Do you want to buy new jewelry, but such an expensive purchase is too expensive? If you have gold or silver jewelry that will never be worn for some reason, it can be melted down into a new piece.
Melting gold into a ring or other jewelry is one of the activities of the John God workshop. We will make a beautiful and high-quality jewelry that will highlight your image and will delight the eye for many years.
Melting down gold items is an excellent opportunity to become the owner of modern jewelry with minimal financial outlay.
Advantages of using our workshop:
- Refining of silver and gold is carried out at competitive prices
- After inspection, finished products are assigned a sample
- There is a large catalog of jewelry
- We can make designer jewelry according to an individual sketch
- All work is performed at a high level of quality
- Each product undergoes galvanic treatment
- A manager, designer and fashion designer will work with your idea. products
- Office near the center
- Possibility of our manager visiting
Useful tips
The stove can be made from almost any items that are at hand. When creating it, it should be taken into account that the parameters must directly depend on what power will be installed. Today there are very few places where you can quickly and relatively inexpensively melt gold, so it is worth seriously thinking about designing your own equipment.
If there is a problem with the electrodes, then instead of them you can use the brushes that are on electric motors. If there are certain difficulties with this, then electrodes can be created with your own hands from graphite. When creating, it is necessary to provide several holes, the size of which is 5 millimeters. Copper conductors are placed in these openings.
It is impossible to melt gold without using a special powder. If it is not available, you can try to get it and make the powder yourself. To do this, it is enough to treat the old carbon-graphite rods with a metal rod. Since during heating the substance can burn out under the influence of high temperature, it should be produced in such a quantity that will be sufficient for the complete process. Since the price for remelting gold in laboratories and factories is quite high, it will be cheaper and more profitable to learn how to do it yourself.
After creating the heating device, you need to connect it to electric current. Copper wires are used for this. In order to avoid short circuits and malfunctions, you should wrap the wires with insulating tape. After switching on, do not place metal immediately inside. It is recommended to wait a bit for the oven to warm up. Gold smelting, which is carried out at home, must be carried out in accordance with all safety rules.
Conditions for accepting precious metals:
- Our workshop accepts jewelry for melting only as scrap.
- The cost of accepted scrap is included in the total cost of manufacturing work.
- The cost of work includes the cost of materials and inserts.
- If there are inserts in the product, they will need to be removed in order to estimate the weight of the product.
- To accept the metal, it is necessary to conclude an Agreement with our company for the manufacture of custom-made jewelry.
- Prepayment under the Manufacturing Contract is at least 30%.
- Acceptance of scrap is carried out only at the office of the jewelry workshop.
- In case of concluding an agreement with our manager on site, payment is made only by bank transfer.
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What are you paying for?
There is no single cost that can be quoted for making a new item from your gold.
Price depends on many factors
| What does the amount consist of? | Why else is it growing? |
| Let's start with the fact that making a ring from your own gold will be cheaper than making a chain from your own gold. | The key factor in price is the difficulty of creation. A ring is much easier to make than a chain assembled from hundreds of small elements. And if the product is elaborate and requires a lot of time to manufacture, then the price may rise due to the complexity of the work. |
| Basically, you are paying for the labor of the jewelry maker. | But the final price includes not only the direct work of the author. The receipt will also indicate the cost for making the wax model. |
| Time counts. | In the event that a new decoration needs to be made in a short time, then there will also be an extra charge for urgency. |
| In addition, the final cost will be influenced by the weight of the finished item and the presence of precious stones in it. | You can also hand them over for inlay or choose from stones offered by the jeweler, which will also affect the price. |
If the gold you brought is not enough to make the selected product, you will need to pay extra for the missing amount. But jewelers are willing to add only a small amount of their own precious metal - no more than one gram - since their reserves are usually small.
A huge advantage of turning to private jewelers for a new piece of jewelry is the fact that, if you wish, you can agree to pay part of the amount in gold. That is, if the metal you brought is more than enough for the selected product and there is some amount left, then it is possible to calculate its cost and subtract it from the price for the finished product. But you need to understand that this gold is valued as scrap, and therefore its value is not too high.
If you do not want to include the remaining precious metal in the price, then the excess must be returned to you. They are returned in the form of a gold plate, which must certainly be stamped with the code of a jewelry company or private craftsman.
What kind of jewelry can be melted down?
Almost every home has unnecessary jewelry.
- These are torn chains, earrings or brooches with broken clasps, jewelry with missing stones and other scrap that cannot be repaired.
- Often jewelry has an outdated design or is associated with unpleasant events or people.
- Also, inherited rings may not be the right size. Finger size can also change with age.
- Whatever the reasons why the jewelry is impossible or you simply don’t want to wear it, turning over the gold for melting down would be the best solution.
Melting silver to order is also in high demand today. Despite the fact that silver is not very expensive, you should not throw away broken or outdated items made from it. Today, silver jewelry is very popular, so it makes sense to remelt such scrap.
How is any gold product melted down?
Jewelers say it is a labor-intensive process that takes from two weeks to a month. Before the remelting procedure, you need to clean the gold from dust and dirt that could get there; impurities can spoil the appearance of the future product. At the beginning, the gold that you brought to be melted is placed in a special container, where it is heated to the melting temperature, namely up to 1064 degrees Celsius.
When all the objects placed in the thicket are completely melted until a homogeneous mass is obtained, the master places it in a special form. This form will depend on what you want to get out of it. Then the item you want is made from dissolved gold, such as a ring, earrings, bracelet or chain.
