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03/11/2012

Other Tips

If possible, avoid wearing jewelry while participating in contact sports or doing housework, gardening, repairs, etc. The mounting can be damaged, and stones can be chipped, scratched and cracked. If during rough work, you want to wear a ring for sentimental reasons or to avoid losing tower protective gloves. Hopefully, your ring has smooth setting style with no high prongs.

When you go to bed, either take your ring off or turn them towards your palm. While sleeping, you probably unconsciously hit your rings against the sheets.

When you set jewelry near a sink, make sure the drains are plugged or that it's put in a protective container. Otherwise, don't take the jewelry off.

Clean your jewelry near a sink, make sure the drains are plugged or that it's put in a protective container. Otherwise, don't take the jewelry off.

Clean your jewelry on a regular basis. Then you won't have to use risky procedures to clean it later on.

Avoid exposing your jewelry to sudden changes of temperature. Keep jewelry away from steam and hot pots and ovens in the kitchen.

About every six months, have a jewelry professional check your ring for loose stones or wear on the mounting.

03/11/2012

Cleaning Jewelry Mountings

Brushes can scratch gold and platinum too. Therefore, you should avoid using them to clean it. Instead use a soft cloth to rub dirt off the metal. The safest cleaning solution for jewelry is warm with a mild liquid detergent. Never boil jewelry. This can cause the stones to crack or change color.

Jewelers also like to use sudsy ammonia. It's safe to use on gold and platinum, but it can damage stones such as pearls. Avoid cleaning gold with toothpaste, powder cleansers or scouring pads because can wear away the metal.

Since jewelry gold is not pure, a variety of chemical products may discolor or dissolve it. A few of these products and their affect on gold alloys are as follows :

Chlorine-it can pit and dissolve the metal. causing prongs to snap and mountings to break apart. Afterwards. it might appear as if you've been sold defective or fake gold jewelry. Therefore, avoid wearing gold jewelry in swimming pools or hot tubs that have chlorine disinfectants, and never soak it or clean it with bleach.

Lotions and cosmetics-besides leaving a film on the jewelry piece, they may tarnish it, especially if it's made of 10K gold. If possible, put your jewelry on last. after applying make-up and spraying your hair.

Perm solutions-they have a tendency to turn 10K gold and low-karat solder joints dark brown or black.

Some medications-they cause a chemical reaction in certain people. This can make their skin turn black when it comes into contact with a gold alloy.

Polishing compounds-they can blacken your skin if they remain on the gold. Polishing cloths sold in jewelry stores may contain a mild abrasive for shining the metal. When using these cloths be sure to wash or wipe the metal thoroughly afterwards.

03/11/2012

Which of the following scratches most easily?
Glass
Pure gold
Pure platinum
Since pure gold is the softest, it's the easiest to scratch. Glass. which is softer than most gemstones, ranges from 3 to 30 times harder than gold. Platinum is about twice as hard as gold. This means that if you place jewelry in box on other pieces, it's almost sure to get scratched by gemstones or metal. Therefore, when you store jewelry, place each piece in a separate pouch or plastic bag, or wrap them individually in soft material. Padded bags with lots of pockets are also handy for storing jewelry.

05/10/2012

•24K gold is pure gold.

•18K gold contains 18 parts gold and 6 parts of another metal(s), making it 75% gold.

•14K gold contains 14 parts gold and 10 parts of another metal(s), making it 58.3% gold.

•12K gold contains 12 parts gold and 12 parts of another metal(s), making it 50% gold.

•10K gold contains 10 parts gold and 14 parts another metal(s), making it 41.7% gold. 10K gold is the minimum karat designation that can still be called gold in the US.

Even 18K gold, with its 6 parts of another metal, gives jewelers the opportunity to play around with color.

05/10/2012

Will 18K gold change color?

By
Karllen
– July 30, 2010Posted in: Article


The 18K gold won’t change color in itself, there is a plating on the outward of jewelry, due to some behaviors in life, the plating falls off, revealing the original color of the 18k gold. 18K means the kind of jewelry that contains 75% pure gold, with 25% other noble metal.

The color of the metal depends on the respective percentages of 25% other metal. Generally speaking, it takes on soft white yellow color, for the beauty and endurance of the jewelry; we usually anodize plating on the outward of the jewelry. The bright white surface we see is actually the plating.

Some behaviors in our daily life will cause the wear and tear of the plating, such as doing housework, taking a bath, making-up etc, or rubbing with other objects. After falling off of the plating, the metal will reveal its original color, taking on light white yellow color, it is a normal phenomenon. The content of the jewelry should have no problem after the testing of quality inspection centre.

Many customers have no idea about this phenomenon, they mistake for the quality problem of the jewelry. Actually, we don’t need to worry about it, we can take the jewelry for maintenance to relative specialized jewelry agent, and they will be renewed after re-cleaning and re-plating.

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Sterling Silver 925

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Silver Bracelets (925 Sterling Jewelry)