Category: Glue

  • Glue

    Glue

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    Glue is used in jewellery manufacture to secure design elements that cannot be held or fastened with the usual methods of setting, crimping, riveting and soldering.

  • Removing glued gems

    Removing glued gems

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    Every so often jewellers need to do repairs on items that have gems in them. If the repair requires soldering, then one needs to evaluate whether the gems will be able to withstand the heat required to solder close to them, or whether it will be safer to remove the gems first. Gems that are…