NEW LIFE FOR OLD JEWELRY
Our workshop website presents an extensive catalog, each product of which can be made from the customer’s gold or silver. The catalog contains a variety of jewelry, so everyone will find exactly what they like. It often happens that you need a designer decoration that will be one of a kind. In this case, our craftsmen will make an individual sketch, create and demonstrate 3D visualization to the customer. After approval of the sketch, our craftsmen will make a decoration based on it. The sketch can be based on a drawing or photograph. Even if you only have an idea of what the decoration should be, this is not a problem. Our craftsmen will create a unique product according to the customer’s verbal description.
What gold items will the new jewelry be made from?
Many private craftsmen or small jewelry companies work exclusively with the customer’s gold, since it is expensive for them to hold their own reserves of metal. But what kind of gold needs to be brought there for the jeweler to accept it 100%? A list of products accepted for work can be found on the websites of private companies or you can inquire about this directly from the master.
As a rule, the following gold items are accepted for melting down and subsequent production of new jewelry:
- old pendants, rings, rings;
- torn chains and mismatched earrings;
- items with missing inserts;
- dental crowns and denture discs;
- gold bullion;
- commemorative coins and their scrap;
- gold plates.
An important note regarding dental crowns. Jewelers prefer to deal with these items of at least 750 standard. And dental prosthetic discs made of gold must be stamped with the trademark of the factory that manufactured them. A similar requirement applies to gold plates - their surface must also have a clearly visible imprint with information about the manufacturer.
Otherwise, jewelers do not have strict conditions. They are ready to accept products of different standards for work, but not lower than 500, since lower-quality gold contains more copper than the precious metal itself. The color of scrap submitted for remelting can be any color - yellow, white, red or pink.
At the same time, there is a clear list of gold items that no workshop will accept for making new jewelry from. The list of prohibited items includes the following:
- gold in nuggets;
- plates without names (imprints) of manufacturers;
- items for laboratory or industrial purposes;
- gold filings and shavings;
- medals and orders.
When contacting a jeweler for services, be sure to check with him how much jewelry you need to hand over to create a particular product. The fact is that when making a new piece of jewelry you will definitely need a little more gold than it will ultimately contain in its finished form. The reason for this is the waste of the metal during its melting. Another small amount of gold becomes fine dust during the grinding and polishing of the cast jewelry.
On average, losses are about 10%. Moreover, the percentage increases when the item the client chooses to order is light in weight - the larger the item, the less gold will be lost during its manufacture.
How much does remelting cost?
Today, many workshops in Moscow offer this service, and the price of the work can vary significantly. It is important to understand that in most cases the final cost is calculated on an individual basis. It is influenced by the weight of the product, its complexity, the presence of stones and other factors.
Jewelry workshop John Gold is ready to offer you the best option. For example, it is possible to pay for the work or part of it with extra gold. You can also make jewelry with the customer’s stones or choose from those available in the workshop.
In any case, remelting gold will cost much less than buying a new product, since the customer only pays for the work. If you do not have enough gold to make the selected item, the workshop will provide its precious metal, but the final cost will increase.
!!! It is important to know that when melted, the mass of the precious metal decreases. On average, losses are up to 10%. The smaller the weight of the product, the greater the losses will be.
You can find out how much remelting costs and ask any questions by phone in Moscow 8 (499) 994-4881.
Important - The truth about melting down!
Some clients believe that after melting down and then ordering jewelry for themselves, they will receive a new product made from the same metal that they gave! It is not true! If the workshop promises you that they will make it from your metal, then they are blatantly lying!
It is possible to make exactly from your metal during melting only when the work is done entirely by hand from wire. At the same time, there should be enough metal in reserve!
In all other cases, the metal is sent for refining and then new jewelry is cast from the purified material. Yes, exactly new, virgin, purified metal.
And we’ll repeat this again! If you need to melt down gold into a ring, or even melt down an old ring into a new ring, then 99% of the time you will have a piece made from brand new, purified metal.
Duration of the process and its cost
There are many factors that influence both the duration and cost of the process of melting scrap gold and making the finished jewelry. This includes the complexity of the product that the client orders, and the quality of the scrap gold to be melted down. Of course, the skill of the jeweler who will work with the product is not the least important.
On average, production time can vary from several hours - to melt a simple gold bar - and up to several months, if we are talking about jewelry with complex weaving and inserts of precious stones.
Gold Refining: Centralized Method
Another method of gold smelting is called centralized. In this case, not one or two pieces of jewelry are melted, but a certain amount of gold scrap from various products with different purity.
Here the finished alloy will have a sample different from the starting materials. The sample is determined using a special chemical analysis after the metal has cooled. This gold remelting is not done using a heating pad - special electric furnaces with electrodes are used. Also, during melting, graphite powder is used at the output to produce purer metal. There are also high-frequency furnaces for melting gold, but it is advisable to use them on an industrial scale.
Gold samples: what they are, what they mean
And finally, for those who don’t know, I would like to say a few words about what a sample is. Gold itself is a very soft metal and unstable to the influence of physical factors. Therefore, it is not suitable for everyday wear, and to give it strength, as well as a special stable shade, gold is alloyed with other metals, such as silver, copper, etc.
So, that same sample is the amount of pure gold in the product compared to the amount of impurities of other metals. We can see six samples: 375, 500, 583, 585, 750, 958. Let's take the 375th sample for example. This number means that in a thousand grams of the alloy there were only 375 grams of pure gold, and the remaining 625 were impurities. Well, accordingly, the 958th sample - per kilogram of pure gold alloy will account for 958 grams, and impurities - only 42 grams. The amount of impurities is also calculated for the remaining samples.
