Hey everyone thanks for your patience and further interest in jewelry refurbishing or restoration. I'm going to bring insight to polishing without the polisher only using felt wheels and buff wheels along with the different grits of bristle brushes to obtain the same if not higher detailed finish to your jewelry. In my opinion every piece goes through a polishing or detailing at the bench through and without magnification. I use zam compound and safety masks and eye protection. Also I keep a fan blowing because we just need air blowing to keep lint flying into your face. If anyone wants further steps I'll make more classes for this topic.

These rings tend to bend easily and don't take much pressure to dent them. This one lost two stones on its way down 2 sizes. Been extremely busy and behind since Valentine's so I might get on here as much as I want to. Welcome two new members.

This is a very common task that I should charge to teach but I believe in giving back to the community so I'll be working on extra operation classes like this head and set and mounting fabrication from seat to prong by prong. Here the original setting was composed of only two prongs, the customer lost the cz stone about .40ct, so I decided to do 3 prongs with a .50ct cz. Unfortunately I wasn't able to catch the final result, but the customer loves it. At a jewelry store where they sell loose stones then they offer this service to set their stone in your mounting and that's where you come in and make that happen either by ordering a new head or mounting or my personal favorite is to add new prongs around the same setting.

A great example today with the sides of the clasps giving out to the point of cracking and breakage. Did it in under 20 minutes this is my return customer so I give them a return customer price at 20 dollars. They don't have to buy a new clasp if they keep seeing me. You can also make these yourself if you look up all the how to videos. I always told my brother if you can make it from scratch then you can keep rebuilding it.

I'm going to try the email all option and share this technique, welcome 2 new users btw. This is a great way for heat sensitive stones and it takes less time than the usual using a pick and waiting to get enough heat around your joint. Notice that it soldered before the wet paper started sizzling. Also my torch was pointing upwards so be careful of what behind your ring. I had already inserted a piece of chip solder in the joint as well and fluxed. Another way to do this is submerging the heat sensitive stone in water within a cap full while you solder. The. There's the heat paste which is a mess but works. You don't want to use too much water where the steam is interfering with your flame or your paste got near your joint flame path.