Silver care

Let's face it. The fact is, silver and oxygen don't like each other. It doesn't matter if it is sterling silver or silver platted, as soon as beautiful, shinny silver is out in the open, oxygen starts its battle and before you know it, oxidation has occurred. Now your silver is brownish-black. Uggh.


These ideas are for you to help keep on top of the battle:

• Keep your silver wrapped securely in the drawer.  Of course, one way for oxygen and silver to get along is to separate the two. Remember Grandmother wrapping her fine silver and tucking it away in the drawer?  It's because Grandma knew separation is key.  Note: When you wrap your silver, wrap it in soft material like felt or flannel to avoid scratches.
• Don't touch. The oil from fingerprints lingers on silver and becomes the first place oxidation can occur. If you must touch it, rub off your fingerprints immediately with felt or flannel afterwards.
• Polish often. There are many great commercial polishes available to purchase. Make sure you polish your silver with felt or flannel.  It is best to use one piece of fabric to clean and another piece to polish.   Do not use abrasive polishes or sandpaper as it can scratch your silver.
• If you have waited a long time and your silver is pretty much black, polish twice to get the best results.

Hope these ideas help you to keep your silver looking beautiful!

 

 

NEWS

We have been in the process of expanding our services and class offerings. Here is the latest:

NEW: We have a new addition!! We are so excited. We can now cut and polish most gems to be placed in jewelry settings. We are thrilled to add this to our workshop. (Pictures will be up soon.)

NEW:  We now offer appraisals to our services. We can also re-silver antiques and can easily let you know if any of your pieces are pure silver (gold) or silver (gold) plated.

NEW: With the coming of spring, our schedules have changed a bit.  If you are interested in taking silversmithing/jewelry classes, but can not make it on Mondays or Thursdays, we can now offer classes Tuesday and Friday evenings.  We can also offer morning or afternoon classes any day of the week.  For new classes, we need at least 3 people to take the class~~~ so talk to your friends and give us a call.

Remember: the first nights’ class is FREE

NEW: We also give demonstrations or one day classes to schools, social groups, church groups and Super Saturday activites, etc.  We are happy to travel to Davis ~ Weber ~ Box Elder counties in Utah.  Please let us know if you would like to do something in another county/state and we will see what our options are.

Calendar: We are starting to fill up our spring calendar for boutiques and festivals. If you know of any that you think we would be interested in, please let us know. We are also looking for new stores to sell our jewelry on consignment or other agreement.  We are always on the look out for a new place to share our wares.