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mardi 6 août 2013

Procedure For Costume Jewelry Repair

By Nita McKinney


Jewellery tends to get old and worn out with time. The items may start fading off, or even some of its stones being lost. The owner takes it out of their mind that they even loved it at some point. There is now a solution whereby the piece of work is now open to costume jewelry repair. The people who repair them vary in the amount ta which they charge. The repair gives it glamour that it once had.

Some of the example of repairs on the costume items include soldering of broken items. If say a bracelet had only one simple broken part, it is put together to be one whole segment again. Electroplating is the other form of repair. This makes the jewellery look sleek. Stone replacement can also be done on the precious item if any of the stones had fallen off.

There are times that re-manufacturing is actually called for. This is a step that is taken because some of them are made as pairs. It is therefore to manufacture the missing pair so as to make the jewellery whole again. Care should however be taken for one not to come up with the exact material, they should look for them carefully.

So as to avoid confusion, the repairing company will always contact the owner of the item to establish some things. One of them is what the material is made of. They have to know this so that they do not inconvenience their customers. They also have to confirm with the customers what the price of the material is at the moment. This prepares them for the costs involved.

Restyling of the costume items is the other thing that can be done. They have to consult the owner before dong this. By restyling it, they make it look different from what the original one looked like. This is however only done whereby the original piece is actually irreparable.

Selling them after repair is a choice made by some people. However it only happens in certain situations like where one loved the piece of art no more. The other situation is where they needed the money direly and then only source would be by selling them. It could also be possible for one to sell the old ones in order to get new ones.

For them to sell them, they have several options. One, they could sell them to the person that is repairing them especially if they are gold made. If not made of gold, they could as well sell them to those repairing it for them. Here they can choose to either sell them just as they are or wait for them to be repaired and then sell them. This earns them more money.

Lastly, it is notable that almost everyone loves jewellery. It is therefore very unfair to 'throw' the ones that have lost their glamour away from the ones that you love at the moment. Repairing them can be the best step that one can take since it is even cheap. If the jewellery is in a very bad state, then this is where the costume jewelry repair becomes more costly. Just repair it though, for selling or for wearing it again.




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