I’ve just found 30 odd pieces of jewelry I made a half dozen years ago. I didn’t know much about sanding or polishing back then, and I want to “finish” them properly now, including repatinaing. I’d like to do it without removing the stones in each case. How would I best do that?
What are the stones and what patina will you be using. Some stones can survive and others might be damaged by different patinas. Following is a link to where this question was asked in the context of LOS. Tell us more…Rob
It’s a wide variety of stones - Aquamarine, opal, amethyst, turquoise, agate, jasper, quartz, lapis, carnelian, rhodochrosite - all cabochons from raw stone.
Hi,
also, instead of submerging the entire piece in patina, you could apply the patina deliberately with a brush or q-tip…
julie
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beryl stones (aquamarine, emerald, morganite, heliodor) all non reactive with LOS. Quartz stones, opal (chalcedony, agate, amythyst, citrine, jasper, carnelian, and a whole lot more that are crystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz) are also non reactive. Corundum (sapphires and rubies sythetic and natural) is also nonreactive. Virtually all stones don’t react with LOS. The only exceptions are native silver and native copper, possibly native nickle in iron nickel meterorites. Soft porous stones could absorb LOS solution when dunked. The solution could continue to blacken a silver setting until the LOS is naturally exhausted in contact with air..
I agree with julie with using a brush or Q-tip to apply LOS is something that I have found to be more controllable than dunking. It also requires less LOS solution to be made up. I use a fine tipped artist’s brush to apply LOS to just the right amount of darkening that I want to achieve. It’s slower but more controllable.
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Thank you so much!
Yes, thank you!
you’re most welcome. That’s why this website exists- thousands of years of collective knowledge from many hundreds of contributors. Best of luck and best of wishes.