About Repairs

Apr 16, 2016

– Oh, you know, I’ve got a lot of my friends’ jewellery to fix. Little soldering jobs… Lots of little things like that. But mostly I have to fix my own jewellery… That would be nice!

– You’ve got your wedding rings to do, haven’t you? And there are my earrings… Well, that can wait. Your rings first.

– My rings? I’m not making them. It’s bad luck. You never make your own rings. You ask another jeweller, someone you like a lot, to make them for you. Ok, I made my sister’s. But it’s not the same. Making your own rings is bad luck…

In the workshop.

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Exigency

The requirement as a lifeline is me. I have my magnifying glass riveted to my eye, I check everything all the time. The slightest pitting, crack or oddity in the metal earns the right to go back to the workshop to be reworked, not to mention the setting. A...