Two Tone Finishes
There're serval prossces of two tone finishes for lapel pins or coins.
Gold with silver
It depends on the design for us to choice make the silver or gold first. Gold first if the gold area is very small.
Gold with copper
Gold first, then protect the gold by paint and then to plate copper.
Siver with black nickel
Silver first, black nickel finially.
Antique gold with antique silver
It'll be easy if you're using brass base metal, antique silver don't need a very high temperature during plating.
Antique gold with antique copper
Copper first then gold and making antique together.
Antique gold with shiny silver
It's a little hard process if one is antique and another is shiny.
The best way is to make shiny metal firs, but sometimes if the antique is very small, antique first is also good choice.
Antique bronze with shiny silver
It's real a very intersting thing to make a quality two tone item.
The key of all these process are paint covering, it's the key process during making two tone finishes.
A good two tones lapel pins or coins need you pay more attation on all process. It's a very important.