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most jewelry stores will clean rings for free as a way of getting you in the door. Takes only a couple minutes
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Seluin posted:It’s my first time at Tucson! Omg, I thought it would be just a couple of locations. Not 30+ hotels scattered across the area :O What are you after? In terms of well'rounded shows if you dont know what you're after, 22nd street is the best pick - great deals across the spectrum AND dinosaurs.
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subpar anachronism posted:I've picked up some vintage swarovski UG glass facets I'd like to use in jewelry. I've done research on settings, but is there a tool to help size smaller round gems? I have a bunch of teeny rounds but my eyes just aren't good enough when it gets down to points. Maybe some kind of... plate with holes? I don't know. usually calipers
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Nice job
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Seluin posted:
looks like a heart
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A lot of instability in African gem sites (Ethiopia's civil war for instance), supply chain issues, covid travel issues. The Tucson gem show has had very few international dealers the last couple years and that's the major way new materials get to market. On the synthetics side most of the big ones have realized that they are more profitable just cutting their own synthetic gems in house, and many of the others have gone out of business.
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people talk about the experience of going to vegas, where you walk down the street and your money just evaporates tucson is much the same but you end up with pockets full of rocks
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The reason faceted amethyst is so cheap is because there is so much cheap facetable rough flooding the market. Originally it was one of the most valuable 'precious' gems, but it became a cheap 'semiprecious' when large amounts of great Brazilian amethyst were found, and current synthetic production has helped keep the price down.
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How hot does that silver solder get, anyway?
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The Alexandrovich lab was the group that invent the first viable growth technique for of large quartz crystals. Once they had the lab set up (under A.A. Sternberg, probably the greatest expert on crystals on the planet, who also literally slept on a cot next to the giant crystal-growing autoclaves ), they managed to go from building their first machines in 1955 to producing 3 kilogram quartz crystals in 1956. Everyone working there was passionate, so they were incredibly excited when they finally opened up the autoclave and saw the huge crystals. The main assistant (L Tsinober) grabbed one of them out of the autoclave, still hot, and impatiently rushed to the sink to wash it off to get a better look. When the cold water hit, it immediately cracked into a million pieces. The other workers were - to put it mildly, quite unhappy about that, except Sternberg, who just said 'Don't worry. Soon we'll have a lot more of them.'
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Uranium glass is worth a bit to collectors (as is victoria stone), but other glasses aren't worth much of anything without some cool historical origin story. Sorry but if it's glass your gramps got scammed.
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Nae posted:I hit a big jewelry-making milestone today: I made my first three-stone ring! Like all creative projects I make, I’m struggling to ignore the (many) flaws, but I feel like it’s a really good first attempt. Next go-around, I want to make the claw prongs smaller and set the whole thing lower, but it’ll obviously depend on what size stones I use. This guy has a 7.4 YAG middle (cut by TenaciousFaceting on etsy), and the sides are 5mm LuAG rounds I got from our very own Scarodactyl. Thank you, Scarodactyl! congrats! It looks great 
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May 24, 2023 22:29
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Crosspost for maximum visiblity.
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Looks pretty cool, I'd say
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Soul Dentist posted:Hello thread! I've been working as a production bench jeweler for about a year now, working with platinum and gold castings and fabrication to make stuff like this ring or this tennis bracelet or these pendants that are the bane of my existence What's the coolest project you've worked on so far? And on the opposite end of the scale, what kind of work is the biggest pain in the rear end at your job?
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Like any retail good you shouldn't expect to be able to sell for retail price unless that's your full time job. Opals are so variable depending on play of color and locale it is impossible to say if the appraisal is accurate from this amount of info.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Whoa, big price diff between around 500 and around 8 grand. IIRC K9 is lead glass, so you might want to avoid grinding it and spreading the powder around. Generally quartz can be chippy and it has fairly mediocre optical properties
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Yea the 9 can refer to the lead content. If I cut that it's gonna be while wearing a respirator. should wear a respirator with everything TBH, even inert stuff like quartz could give you silicosis (though practically speaking that's usually only an issue with dry cutting those big quartz countertops).
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Soul Dentist posted:No ethical production under capitalism, in my case. Just buy gems manufactured in the USSR 
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