Lapidary Services for the Jewellery Trade and Public

PAYMENT TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Payment Terms and Conditions

REPOLISHING OLD WORN GEMSTONES

Repolishing an old worn gemstone can be done in order to remove scratches, chips and generally to improve the appearance of the gem. You might have a gemstone that has been in the family for generations, it might be your grandmother's sapphire or pop's ruby which has been handed down. Sometimes these gems can be very worn and damaged indeed, to the point of despair.

However, you might not have known that it is possible to repolish those treasured gems and give them a completely new lease of life. You'd be surprise at just what I can do to restore such gemstones to their former beauty. Have a look at these examples to see how these old worn gemstones were restored back to better then new.

If you have some gemstones like these that you want restored please don't hesitate to contact me.

REPAIRS

Repairing gems can covers things like removing chips, polishing out scratches and other damage that can occur with gems either through everyday handling or during the jewellery manufacture process, especially during the gemsetting stage. Gems can get chipped if they are dropped or banged against something. Don't despair, often these chips can be repaired without too much pain.

RECUTS AND RESIZING GEMS TO FIT SETTINGS

Recuts normally involve the recutting of badly done commercial or native cut gemstones into correctly angled designs in order to improve brilliance, colour and other attributes. Recutting will always result in a smaller finished gemstone. As an example, if you have a 10mm commercial cut round stone, you might only receive an 8mm precision cut stone back. Much depends on the overall depth of the original stone, the deeper the stone the better. Be sure that you really want a stone recut! Contact me for more information.

INVESTMENT CUTTING

Today gemstones represent an excellent investment particularly if you have a good eye for high quality gem rough material. To fully realise this investment however you need the very best quality faceting and polishing. Don't spend hundreds or thousands on a valuable piece of gem rough only to send it to the commercial cutting houses overseas in Asia and the like. The old saying that you get what you pay for applies here, if you want cheap that is what you will get. Have your best gem rough cut properly and maximise your investment.

INSPECTING AND ASSESSING YOUR ROUGH

I do inspect and assess rough material for other people.

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CUSTOM ORDERS AND CONSIGNMENTS

Yes, I certainly will do custom orders and commissions including cutting your gem rough providing it is suitable gem quality.

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ALL PRICING IN AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS (AUD) EX GST

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