Archive for the ‘Jewelry Repairs’ Category
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Jewelry Repairs – Ring Sizing
Jewelry Repairs – Ring Sizing. Sizing a ring is a fundamental jewelry repair. We are here to help with any ring sizing, bigger or smaller, simple silver band or intricate platinum and diamond engagement ring. You need to trust your jeweler with your …
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Jewelry Repair – Ring Sizing
There are many reasons why a person might want a ring sized. For an experienced jeweler, 99% of ring sizings pose no problems. However, there are a number of things to consider when choosing a jeweler to resize rings.
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Jewelry Repair – Prong Re-tipping
A common jewelry repair is re-tipping the prongs that hold stones in their mountings. Re-tipping is most commonly needed on gold rings, as they experience the most wear and tear. It is important for you as a jewelry owner to keep an eye on your pieces, and make sure the settings are healthy.
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Jewelry Repair – Sizing Beads
One of the most common jewelry repairs we encounter is a ring that spins on the finger. For any number of reasons a persons knuckle can be bigger than the base of their finger. When this is the case a ring must be sized to fit over the knuckle, meaning it will be too big when at the base of the finger and spin. There are a number of solutions for this. One is an adjustable shank.
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Complete Platinum Ring Rebuild and Fingermate Installation
Most jewelry repairs are simple soldering jobs or ring sizings. This one was much more difficult as far as repairs go, and required an almost total Custom ring fabrication. The ring started out as an 18k and platinum diamond engagement ring and the customer wanted it changed to all platinum with a Fingermate adjustable shank.
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Custom Jewelry Store on Yelp
Please take the time to visit our Yelp listing and write us a review. Whether you are a new Custom jewelry customer or have had jewelry repairs done by us, we would like to encourage your feedback.
Please visit our page HERE
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Find our Jewelry Store on Google
In today’s world, Google is a business’ best friend and that is definitely the case for us, here at Custom. We need our customers to help get the word out about our jewelry repair services and Custom jewelry making abilities (or anything else you love about our little jewelry shop)!
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White Gold vs. Platinum. Which is Better for you? Part One.
It depends, and there are several factors that should go into making your decision. A description of the properties of each metal will help you decide which is better for you.
Platinum is what is regarded as a “dead” metal, meaning, when you move it, bend it, or mechanically manipulate it, it stays where you put it for the life of the object.
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What type of Jewelry Repair are we Looking For?
All of them! It’s true, there isn’t anything we will not at least try to fix. As long as the piece is made of precious metal, we are willing to take a look. However, if we had to choose a specific type of jewelry repair, it would be the most complicated and intricate pieces.
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Trust the Skill and Experience of the Jeweler Doing Your Jewelry Repairs
The manufacturer of this ring didn’t bother to make clean out holes, or clean the ring before setting the center stone. During this simple ring sizing the job turned into a full blown jewelry repair. The dirt behind the stone burned when I applied heat to do the sizing.