Nowadays the jewelries are made with different, many kind of technology. The difference is the price, the simplicity, the method of the manufacturing, and jewelry of high standard. To understand what is the material loss, what cost that much on a jewelry, why is it deteriorate or broke, why is it wear away we would like to show you how the jewelry manufacturing working in practice.

It is a general symptom when a customer enters in the shop, and after a quick conversation, he/she would like to order a custom made jewelry from filigree gold. In this case we have to calculate with a lower price of the chosen jewelry. There are many customer being under the delusion that they will have a free jewelry because of the filigree gold. Or if they have some more material then they will get back some money beside the custom made jewelry. Unfortunately this is not the way how it works!

The 14c filigree gold is a special alloy where the standard of the pure gold is broken by the solder. The re-melting  will ruin it's smoothness. This raw material will brake up, will harden. That's why we have to test all raw material at the first step, then we have to separate the alloys from the gold, then we will re-melt the gold, compound with new alloys to get the desired quality and color. This process takes time and it's expensive and usually costs 2% pure gold loss.

The next step basically is the main part of the job. At this time we must know the sizes, the precious materials (softness, color, etc.), quantity and quality of the stones, expectations about the jewelry, every possible idea and information to help us create the item. The jewelries are made from gold sheets and wires. The very first step is to prepare the material..

After the preparation (bended and shaped jewelry-parts ) , we have to solder together the pieces. Unfortunately we still have to consider material-loss. The work  takes time, usage of the tools, the gas for the soldering and melting also increases the cost of the item.

The next step is assemble together the parts then polish the surface of the jewelry several times. After the pre-finishing we have to send the item to the NEHITI (National Hallmark House), where the examination of the quality - usually in a week - they will stamp-in the hallmark Of course this also takes time and cost money. These are the current hallmark signs in Hungary:

The last step is the finishing and fix the possible scratches damages. Polishing, matting , attrition, inserting the stones, engraving, silver-coating or any other galvanization has to be made at this stage.  These manufacturing process is time and money consuming, and the filigree-gold will loose 12% of it's weight at the end of the job (no way to get this amount of gold back). We also have charge several taxes, there is no workaround for this.

At Splendor Jewelry Shop we offer full warranty on all item. The warranty card can be exchanged anytime (beside the free cleaning and polishing three times) to any kind of repairs, ehat is covered by the warranty agreement.

To understand and take care of our jewelry, we have to collect a little knowledge about them. The back of the Splendor warranty card contains the usage of the jewelry as well the weaker points of the item. It also tells you how to take care of the item. Paying attention to these details, our precious metal will have a longer lifetime, not going to broke or bend.

Let us show you some general information regarding our jewelry:

- The precious metals are oxidizing. In certain situations they even change their colors. The silver, in sulphurous enviroment will be coated with sulphur-sulphid (black color), usually from our moisture of body. Against to this decolorization we can coat the item with silver or rhodium.
The gold doesn't produce any kind of sulphid, altough it's alloys can be react with parfumes, or with medicinal baths. If this happens usually the item color will be brownish. Solution could be coating the item with pure-gold or ent-gold (the opposite of the pure-gold coating). Ent-golding removes a very thiny layer of gold from the item, so it will be shiny and polished.

- The biggest enemies of the precious netals are the mercury (home thermometer) and the tin (soldering material). They can be fatal and it's almost impossile to clean them. The modern cleaning materials, chemicals, acids can be also harmful.

- Precious-metal alloys are very soft metals. They are softer than steel or any other metal. A socket of a stone - stands out from the surface of the item - an engraving, a surface pattern or color of the item can be damaged, scrached, the stone can be lost if we don't pay attention to our jewelry. I would like to grab your attention: your jewlry is a precious-metal ornament and you must protect it - like you do with your clothes or car. Mainly the rings and bracelets are exposed to damages. For example the hollow-bracelets are designed for special occassions only, not for everyday use.

- The gemstones and precious stones are valuable minerals, but they are not harder than items in our household. Even the diamond is not as hard as it known, beacause it can be easily cracked in a certain direction, determined by the crystal-structure. The real stones are messed with inclusions, little scratches and cracks; they are breake or chip off easily if we don't protect them. Then it will loose it's value.

- Natural pearls (and certain precious-minerals as well: opal, turquoise, etc.) are water-content formations. They can brake-up, crack or loose it's shine. To avoid the dry-out, you have to replace the moisture in the pearl.

- Pearls are the only water-based precious-stones. To maintain the pearl's quality sometimes you have to put in salted-water, then dry it with a soft clothe. It is important not to keep pearl's with other jewelries because it is very sensitive, can be easily scratched or damaged. You must protect them from acidic chemicals, parfumes, hair-lacks. Keep away from direct sunlight as well.
It is also not recommended to store the pearls in water because the warm-water dissolve the glue used to fix the pearl. Recommended sometimes check with a jeweller or goldsmith the pearls.

- The stones are fixed in sockets without the using of glues. The edge of stone is fixed with a couple of tenth-millimeter gold. The injury of the socket, wear-out of the jewelry can be the result of loosing the stone. There are more sensible or stable sockets, but it is a good idea always protect them.

- The silver ornaments and items are very sensible for hits,and scratches because of their soft material.

- Nowadays the thick but cheap, huge jewelries are very popular. Their structure is hollow, and this is the most sensible category. Their wall-thickness is tenth-millimeter; they are easily get dented, cracked, weared-out and it is very hard and expensive to repair or fix them.Their lifetime usually 1 year, maximum 3-5 years.

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