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Old 05-04-2010, 06:15 AM
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Location: West Yellowstone Montana
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Default Looking for help from Jewelers. Repair gone bad!!

I recently took on a repair job for a friend with great confidence of my abilities to fix the broken joint of this bracelet. I packed Heat Shield all around the stone, piled it on. I, as you can see from the pics, have sucessfully burned out the center of the stone. :( :( :( ... I need some guidence now. What can I do to save this family heirloom? I have this sinking feeling in my gut that this is gonna be one of those life lessons to learn from and move on. Is there a poxy that i can use to make the stone look whole again, and possibly extract the stone(which i was trying to avoid in the first place) and save this piece.. I am using a small propane torch which has worked well up to this point. I can not get a great amount of heat all at once with it. I don't know any other forums, you guys have been so helpful on my road to engraving that I thought of you first. Please HELP!!!!
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