD! Very strange.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

For some reason they are priced in USD! Very strange.

Quite often here i end up in the overseas online shop on different NZ internet retailers
and I'll get this message that says like.
We notice you are in NZ, can we direct you to the NZ site ?

the US $ to me seems quite stable
i would be too scared financially to every buy in UK pounds
I never even shop UK amazon