First of all, wow! Where has summer months absent? How can it maybe be September already???
This is only going to be a limited blog site, but I just preferred to share a minimal mend job that I have been functioning on these days. The customer initially despatched me an electronic mail a number of weeks back, as she’d been informed by a large road jeweller that her sentimental gold dress ring, wasn’t equipped to be resized. Que that tiny evil bit in my brain that just wishes to prove them incorrect and present that it IS doable, and voila! Just one resized garnet and pearl costume ring. Certainly, it IS a delicate ring, so she’s not heading to be equipped to don it each individual day, but at minimum it now CAN be worn, instead than currently being destined to sit in a box endlessly!
The ring in query – so gorgeous!
It is 9ct gold, set with garnets and pearls and is incredibly sensitive, but surely not beyond mend. It’s a “dress ring” and will under no circumstances have been intended to be worn all of the time.
Measurement L1/2 and wants to be a dimension N
The ring shank has some fragile engraving all about it, and for the reason that it’s a quite modest ring, the hallmark took up most of the offered space, so I had to pick out wherever to make the lower very diligently.
Introducing the new gold
It’s all many thanks to my Dado laser welder here. It intended that I could incorporate in a new area of gold and “weld” it in position devoid of risking heating (and ruining!) the pearls.
Cleaning up
The moment the new piece of gold was welded, it was just a scenario of extremely carefully cleansing up the joins.
Not forgetting the inside of.
The more recent gold alloy was a a bit various color, but it’ll all blend in with a polish.
Prepared to put on!
Of course, you can see the join if you search closely, but in some cases it’s not all about completely hiding the new component. This ring was about preservation and earning it wearable again.
Polished and all set for numerous additional yrs!
A “very” very careful polish so as not to problems people delicate pearls, or to take away to considerably of the character. In my view, it’s appropriate for an antique to appear as these kinds of!