Your ring should fit snugly but comfortably. It should slide on easily, but you should have to pull a little to get it off. If your ring is uncomfortably tight, you should look into getting the ring made larger. It should also be sized if it slips off with no resistance at all, which means it is too big.
Typically, rings can be increased or decreased up to two sizes. Beyond that, it can put too much stress on the ring. If you can't have your ring resized until a future date, our jeweler may add a ring guard to make it a little more snug. It's a bar that clips across the bottom of your ring, but it should be used for only a short amount of time. Over time, a ring guard can damage the band.
Unfortunately, there are a few restrictions whereby some rings cannot be resized. To be resized, your ring must be made of metal such as silver, gold, or platinum. Non-metal materials (such as tungsten and titanium) cannot be resized, nor can full eternity bands, or rings with tension settings.
With frequent use, chains are exposed to great risk, a lot more than other types of pieces of jewelry that are worn. This makes jewelry chain repair the most recurrent type of repair that jewelry stores encounter. So, what can cause chains to break?
Diamonds and other gemstones sit in settings in rings, necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. These settings are meant to hold the stones in place, but damage to the settings could lead to lost gemstones.
The most common cause of stones falling out of their settings is normal wear and tear, especially for rings since they see a lot of action on hands.
If you notice a stone missing from your jewelry, and if you still have the gemstone, bring it with you so our jeweler can put back into the jewelry. The process will usually involve fixing the broken setting and placing the stone back into the setting.
If you have lost the stone, we have a team of stone selection experts that can source a new stone for your jewelry that will match the other stones in the piece. If you have a loose stone or a gem that fell out of its setting, there are plenty of options for repair and ways to prevent it from happening again in the future.
Your ring should fit snugly but comfortably. It should slide on easily, but you should have to pull a little to get it off. If your ring is uncomfortably tight, you should look into getting the ring made larger. It should also be sized if it slips off with no resistance at all, which means it is too big.
Typically, rings can be increased or decreased up to two sizes. Beyond that, it can put too much stress on the ring. If you can't have your ring resized until a future date, our jeweler may add a ring guard to make it a little more snug. It's a bar that clips across the bottom of your ring, but it should be used for only a short amount of time. Over time, a ring guard can damage the band.
Unfortunately, there are a few restrictions whereby some rings cannot be resized. To be resized, your ring must be made of metal such as silver, gold, or platinum. Non-metal materials (such as tungsten and titanium) cannot be resized, nor can full eternity bands, or rings with tension settings.
We offer cleaning and restringing services for pearls and pearl jewelry. For security and durability it is best to restring pearl necklaces and bead jewelry at least every five years.
Cultured pearls are often strung on silk thread with a knot between each pearl. This keeps the pearls from rubbing against each other and prevents all the pearls from cascading to the floor if the necklace was to break.
Silk thread is susceptible to wear and tear, especially if you wear the necklaces all the time. The fine silk can stretch and weaken, so if you see extra space between the knots that separate the pearls from each other, that could be a sign that the necklace needs to be restrung.
We thread all kinds of bracelets and necklaces, ranging from children's pearl bracelets to opera length pearl necklaces.
Rhodium is a precious metal – like gold, silver, or platinum – only more expensive! In fact, it is the most expensive of all the precious metals.
While rhodium is both too expensive and too brittle to make jewelry out of, it makes an excellent plating material. It is often used to hide imperfections and lend a higher sheen to white gold pieces. Being harder than both silver and gold, it also makes an excellent protective coat that shields jewelry from scratches. One of its greatest advantages is that it doesn’t tarnish and requires no particular cleaning procedures.
Hand sanitizers, soap and other chemicals will cause the rhodium plating to wear down and the yellowish hue of gold starts showing. When this happens, it's time to get your ring re-rhodium plated and polished. The process usually takes 1-2 hours depending on the jeweler's workload the day you bring it in.