Cleaning Jewelry : How to Clean Rhinestone Jewelry

[@NICEJEWISHMAMA]

I love this vid. Thank you SO much. This is why many good jewelers NEVER us foil backs. You should have a million hits. LOVE your explanation of surface tension. You ROCK.

[@sugarlove]

thank you so much for this video my dear! you are a genius!

[@MrsCaviar]

Thank you! 😊

[@clevelandvitz1]

Water and Rhinestone jewelry pieces are a VERY bad mix. Water will get into the setting and tarnish/discolor the foilback. If the rhinestones are glued in place ( instead of prong-set) you will cause the stones to fall out. The trick with cleaning vintage rhinestone jewelry is minimum moisture or moisture that evaporates ( such as alcohol). Start with a gentle dry cloth, move on to a q-tip dipped in alcohol and very gently dab at the surface. The pin he was working on had closed-back prong-set stones and all that water he was running over the pin is now trapped in the settings. Not good. Some people start a cleaning with a shot of compressed air but again be careful, especially with glue-set stones, not to blast the stones right out of the setting.

[@zoezzzarko1117]

Omgosh thank you for all this good info !!!

[@lorrainewilliams7896]

0:15 Yeah because you want the foil backing on the stone to lift off so they become dull, discolored glass. NOT.

[@QueenofArgyle2525]

Trying to fix my mom’s old pin and earring set. Most of the stones have thinned a dark color. Can Zi save them?

[@evangelinanajar9537]

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