Repairs
How Much Does it Cost to Rhodium Plate my Ring?
Hopefully you were informed when you bought that gorgeous white gold ring that it won’t always look as white or as bright as the day you bought it. Your shiny white, brand new ring, is looking that sharp, because its final step of creation was to rhodium plate it. In my blog post, Rhodium Plating;…
How Laser Ring Welding Fixes Fragile and Unfixable Rings
Jewelers get challenged all the time, whether it’s sizing a complicated ring design that wants to resist being worked on, or a ring with a vulnerable gemstone. How your jeweler responds to this challenge can effect your jewelry collection. Do you have a ring that is unfixable? Is it unfixable because one or two…
Top Three Reasons Your Jewelry Broke – The Jewelry Hall of Shame
My jeweler friend Casey Gallant, of Stephen Gallant Jewelers wrote this up and is letting me share. This is as good an excuse as any to share pictures of messed up jewelry. Which jewelers love to do. I’m calling this post the jewelry hall of shame because I’m proud of all these great broken…
Fixing Bent Rings and Cracked Rings
Five Causes of Bent Rings 1. Your ring shank is too thin. 2. Your ring is too large for your finger. 3. Your ring was worn while lifting heavy objects or tightly grasping hard objects. Or your ring collided with something harder than the gold. 4. Your ring has weakened at a connection…
Ring Shank Tragedy – Lame Horses and Thin Rings
Tilda’s tragic treasure trouble started on a fun Caribbean trip. Tilda bought a “gorgeous” ring on her trip to Barbados. Within a month the shank, (the bottom part of the ring below the main design,) was badly bent. Tilda called me, afraid to wear it. Her question was, “How is this possible? This ring is…
Before and After Pictures of Jewelry Redesign and Repair
“More before and after pictures please.” I’ve heard it often. I’ve gathered favorite projects and included projects from my jeweler friends as well to inspire you to pull out something you’re not wearing and change it up. Whether it’s jewelry redesign or repair, nothing is more satisfying than changes for the good. Before and…