Diamond Ring Maintenance | Jewellery Repair | Goldsmith's Workshop Secrets
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2023
- This week we are restoring an antique diamond ring!
We talk about how we approach this kind of work, and why! We rebuild the claws, replace the shank and replace the beads on the inside of the band.
It's an honour to work with what is essentially a piece of history. There diamond, the gold, the shank - all tells its own story. I was really happy with how this turned out AND this has got to be one of the whitest stones I've ever worked with. #respect
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Gosh your format is good! No mucking around just the tips and facts! Thank you 👏👌
Thank you for that. The channel is all about sharing and giving back. Thanks for watching and engaging 🙏🏻
"Every Sunday guys",
It really does require some patience, as a viewer but good things take time..
I'm loving the content.
Thanks for saying this. We love making it so it’s a pleasure to get feedback.
The play of light in that stone. Around the 9m20s mark in the video there's this beautiful flash of red into the camera. Thanks for another awesome vid.
You are welcome Charl - and yes, these old cut diamonds have the best reflections. Such a cool stone. It was a beauty.
Jacob..thank you for all ...wishing you health and love..
And you Nicolas 🙏🏻🙏🏻
I'm so glad that you did'nt butt join the wire ends together. Your attention to detail and craftmanship is second to none! Take care and have a fantastic week.
Such kind words 🙏🏻🙏🏻 you have a great week too
Just in case anyone cares; we call those little beads inside the shank “pips”. What an awesome job of rebuilding the ring. Very time consuming and meticulous work. But that’s how good goldsmiths work. I like the idea of cutting a “v” grove into the old claw and the reverse on the new claws to add surface area. 👍
Hey jaco I’ve just started getting into reclaws I’m 2 years into my apprenticeship your channel is really helping me so thank you 🙏
Absolute pleasure 👊🏻
Would be good that you make a video showing all your setup, where you work and all the tools , really good video!!
Thanks Pep, that’s a great idea - will do
That’s how I rebuilt prongs for years. Currently I cut the wires in a similar way but I tack the wires into place with a laser before soldering.
Absolutely John. The laser is such a lifesaver for setup. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Do you have any recommendations for a beginners’ setting scope? Did you go straight for the Leica or was there an in-between scope you had before? Thanks Jacob!
Hi Leo, this was my first scope so I can’t compare it to the other ones out there. But I’ve got no complaints at all. It’s a great addition to my workshop which I could never live without again. I use it for set work and engraving so it’s constantly being used. If you could stretch it, I’d recommend it all day long 👍🏻
i always say I think that repairing jewelry is the most difficult skill to master as a goldsmith....I personally don't take repairs for any jewelry that didn't come out of my workshop (unless a family member begs me lol!)
Question:This video got me thinking... how do you go about color matching your alloys when doing a repair? It sound like you found this ring to be made in an unusual alloy, so how do you go about that? Especially if a piece is not rhodium plated...
Yes indeed. I find repair work quite refreshing between jobs and managed to become very selective over the years. I manufacture mostly but also set stones and engrave. So the workshop always has something interesting to keep my mind occupied. As for the matching - that’s tricky. I try and use the highest grade of bench mixes when doing my work. - I suspect this was a platinum mix 18ct white gold. The colour was very close so it didn’t look out of place. Great question 👌🏻
@@jacothejeweller Thanks for your reply! I have only just started to take on my first gold commissions after years of only silver, but white gold seems to be like the trickiest of all! So many different alloys and really different colors depending on the alloy!
I would personally be really interested in learning how to mix white gold from scratch if you might ever get a chance to do a video about that! Here in Italy there is a system that isn't used in most of Europe where you buy "lega", which is a pre-mixed, gold-free alloy that you combine with pure gold to get your desired karat...you can buy it for red gold or white gold, and then mix in 25% alloy to 75% gold to get 18K for example. However, I am really unsatisfied with the color that it offers, but this is all I have available to me locally. It is a very champagne color, and I am not keen on using rhodium plating. I would love to learn how to alloy in house a nickle free platinum white gold that gives that beautiful grey color.
@@zoedayan3333 very interesting and good luck with moving to gold. Could you send me a link to your suppliers? I’d love to see how Italy handles their trade supply 🙏🏻
way too much time was put into the v-groove prongs vs flat wire prongs imo but i def agree with majority of the vid and especially the shank replacement, im astonished that some idiots would jus keep sizing it up/down all around 7 times lol. but yeah new shank/prongs and polish up the whole thing from the inside out while the stones are out and this is a perfect repair vid i'll gladly recommend ppl watch to get an idea of how bad some of these ring restorations can get.
Thanks for that 🙏🏻 and thanks for having a look.