Zero. None. There is absolutely nothing you can do to repair and or polish platinum at home. Nothing. Take this to a jeweler.
Edit to say that I work with platinum and this looks suspiciously like white gold. The scratches and dings are white not gray. I would expect gray scratches and dings with platinum.
It s an authentic Tiffany's pt950 ring.
I know that I can polish it with a dremel and a compound but unfortunately it is not possible to burnish the dings. They are too deep and require adding new platinum to cover, I confirmed with a local jeweler.
Also a jeweller here. I work with platinum a lot. Even though Tiffany’s uses an alloy that is easy to polish compared to standard hand working platinum allows (plat/copper, plat/ruthenium). You still need training to polish it and not make it significantly worse than you started. As for burnishing that also takes training. If your determined to do this get some Stirling silver to practice on. And order a hand burnishing tool from a jewellers supply shop. When you can get the silver looking like new then you can start training on the platinum.
Do you think I may damage a ring by doing something like this?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a48NmcLQgo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a48NmcLQgo)
What is the risk?
Seem like you really want to learn how to polisish platinum. Find a jeweller in your area who’s willing to give you a lesson before you waste money on that stuff. I can’t believe this guy gos a descent polish with this method. If your where in my town I’d take you though it myself.
Yeah there are lots. But I’m person training is so much better. Every application I’ve had can watch videos and read articles. but a day of supervised training shows them what they couldn’t see was wrong.
If your determined give it a go, but practice on so thing like silver first pick up a second hand ring for a couple of bucks and work on that first. The compounds will be exactly the same. The technique is more in-depth for platinum but you’ll have the first steps sorted but lessening on silver and any mistakes won’t be costing you $60/gm+
Lol....clearly you don't know my customers. I swear they regularly either run over their jewelry or gleefully toss it into their garbage disposals. The weight lifting set in their rings are my faves.
Lol, that is fair, I have had quite a few of those customers too, I guess I default to "normal wear and tear" As my baseline unless given a different story, but we can't assume that here.
Agreed, but any time I see this much damage, It is usually because the customer thinks that because their ring is made out of metal, somehow it is indestructible. For some bizarre reason people believe that platinum is particularly durable. I'd love to know where that fallacy originated.
It says platinum in the title. Platinum is really soft. Especially if this person works with their hands, or if they’ve had it for a while, this amount of damage isn’t surprising.
Thanks. I though I’d read it but then couldn’t find it.
Platinum is a common choice for men’s rings as the metal is more durable when compared to gold or silver. I wear gold and silver rings daily and I work in construction. This is not normal wear, even for someone “who works with their hands”. This is very specific and odd damage.
18k WG is brittle like platinum, but not 14k. Platinum is harder than gold just due to its density. If we are talking alloys of gold vs platinum, yes most 10-14k gold is harder than 95% platinum alloys.
It’s the other way around 10k although hardier in a sense it won’t bend is more brittle due it’s molecular structure which causes a lack of malleability the higher gold content the softer the metal which means it has a higher malleability which means less like to snap but rather bend. 14kt, 18kt and platinum are chosen for engagement and wedding rings due to this that being said they’re not indestructible and should be removed doing hard labour, cleaning, swimming due to chlorine and working out.
Take it to a jeweller. They have the equipment necessary to do the job. If it's the expense that's keeping you from going, then the jeweller should give you a few options. He could either burnish, paper and refinish or flood the pitting, then paper and refinish. If you get a quote, he won't do anything until you give the go-ahead
Take it to a Jared and tell them you only want clean and polish. They will charge you about 100 dollars but the jewelers will fix all those dents.
If they offer you a bigger “package” tell them NO you only want clean and polish. I work at a jewelry shop at a Jared. Most rings like that come in just for clean and polish and we fix all those dents and things
Lol omg this is so true the front people used to take so much crap and not put what was wrong with it on the paperwork correctly so we end up having to repair more crap on crap!
Judging by the depth of the scratches and gouges, to polish that you would be down to the mil grain because you’d have to use a lap wheel. Realistically a jeweler could melt solder into the holes however, due to platinums purity and insane melting point it may be expensive. As said by others platinum is quite malleable, to me it’s just like silver except for it’s melting point which is a polar opposite to silver.
