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Old 11-13-2010, 06:53 AM
mehoose mehoose is offline
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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Default Re: Looking for help from Jewelers. Repair gone bad!!

Turtle,
I'm glad this was sorted openly and with a good result in the end.
You are right, it would have been noticed.
Once this has happened with Turquoise, one good knock and it would have crumbled. You might have been feeling embarrassed initially but you certainly saved yourself a worse moment.
1. Don't do repairs unless it's your own work. (WAY too many stones glued in, even today)
if you forget 1.
2. Remove all stones. Sometimes the heat shield might not be sufficient. OR.
You might use Borax or flux to coat the silver before heating trying to reduce firescale, some stones can't handle this touching them when heated.
3. You will forget to breathe so go back to 1.
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