Experience Watchmaking & Jewelry Repair
Esslinger Staff
Tips For Soldering
Soldering Smart: A few tips to help you ensure your repair work is of the highest quality. Always use a heat source that suites the application. ... Read More...
Metal Melting Point Chart
The specific gravity of a metal or alloy is merely the weight in grams of one cubic centimeter. When it is more convenient to work in troy weights, the number o... Read More...
Fire Scale and Fire Coating
Soldering and Fire Scale
When copper bearing alloys like pink, yellow, and green gold, as well as sterling silver, are heated in the presence of oxygen, ... Read More...
Choosing Your Solder
When you are repairing jewelry and soldering, you must always use the type of solder and flux that each unique piece of jewelry calls for. Since each pi... Read More...
How to Size a Ring by Stretching
When a ring only needs to be sized up by a small amount, there are a few ways that you can size the ring by stretching. Stretching can be done with traditional ... Read More...
How to Size a Ring by Compression
When a ring only needs to be sized down by a small amount, you can easily size the ring by compression. This is the perfect way to size a plain ring tha... Read More...
How to Remove a Half-Size from a Ring
Just as people need their rings made larger to accommodate for changes in their hands like arthritis or weight gain, people also will need their rings made smal... Read More...
How to Install Sizing Beads
Arthritis can make it difficult to ensure that your ring fits because the ring has too be large enough to be able to slide over the knuckle, but then it’s often... Read More...
How to Hammer a Ring Up in Size
Not all rings can be hammered up in size, and it’s never a good idea to hammer a ring up a large amount as hammering is a type of stretching and it will... Read More...
How to Add One Size to a Ring
When it is impossible to stretch a ring to make it the correct size, you must cut the shank and add metal to the ring. That is the method focused on in this art... Read More...
Common Ring Sizing Terms and Tips
Butt Joints:
A butt joint is probably one of the simplest sizing methods for joining sizing stock and the shank of a ring. A butt joint is when both the shank ... Read More...
Methods for Emergency Ring Removal
Your ring should never be so small, or tight, that you can’t remove it yourself. But sometimes, due to events that are out of your control, it becomes impossibl... Read More...
How to Tighten Prongs on Diamond Rings
Prongs, though a common setting method, can create many problems if not done correctly. Setting a stone in prongs requires the proper equipment, and resetting a... Read More...
How to Tighten a Loose Bezel Setting
One of the most common methods for finishing a bezel setting can also result in problems down the road. Using a polished steel burnisher does not allow you to t... Read More...
