[Jewelry making - Article 01117] - Re: [Orchid] Colour change in the ultrasonic

[Helen Hill]

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>     So Helen, you're a jeweler, right? 

    Well, I'm loathe to call myself such as I've only been making
    jewellery (self taught with the great help of Orchid) since July this
    year so it would seem a little pretentious to call myself a jeweler! 

>     So why wouldn't you just step over to the polishing machine and see
>     what happens? 

    Well Daniel, I'll let you into a secret. I have had such a sense of
    "I'll try it and see what happens" once before with my engagement
    ring. I very foolishly tried to resize it by stretching it - not
    knowing at the time that you can only do that on band rings and that
    you have to cut and add a piece to make a stone set ring bigger. So
    of course all I did was split the shank at the point it had been
    previously soldered. I also polished it a little too heavily and the
    white gold prongs failed a few months later which led to my diamond
    falling out! All this was before I was confident enough to fix such
    mishaps and so an Orchid friend of mine in America fixed it for me
    and soldered a new platinum head and set the diamond again so now it
    looks better than it did when new. 

    To be honest, as soon as I asked the question I thought it was a
    stupid one, as I since figured that it'll probably return to its
    normal yellow colour after a little wear anyway! 

    But thanks for the words of encouragement, and yes I do love to
    experiment also and have learned most of what I know from such
    experiments. Incidentally, I do now attempt such repairs and have
    successfully resized a few stone set rings myself, but when it comes
    to my engagement ring, I am a little nervous to jump in head first as
    it's obviously very dear to me. 

Helen
UK
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