How to refine gold jewellery with stones

[upcyclist]

Just to share, we process mostly karat golds and we remove the stones prior to refining. It takes a little bit more time but its worth it as you save the value of the stones and avoid any sort of etching from chemicals and heat. A little bit of stone setting skills, a hammer, cutter, a few engraver's bit and engraving block will do.

Stone removal takes time, but it's so much easier when you don't care what the jewelry looks like when you're done with it :lol:

 

[4metals]

Some settings, like a pavé setting are almost impossible to remove by hand, there are just too many small diamonds set very close together. Get in a few hundred pieces set with pavé set diamonds and you will opt to dissolve them.

Be careful with stirring in glass vessels with diamonds, the diamonds will scratch the glass from sliding around the bottom and weaken the glass.