How To Repair Costume Jewelry Solder

Are you tired of always being told your costume jewelry cannot be repaired at the jewelry store? Starting Tuesday, Jan 19th on Mass Entreatment, Ashley Kohl and I will show you lot how to make clean and repair all of your costume jewelry at domicile. All yous need is a few household products and a few cheap craft supplies to make your costume jewelry look like new again. Here's what you will demand:

Tight Plastic or Latex Gloves
Toothpaste
Dry Washcloth
Soft dry out cloth (a cut up pillow case or an former t-shirt is bully!)
Brasso Metal Shine
Windex
Smash Polish
Dimensional Magic by Mod Podge
Apoxie Scupt ii office Clay
Super Glue

Beginning you are going to want to wash off the debris and dirt with a Dry toothbrush. If it is an old slice of jewelry you might desire to wet the toothbrush and put some toothpaste on it and scrub it down. Then to renew the gilded or silver shine you're going to want to dry off the piece of jewelry, put a dollop of BRASSO metal smooth onto the toothbrush and brush it all over the slice of jewelry. Brand sure the jewelry is completely covered. Set the jewelry bated for 5 to 15 minutes and if you see green or bluish information technology is eating away at the clay and tarnish. Don't worry it will not take off the argent or gold. Then after a few minutes you're going to want to rub off all of the brass cleaner with a DRY washcloth. Then rinse it chop-chop with hot water and dry it off with a soft material. For drinking glass and plastic chaplet, after you have polished the metal and restored the shine and color, spray some WINDEX on the beads and brush them with your toothbrush. Then rinse them with hot h2o quickly and dry them with a soft textile. NEVER SOAK COSTUME JEWELRY IN H2o! Information technology WILL Damage THE SETTING Equally MOST TIMES Gum IS — USED TO SECURE THE STONES.

Many times I have found I THOUGHT the gold/silverish plating had worn off and information technology really was just tarnished! Y'all'll be amazed, particularly with erstwhile jewelry, to find how much plating stays on and but demand a adept polishing! If the plating has worn off, there are a few products you tin can use to fix the problem.

Jacquard Pigment Powder with Pearl Ex Varnish
Smash Polish

I have establish #1 works best because information technology allows the jewelry to stay flexible and you can command how much you want to use. Start with a CLEAN piece of jewelry. Have a small makeup brush and brush on the pigment pulverisation. If it doesn't adhere, cover the faded piece of jewelry with a TINY amount of Pearl Ex Varnish, then let it dry out until tacky. Brush over the afflicted area with the pigment powder. Let information technology dry and brush the varnish over the area. Use as little varnish as possible! Allow it dry over nighttime! You will be amazed at how beautifully this works.Pigment powders come in 32 colors so the possibilities are endless. I will show you more ideas on how to use this product very soon.

#2 Nail Polish can be used to set up a pocket-sized surface area, but not the entire piece. I use smash polish with DIMENSIONAL MAGIC to create stones and set up cleaved areas of enamel on jewelry. When you have an old brooch that has the enamel missing, you tin can take a eighteen-0 sized brush and advisedly draw in the lines that demand fixing. If a bracelet has a rock missing, y'all can pigment into the crenel with boom smooth so put a drop of dimensional magic into the setting. Allow it dry over night and echo if necessary. This works best on cabochons and smoothen stones.

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Metal REPAIRS: If you detect a squeeze is broken or the pin on the dorsum of a brooch is cleaved y'all tin can easily set it with Apoxie Sculpt clay. This works FAR better than gum!

apoxie-single Apoxie Sculpt dirt comes in ii jars. Take a small corporeality the size of a pea and mix the 2 together.

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You will want to wearable gloves for this as epoxy dirt is toxic to your hands. The clay dries completely in 2 hours so you will accept enough time to finish the piece if you programme it out outset. Put the dirt in the dorsum underneath the broken piece and securely mold it around the broken segments. Use household items like molar picks, pen tops, knife edges and the tops of pins to help y'all create the shape your are looking for. I will testify you how to practise this in more detail on the video. You tin can make bails for necklaces, re-attach clasps and much more with this dirt as it is waterproof! Many plumbers use information technology because it is so durable. It can be sanded and sculpted with a drummel every bit well if you need to be more precise. Hither is a ring fabricated of Apoxie Sculpt and rhinestones. jb-apoxiebezel

Super glue tin exist used to glue stones back into the settings. It doesn't work however when yous are trying to glue to metallic pieces together. Employ Apoxie Sculpt for that. Y'all can purchase chaton crystals on ebay or BETTER Still, take and one-time piece of jewelry and gently pop out the old rhinestones and re-purpose them. Chaton-Swarovskireg-crystal-rhinestone-crystal-clear-foil-back-4-41mm----p4833cyb Chaton crystals are the ones with the pointed backs. You lot can also utilize HOT Gear up flat back crystals if you desire an easy fix. I volition be didactics classes at the store in the early on spring and so stay tuned for a schedule. Feel free to write me with whatever questions you accept. Call back, NEVER throw away your old costume jewelry. WE Purchase COSTUME JEWELRY at Fancy That Antiques! Sometimes, depending on the piece, I will buy it broken if I can make new jewelry out of the old clasps and findings. Bring in your grandma's onetime jewelry box and we volition buy it all! Granted you won't brand hundreds of dollars, merely it's better than throwing it all away! RE– USE RE-PURPOSE RECYCLE and have FUN doing it! That's my motto!

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Malena Chipps, Your Artistic Craft Consultant on Mass Appeal

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