Q: Why don't jewelers like to polish chains?

[skoebl]

A: Is teh dangerous




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[yamahonkawazuki]

yup  , been there, plus the wheel likes to grab teh things, and even if it dont whup you, it usually terminally damages teh chain

[yamahonkawazuki]

and skoebl why is it, that jewelers dont like to size weddding bands?

[skoebl]

Heh, I dunno....I love to size plain bands. Most money for the time spent (aside from re-tipping prongs)...It's just anneal, stretch, polish 


Yeah that chain got me pretty good. Hurt like crazy. Bled for a long while. The repair I did held up; but the chain broke in two other places 

[yamahonkawazuki]

id say so. lol what kinda link was it?, oh btw i got 2 rings in broken, one of which was broken in 3 places, with NO collateral damage, ie no twisting. im still tryin to figure out how that thing was broken

[skoebl]

It was a box link chain that I had replaced the two end jumprings and the lobster claw. Chain broke a few links past my solder (as in, my repair held up  ) on both ends.

Yeah I've seen some strange things like that. But a lot of times a ring is all dented to hell; the customer comes in complaining that something we did caused a diamond to fall out and want a replacement (of course it was absolutely nothing that they did). We show them that the ring is basically smooshed flat and that whatever they did must have hurt  .

The 3 broken places might be previously existing seams from old repairs. I've done a few simple sizings on rings that have had half-shanks done, along with various other repairs...So basically I heat it to do the sizing...whole ring falls apart...I leave room cursing 

[yamahonkawazuki]

whole ring falls apart...I leave room cursing   

rofl yup been there on several occasions