How To Restore Jewellery Finishes At Home

Hi, I'm Cherie Birks from Cool Diamonds in London, Hatton Gardens, and I'm a goldsmith here and I have been a goldsmith for nearly ten years and I trained for that in Australia. Ordinarily, we sell diamonds mounted in platinum, eighteen-karat white gold, and eighteen-karat gold. I'm here to demonstrate polishing and resizing of rings and diamond jewelry.

You can do this at home by also making yourself a bath of hot water, mild detergent, and some ammonia. And by doing that, you will just need to get an old toothbrush. We usually use a proper sonic brush which is usually made of either nylon or animal hair.

A toothbrush works perfectly fine, and just dislodge any grease or buildup that is in our around the settings of your jewelry, could be rings, earrings, necklaces, and just brush it in around there, give it a bit of a swish and then rinse it in warm water as well and that will degrease it. To polish up the metal at home, if it has got any bad heavy marking or scratching, you probably won't be able to get that out. You will need to get that professionally removed.

But to just give it a basic polish, you will need a polishing cloth and you just polish back and forward on the metal and it will come up shiny. Now, we know how to polish at home. .