[Jewelry making - Article 00088] - Re: [Orchid] Soldering with turq stones??

[Katherine Palochak]

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    You have to always remove turquoise from the settings before doing
    repairs--all of it. If natural, it will crack under the intense heat
    or turn black. If stabilized, the resins, oil or wax will also react
    with the heat. Sometimes you can get the stones out by using a very
    small watchmaker type of screwdriver, which has a small, flat, thin
    blade that you can get between the edge of the bezel and the stone.
    Lever the blade to gently raise the bezel a little at a time, going
    repeatedly around the circumference. However, be prepared to make new
    settings. 

    An old trick that was used many times to cover a crack, rather than
    repair it, is to use small wire or a small bezel strip across the
    crack. If a wire is used, the ends are flattened so they'll slip
    under the edges of the bezel. Either with the wire or the strip, the
    bezel is pried up a little to insert the new metal, then burnished
    down over it again. Sometimes, the crack is ground out a little to
    make it straighter, and the wire is inserted and tapped down into the
    crack like an inlay. The crack then becomes a new 
    design element, hidden by the addition of the metal.

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