Tips or suggestions for cleaning diamonds
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I'd use gold for the white gold ring and plat for the plat but to spare a double purchase just get the gold. The gold will work fine on the platinum ring. No need to buy separate. But the gold is meant to be used on a gold and white gold piece where plat isn't so much. I don't know really how different they are chemically but why risk.
ame: I thought about what you said all night. The scratches may not have been from the way I cleaned my rings. I need to stop examining the metal through a loupe and concentrate on how clean and sparkly all the diamonds are! Any suggestions as to how to stop examining the metal, especially after cleaning since its sooooo shiny!!!!!
Make sure you tell yourself that the loupe is really for checking the stones out. So focus on using it only after a whack or focus on using it only to inspect the stones.
that's the problem......after I whack my rings, I feel the need to inspect them with the loupe......and after I clean them, I need to inspect them with the loupe.....and as I loupe the stones, I also loupe the metal....and that's when I see the tiny scratches!!!!! Then I get chest pain because I feel that I caused those tiny scratches! This especially happens when the rings are SUPER clean because I love to loupe them when they are super clean......yes, I am a freak!
No bigger than me. I loupe mine with a 30X. Almost every day. Even if I havent worn the ring in a month. So I can't help you much there. But I don't look for scratches in the metal, I look for chips, etc in the stone and little skin bits and gunks left behind in my cleaning. OCD is a monster.
It is funny to hear you guys talk about louping jewelry. I used to work in printing and used a loupe to check for register in printed material. I STILL pull out a loupe whenever I receive a magazine; it is just habit. It sounds like I am fortunate that while I know how to loupe a stone, it has never occurred to me to do it often. I did it when I first received mine, but haven't examined it since.
LOL I use my printers loupe on my print jobs all the time!!! That's different! TOTALLY DIFFERENT! TOTALLY RATIONAL!
You are a loupe expert!!!!! What would you do in my case of louping the stones and the metal TOO MUCH after cleaning????
Louping printwork is VERY different, especially if it's part of your job. I do actually work in print, so it's part of my job to check the work, that's less of an OCD and more of a "the job has to be right thing". If the jobs not right, color or registration, whatever...the job cannot go out. Louping rings is more OCD. And really its just a matter of making yourself NOT DO IT.
^ Agreed. Louping jewelry is an entirely different thing. I used to manage gravure print jobs and had to send sample books to clients, so they had to be perfect. But I cannot help you NOT loupe your jewelry too much! That is just something you have to decide to relax about. For me, I have 18K yellow gold bands, and I know they will have scratches and dings. It is inevitable. However, I also know from experience that these do not detract from the beauty for me and in most cases they do not affect structural integrity in any way. What bothers you so much about minor scratches and dings on the metal? The only way a piece will remain perfect is to never wear it, and that would be a shame, IMO.