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JEWELRY REPAIR |
John is an accomplished goldsmith. He melts scrap gold, casts it into ingots and further rolls the gold into flat bar stock and wire using a rolling mill and wire drawing plates. John makes beautiful hand crafted pieces of jewelry from these hand fabricated pieces of gold, always showcasing his custom faceted colored stones. John also makes contemporary pieces of jewelry from antique, out of fashion or broken pieces of gold jewelry.
BROKEN JEWELRY ?
I Repair Broken Jewelry !
It took awhile to find an old European Cut Diamond needed to replace the lost diamond in this antique blue sapphire and diamond tennis bracelet.
Repair for a client from Ohio - April 2008 -
These are a few pieces of jewelry I repaired.
I buy scrap gold and gold jewelry at current market prices to reuse and remake into new jewelry.
I also take gold in trade from clients to pay for jewelry I make for them.
What a surprise it was for a Lexington client's 15 year anniversary. - June 2008 -
REMADE JEWELRY
I re-use broken or unwanted gold jewelry to remake into new jewelry.
I also take gold in trade from clients to pay for jewelry I make for them.
See if you can guess which of these use to be a cathedral diamond engagement ring ? a pair of large oval hoop ear rings ? a man's wedding band ? scrap gold ? Answers: The scrap gold is now a 14K yellow gold wide band ring set with the blue topaz I faceted. The engagement ring is now a pair of two tone white & yellow gold earrings with the original diamonds mounted under large yellow citrine stones I faceted. The gold hoop ear rings are now a one-of-a-kind pendant set with a 1 carat oval smoky quartz I faceted. And, the man's wedding ring is now a girls ring mounted with a green lab CZ I faceted.
She wanted three matching rings one for her, one for her daughter in 14K yellow gold and one for her daughter-in-law in 14K white gold. All were delighted.
UP SIZING
I replaced the stone mounting and 4.5 mm, 0.40 carat, diamond in this wedding set with a 6.5 mm, 1.02 carat round brilliant diamond, for my University of Kentucky friend. - January 2009 -
A client handed me this very large pink star sapphire and gold ring with a seven cluster illusion head (diamonds already removed).
I resized the ring, removed the original head, re-cut star sapphire, hand made a yellow gold bezel and soldered it into the ring.
Neat look, I think, made for a local Kentucky client - March 2008 -
Step-By-Step
Remaking an 18K Yellow Gold & Emerald Ring into a Pendant
My client's ring had a broken stone and she wanted to have the ring remade into a pendant in the shape of a lower case script letter "y".
The following sequence of photos show some of the steps I went through to remove the stone, straighten the ring and make it into a square wire.
Three times I heated the gold to anneal and soften the metal and rolled it through the rolling mill until I reduced the entire length to the same uniform thickness. The original band was about 3 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick at the bottom and about 4 mm thick at the top. You can see the original band length measured 56 mm and then see the length increase to 77 mm, next to 140 mm, and finally to 250 mm. At this point the wire was uniformly 1 mm square.
Next I bent and shaped the square wire into the shape of the lower case script letter "y", fashioned a bail from the wire, attached a jump ring and mounting for the stone. I re-cut the broken emerald into a 3.5 mm round faceted gemstone. Set the stone polished the pendant and mailed it to my client in California. Voila a new 18K yellow gold pendant re-made from an old broken ring.
The finished size of the pendant is 24 mm and used 100 mm of square wire.
I made this ring once and then again for an artist who is very hard on her jewelry. First I made the ring shown above left with a beautiful deep purple amethyst which I cut into the shape of a square with clipped corners. Somehow my client from Lexington Kentucky managed to break the stone but, not the mounting. Her mother had given her this pretty red stone and she ask if I could remount it in the ring. Since the round red stone was very close to the same size I just adjusted the prongs a bit. And, then reset the new round stone in the original mounting. It's a nice looks with either of the two shapes.
I’M LOCATED IN
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
HORSE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
MAILING ADDRESS
Gems By John LLC
Suite 150-195
4101 Tates Creek Centre Dr
Lexington, KY 40517
PHONE NUMBER
(859) 539-2407
E-MAIL
JohnWright@GemsByJohn.com
