February 9, 2025

Sandobap

Everyday Fashion

Beyond repair?

To start with of all, wow! The place has summer time long gone? How can it perhaps be September currently???

This is only heading to be a shorter website, but I just wanted to share a minimal fix career that I have been doing the job on now. The shopper to begin with sent me an electronic mail a few months back, as she’d been explained to by a large avenue jeweller that her sentimental gold dress ring, wasn’t in a position to be resized. Que that little evil bit in my mind that just would like to confirm them erroneous and display that it IS doable, and voila! A person resized garnet and pearl costume ring. Indeed, it IS a fragile ring, so she’s not heading to be able to wear it every single working day, but at minimum it now CAN be worn, rather than currently being destined to sit in a box endlessly!

The ring in question - so beautiful!

The ring in dilemma – so beautiful!

It is 9ct gold, set with garnets and pearls and is extremely fragile, but definitely not over and above restore. It’s a “dress ring” and will hardly ever have been intended to be worn all of the time.

Size L1/2 and needs to be a size N

Dimensions L1/2 and requires to be a sizing N

The ring shank has some fragile engraving all all-around it, and mainly because it is a extremely smaller ring, the hallmark took up most of the readily available room, so I had to choose exactly where to make the reduce extremely carefully.

Adding the new gold

Incorporating the new gold

It’s all thanks to my Dado laser welder below. It intended that I could add in a new area of gold and “weld” it in put without having risking heating (and ruining!) the pearls.

Cleaning up

Cleaning up

As soon as the new piece of gold was welded, it was just a case of really thoroughly cleansing up the joins.

Not forgetting the inside.

Not forgetting the within.

The newer gold alloy was a a bit distinctive colour, but it’ll all blend in with a polish.

Ready to wear!

All set to don!

Of course, you can see the be a part of if you search closely, but from time to time it’s not all about completely hiding the new portion. This ring was about preservation and producing it wearable all over again.

Polished and ready for many more years!

Polished and all set for quite a few a lot more many years!

A “very” very careful polish so as not to injury those people sensitive pearls, or to take out to considerably of the character. In my viewpoint, it’s suitable for an antique to glance as these kinds of!

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