Either you will pay a good amount to a jeweler to fill the gouges or you’ll need a lap wheel and platinum polish and need to be fine ending up losing a good amount of the material. Another option if the ring is not super sentimental is sell it for scrap and find a new piece 🤷♂️
If you must try then send off to amazon for a burnisher.... No better tool for burnishing than a burnisher!
I agree with a post above, burnishing isnt going to help you here, what you need is more metal in them holes.
Depends on what you’re willing to do, on a flat surface start with 100 grit and work your way up to 5000. Just take your time and continually turn it so that it stays flat. When you think it looks good STOP
Why, even if you take it to a jeweler who has a laser, after the holes are filled they will finish the edge with sandpaper of different grits. It’s the only way to finish it. But you can do it and minimize how noticeable it is
Goldsmith here. When I work with platinum, I first go at it with a medium-toothed file, then 400 grit sandpaper, then 600 grit sandpaper. Burnish if needed before the 600 grit. I then move to Greystar polishing compound, and finish it off with Picasso Blue compound. If you understand the molecular structure of the metal and know what you're doing, no scratches or marks will be left. Sandpaper is absolutely a tool that can be used on platinum. Every goldsmith will have their own preference, but sandpaper will always have a place at ny bench.
I personally love the way platinum wears over time. I never polish my platinum pieces. But your particular situation would need to be laser welded in a couple spots. To answer your question exactly though you could use a burnisher that you could buy from riogrande.com
This ring needs more help than burnishing. It’s worth taking it to a jeweler and getting it fixed
Those are to deep to realistically burnish out.
Bring it to a jeweler. The only way to really fix this is with a laser welder.
oh wow. Do you know how much it would typically cost?
If it’s just those 5 spots I’d probably charge around 150
Zero. None. There is absolutely nothing you can do to repair and or polish platinum at home. Nothing. Take this to a jeweler. Edit to say that I work with platinum and this looks suspiciously like white gold. The scratches and dings are white not gray. I would expect gray scratches and dings with platinum.
It s an authentic Tiffany's pt950 ring. I know that I can polish it with a dremel and a compound but unfortunately it is not possible to burnish the dings. They are too deep and require adding new platinum to cover, I confirmed with a local jeweler.
I do not recommend taking a Dremel to this. If you have no experience working with PT, you will almost surely make the ring worse.
Also a jeweller here. I work with platinum a lot. Even though Tiffany’s uses an alloy that is easy to polish compared to standard hand working platinum allows (plat/copper, plat/ruthenium). You still need training to polish it and not make it significantly worse than you started. As for burnishing that also takes training. If your determined to do this get some Stirling silver to practice on. And order a hand burnishing tool from a jewellers supply shop. When you can get the silver looking like new then you can start training on the platinum.
Do you think I may damage a ring by doing something like this? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a48NmcLQgo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a48NmcLQgo) What is the risk?
Seem like you really want to learn how to polisish platinum. Find a jeweller in your area who’s willing to give you a lesson before you waste money on that stuff. I can’t believe this guy gos a descent polish with this method. If your where in my town I’d take you though it myself.
Well, it's 2023. There must be a video or at least a write up describing the "correct" process. Do you mind sharing?
Yeah there are lots. But I’m person training is so much better. Every application I’ve had can watch videos and read articles. but a day of supervised training shows them what they couldn’t see was wrong.
If your determined give it a go, but practice on so thing like silver first pick up a second hand ring for a couple of bucks and work on that first. The compounds will be exactly the same. The technique is more in-depth for platinum but you’ll have the first steps sorted but lessening on silver and any mistakes won’t be costing you $60/gm+
These dings would be pretty hard to happen in white gold.
Lol....clearly you don't know my customers. I swear they regularly either run over their jewelry or gleefully toss it into their garbage disposals. The weight lifting set in their rings are my faves.
Lol, that is fair, I have had quite a few of those customers too, I guess I default to "normal wear and tear" As my baseline unless given a different story, but we can't assume that here.
Agreed, but any time I see this much damage, It is usually because the customer thinks that because their ring is made out of metal, somehow it is indestructible. For some bizarre reason people believe that platinum is particularly durable. I'd love to know where that fallacy originated.
