When Gold & Silver Are Just Not Your Style Alternative metals are used in the manufacturing of all types of jewelry including chains, bracelets, pendants, earrings, and even watches. The term alternative is referencing an alternative to the more traditional metals found in most fine jewelry assortments – platinum, gold, …
Our most common jewlery repairs At My Jewelry Repair, we specialize in essential jewelry repairs. Promptly sending in jewelry for repair ensures its longevity and beauty. Our common services include ring sizing, prong repair, necklace chains, clasps, and careful pearl restringing. Each task is executed with great precision and care, …
Before & After Series A Pearl Ring Stone Replacement & Repair On this edition of the Before & After Series, we have a Gold Plated Pearl Ring without a pearl! Additionally, when we received this ring to be serviced, most of the gold plating was worn off on this ring. …
The Most Affordable of the Precious Metals Pure silver is a very soft metal with a millesimal fineness of 99.9%, therefore it is usually alloyed with other metals. Sterling silver is the most common silver alloy used in jewelry manufacturing, which is 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% other metals, usually …
Before & After Series A Case Replacement for a Relic Watch On this edition of the Before & After series, we have a Relic watch with a badly damaged crystal and case. Just by looking at the before and after photos, you can see how drastic of a difference it …
Before & After Series A Look Back At Some of Our Best Transformations Can you believe it?! It has been 50 before & after highlights since we started the Before & After blog series! And even before that we were posting some of these transformations on our Facebook and Instagram …
Platinum is a Noble Metal Platinum is rare and one of the most valuable precious metals, also known as one of the noble metals. It was deemed “the only metal fit for kings” by King Louis XVI of France. It is favored by jewelers for three key properties: durability, weight, …
Before & After Series A Clasp Replacement for a Gold Chain On this edition of the Before & After Series, we have a 14 karat gold chain with a broken spring ring clasp and a bent connection ring. Instead of replacing the spring ring clasp, the client requested an upgrade …
Before & After Series A Badly Misshapen Sterling Silver Ring On this edition of the Before & After Series, we have a Sterling Silver ring that was badly misshapen and needed to be re-sized up. For this ring restoration repair, we had to: We are proud members of the Our …
The Original As we all know, the color of pure gold is a beautiful yellow color, but karat gold jewelry is available in colors other than yellow, for example white and rose. So, how is white gold or rose gold created? As shared in Part 1 of our metals series, …
