Preciosa Stone Setting Guide
Are you an experienced jeweller who works with gemstones and stone setting techniques every day? Or are you just starting out and getting to know different types of setting? Wherever you are in your jewellery-making career, this Preciosa stone setting guide will help...
What is Recycled Gold?
For over a decade, businesses in the jewellery industry have promoted recycling gold methods for more sustainable production. Now, more than ever, gold is being recycled and consumers are becoming increasingly aware of what they are purchasing. But what is recycled...
Five Top Tips For When Your Gemstone Breaks
Working with gemstones can be rewarding but tricky. When a gemstone breaks it can be one of the most frustrating things ever! Don’t worry, almost every jeweller has been there, and a broken gemstone doesn’t have to mean a wasted piece. Here are five top tips to make...
Silver jewellery making – Everything you need to know
Silver jewellery making is understandably a very popular form of jewellery making, as the possibilities are almost endless and it’s always in high demand. Here we’ve put together a guide on all things Silver jewellery making to help you along your journey. Definition...
2021 Jewellery Trends
I think we are all looking forward to welcoming in a New Year, which will ideally be filled with fresh optimism, hope and opportunities, which have unfortunately been in short supply in 2020. And although fashion trends may seem of little consequence to some, they...
Top 5 Tips to Prepare for Christmas
2020 has seen a very significant shift towards online selling and given our current ongoing situation, this looks set to continue for some time. As Christmas starts to loom, preparing for the big event for many small businesses will be a little different this year....
Create a Scrap Silver Pendant by Tori Foster
Create a Birthstone Pendant and learn how to facet a stone using scrap silver in our latest project by Tori Foster Tools and Materials needed: Beginners Tool Kit Starter Soldering Kit Third Hand Base Steel Bench Block Leather Sand Bag Hammer Brass Brush Emery Papers...
How to Make a Hand Stamped Ring by Little Black Cat
Create something that is personalised and beautiful like this Hand Stamped Ring by Kirsty Halsey, aka Little Black Cat. Tools and Materials needed: – 3″ Adjustable Saw Frame – 2/0 Saw Blades – Bench Peg + Anvil – Rectangular Silver Wire – Easy Solder Strip – Auroflux...
Make a Beaded Bar Bracelet by Raissa de Guzman
This tutorial will help you to create a Beaded Bar Bracelet You will need the following items to complete this tutorial: Hemp Cord, different colours, 1mm thick Dyed Aqua Jade Faceted Semi Precious Round Beads 4mm Argentium Silver Beads Plain Round 4mm Sterling Silver...
Designing with Gemstones
Designing with stones is fun. It is literally like choosing bonbons in a sweet shop with the endless colours and combinations available and there are many different ways to approach it. A gemstone is the focal point of a piece of jewellery; it is the main event that...
About Me
Robert Connelly GG (GIA), GD, AGA, NAJA, ISA AM has examined and appraised several thousands of pieces of exquisite jewelry the world over since beginning his exploration of the jewelry industry in 1989 as an international wholesale buyer and seller in Brazil and United States. A Graduate Gemologist finishing with at the top of his class with a 97% rating from the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, CA, he established AZ JEWELRY APPRAISERS in 2013 to serve a complete array of appraisal needs within the Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff areas following an educational global odyssey in gemology.
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