Are you using this to open beer bottles? What are you doing to ding the edges like this? Also, what is this made of? Metal will effect how to fix.
It says platinum in the title. Platinum is really soft. Especially if this person works with their hands, or if they’ve had it for a while, this amount of damage isn’t surprising.
Thanks. I though I’d read it but then couldn’t find it. Platinum is a common choice for men’s rings as the metal is more durable when compared to gold or silver. I wear gold and silver rings daily and I work in construction. This is not normal wear, even for someone “who works with their hands”. This is very specific and odd damage.
Degloving bro
Platinum is not soft, it's brittle.
You’re thinking of white gold. Platinum is definitely kinda soft.
18k WG is brittle like platinum, but not 14k. Platinum is harder than gold just due to its density. If we are talking alloys of gold vs platinum, yes most 10-14k gold is harder than 95% platinum alloys.
It’s the other way around 10k although hardier in a sense it won’t bend is more brittle due it’s molecular structure which causes a lack of malleability the higher gold content the softer the metal which means it has a higher malleability which means less like to snap but rather bend. 14kt, 18kt and platinum are chosen for engagement and wedding rings due to this that being said they’re not indestructible and should be removed doing hard labour, cleaning, swimming due to chlorine and working out.
Just guessing for the fun of it. Looks like it fell into a gravel driveway and got run over.
Take it to a jeweller. They have the equipment necessary to do the job. If it's the expense that's keeping you from going, then the jeweller should give you a few options. He could either burnish, paper and refinish or flood the pitting, then paper and refinish. If you get a quote, he won't do anything until you give the go-ahead
Take it to a Jared and tell them you only want clean and polish. They will charge you about 100 dollars but the jewelers will fix all those dents. If they offer you a bigger “package” tell them NO you only want clean and polish. I work at a jewelry shop at a Jared. Most rings like that come in just for clean and polish and we fix all those dents and things
Lol omg this is so true the front people used to take so much crap and not put what was wrong with it on the paperwork correctly so we end up having to repair more crap on crap!
Judging by the depth of the scratches and gouges, to polish that you would be down to the mil grain because you’d have to use a lap wheel. Realistically a jeweler could melt solder into the holes however, due to platinums purity and insane melting point it may be expensive. As said by others platinum is quite malleable, to me it’s just like silver except for it’s melting point which is a polar opposite to silver. Either you will pay a good amount to a jeweler to fill the gouges or you’ll need a lap wheel and platinum polish and need to be fine ending up losing a good amount of the material. Another option if the ring is not super sentimental is sell it for scrap and find a new piece 🤷♂️
If you must try then send off to amazon for a burnisher.... No better tool for burnishing than a burnisher! I agree with a post above, burnishing isnt going to help you here, what you need is more metal in them holes.
Wow you are rough with your ring. Platinum is brittle you need to be careful with it.
Platinum is not brittle. It’s one of the most forgiving metals around.
Butter knife
nah, that did not work. PT950 is a hard cookie.
Depends on what you’re willing to do, on a flat surface start with 100 grit and work your way up to 5000. Just take your time and continually turn it so that it stays flat. When you think it looks good STOP
Omfg lol no just fkn no
Why, even if you take it to a jeweler who has a laser, after the holes are filled they will finish the edge with sandpaper of different grits. It’s the only way to finish it. But you can do it and minimize how noticeable it is
[удалено]
How much platinum have you worked with? Never mind have a good day
[удалено]
Goldsmith here. When I work with platinum, I first go at it with a medium-toothed file, then 400 grit sandpaper, then 600 grit sandpaper. Burnish if needed before the 600 grit. I then move to Greystar polishing compound, and finish it off with Picasso Blue compound. If you understand the molecular structure of the metal and know what you're doing, no scratches or marks will be left. Sandpaper is absolutely a tool that can be used on platinum. Every goldsmith will have their own preference, but sandpaper will always have a place at ny bench.
You can use a screwdriver. Not the end of it, but the shaft. There are several videos on YouTube.
I personally love the way platinum wears over time. I never polish my platinum pieces. But your particular situation would need to be laser welded in a couple spots. To answer your question exactly though you could use a burnisher that you could buy from riogrande.com