Doc da fix it man!

Cookie, thanks for the PR. I am not perfect, and sometimes I bite off more than I can chew.
Yesterday, I was so tired, I was trying to fix a ring for someone who had stepped on it. It broke in four pieces.
I soldered a joint and said to Jenne, It is missing a piece! I put it down. Later, we went home.
Today, I went to the shop and the first thing I saw was the fourth piece of gold, sitting in my jaws waiting to be soldered.
You're ring was a simple fix. It should have been done right the first time. The setting was put askew in the shank. The stone had been set by bending the prongs to make it look straight. The tips of the marquise setting were not cut into the prongs enough. It was a simple matter of removing the setting, straightening out the prongs, building the entire ring from essentially scratch.
The tip prongs need a cut, that goes across the prong, and down the prong. A marquise cut recquires the tip prongs to be brought together over the tip. By cutting into the tip prong vertically, the cut allows the gold to be folded onto the tip from both sides. Polishing masks the small cut and flows the metal over the mark.
I also sanded a cross hatch in the shank. That makes the ring less likely to fall over on the finger.
This is mother's day weekend. I am not even going to bring the saphire into the shop. There will be too much insanity. Sunday will be the day of the broken rope chain necklaces and black eyes. Happy Mother's day.
Valentines Day, torn necklaces, ripped earlobes, stomped on pendants, black eyes, bruises.
Jewelers know a lot of things most people never consider a reality.
Cookie, again, thanks for the PR. It makes my heart glad to be able to do what I can to keep a memory alive. It makes the rest worth while.
Good meeting Hubby also, he sounds like a good guy.
I have met some good people on this forum. Even Andy/Mark.

hey cookie cool ring ----and doc very nice fix it came out great

great save, Doc! nice ring, Cookie! can't wait to see the sapphire!

KD

Cookie, the crosshatch pattern I imprint on the inside of the ring shank is like honing the inside of a cylinder in an engine. It knurls the metal into little microscopic ridges. They form distorted X's and grip the skin.
Jewelery Cleaner is designed to make shiney for four or five times, and then either break down the ring, or plate it with copper from previous soakings.
A person come to the shop a few weeks back. She had put her ring into cleaning solution as she had time and time before. It came out red, copper coloured, and it took removing the stones and mechanically polishing the copper off the ring. It took forever plus the stones had to be reset. Anytime stones are removed, the risk of cracking the stones exists.
The best cleaner is Baking Soda and a dry rag. The Sodium Bicarbonate removes oxides and de oxidizes the metal.
No Jewelery Cleaner, no matter how reliable a source it comes from. If the piece is really oxidized. Wrap it in tinfoil with Baking Soda in the package, put it in the oven at 500 degrees for five hours. Allow to air cool.
Amythist will lighten, topaz will get bluer although it will most likely not be noticed. Silver rings with stones are never cooked in the oven. The packing behind the stone will expand and push the stone out.
No jewelery cleaner!!!!!!