I have several stories of startups who became and are becoming successful in the jewelry business. This one is about hip hop jewelry in the early 2000's. He was the king in Oklahoma City. Inside of crossroads Mall which is no longer what it used to be. He made 6 figure annual income and my dad was his jeweler. There has always been enough jewelry to go around for the jewelers. One other jeweler my dad helped out also now owns a 7 figure business and he's not an American citizen. In fact he was deported several times and still managed to come back and grow his empire. These and other success stories in the business should prove that there's plenty of money to be made in this business.

La mayoría de mi experiencia fue aprendida dentro la comunidad hispana. Es un orgullo mexicano poder representar este talento que tiene raíces de México. It is an honor to be able to represent this talent and skill as having Mexican roots. Most of my experience was learned within the Mexican community and I'm here to translate a lot of what goes on within the Latin jewelry repair community.

We have been operating a jewelry repair spot inside a grocery store now for 2 years and we do get repairs in every single day now enough to provide with consistent examples of your common everyday repairs. You will see firsthand what it takes for people to keep coming back for quality service.

There's several I've personally tried including magic green powder, stuller's pink solution, Rio grande both clear and pink ones, and others. Unfortunately the best kind so far is ammonia. Another good one I have tried frothing is goof off orange oily stuff. I dipped once in that then in plain water that's in the ultrasonic and everything just flies off like bats out the gates. Again proper ventilation and mask is preferred. Feel free to share your experiences.

This knowledge itself is very valuable as your capable to tell between real and fake, natural and synthetic lab, glass and quartz, silver and white gold, platinum and silver, Gold and brass, etc. I buy jewelry stating it's lab when it's really a natural stone all the time. I'll be teaching you what to look for and how to keep recycling your own gold. Once you can successfully study every kind of flaw there is in a stone then you can be ready to become a certified gemologist by GIA, or other gem institutions. There's many instruments used to identify jewelry but a jewelers loupe and good lighting should be enough.