Thursday, October 31, 2013
Stronger than the StormAs I reflect upon the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, I am so thankful that my business was not washed out to sea. Still, everyone was affected. Many of my clientele were without power for up to three weeks. Most had trees down, some on their homes and some on their property which they would have to pay for out of pocket to the tune of thousands of dollars. Some even lost their summer homes. While generator companies, tree services and hardware stores did well at the end of the year, the loss of sales hurt a lot of other small businesses last year. Even Bernardsville had a lot of empty st... VIEW FULL ENTRY AT: 10/31/2013 10:28:04 AM 0 COMMENTS TAGS: BLOG, DIEHL'S JEWELERS, JEWELRY, GOLD, PLATINUM, PALLADIUM, JEWELRY CARE, DIAMONDS, PRONGS, PEARLS, BEADS, REPAIR, INSPECTION, BERNARDSVILLE, NJ, BUSINESSES, SHOP LOCAL, HURRICANE SANDY, SUPERSTORM SANDY
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Jewelry DiagnosisWe always tell people when they buy a new piece of jewelry, especially an engagement ring, that they should have it cleaned and inspected every six months to a year. some people remember, but most forget to have it checked after a year or two. I see a lot of engagement rings missing diamonds after 15 years or so. If you find that you can’t get in to the jewelers there are a couple of self diagnostics you can perform at home. The first would be to inspect the prongs, the part of the jewelry holding the gem. On a center diamond or colored gemstone there should be a bit of gold sticking up above th... VIEW FULL ENTRY AT: 10/13/2012 01:34:28 PM 0 COMMENTS TAGS: BLOG, DIEHL'S JEWELERS, JEWELRY, GOLD, PLATINUM, PALLADIUM, JEWELRY CARE, DIAMONDS, PRONGS, PEARLS, BEADS, REPAIR, INSPECTION, BERNARDSVILLE, NJ
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Hot Tubs and JewelryYour hot tub IS a time machine... It will age your jewelry. A customer once came in with every piece of her gold jewelry damaged at the solder joints. Her chains were broken, the shanks of her rings were missing where they were sized, and a diamond had fallen out of its mounting. The culprit was bromine. Bromine and chlorine both eat away at gold jewelry. A while back a gold findings and casting company called Hoover and Strong did a controlled experiment to find out why diamond prongs were breaking. They placed platinum, 14K palladium white gold and 14K nickel white gold in various concen... VIEW FULL ENTRY AT: 10/05/2011 09:32:44 AM 0 COMMENTS TAGS: BLOG, DIEHL'S JEWELERS, JEWELRY, GOLD, PLATINUM, PALLADIUM, JEWELRY CARE, DIAMONDS, PRONGS, CHLORINE, BROMINE, BERNARDSVILLE, NJ
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