Tag: Repair

Every Trinket File guide tagged repair: resizing, restoration and what a jewellery workshop can realistically do for a piece.

A metal strip with one end polished bright next to the dull, tarnished section

Tarnish, Plating Wear and What Can Be Restored

A dulled piece of jewellery is usually called tarnished and treated with a polishing cloth. Sometimes that is right. Sometimes the dullness is not a film on the metal but metal that is no longer there

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A silversmith at a workshop bench with hammers and stakes behind him

Resizing and Repairing Jewellery: What a Workshop Can Do

Most jewellery can be repaired and much of it can be resized. The useful question is not whether something is possible in principle but whether it is sensible for this piece, which depends almost enti

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A gold chain with its open clasp photographed in close up

Chains, Clasps and How Fastenings Fail

A necklace that disappears is usually assumed to have been stolen or to have broken in some dramatic way. The common ending is quieter than that. A chain is found tucked inside a collar with every lin

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