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June 10, 2009
Mom and Pop Shops
A week or more ago I took some earrings to the jeweler to have them reset. I took them to the same jeweler that reset them the first time.
When I bought the earrings they were on yellow gold, screw-back posts. I had them set in bezel-cut hoops. The jeweler I took them to has been around forever; a non-chain, and when possible I prefer the little guys get my business.
It was easier for me to hand over two carats to the local guy than to a large chain. Shrug.
So I had them reset probably seven or eight years ago, and a few months ago one of them bent when I got my comb caught on it. Not the first time it's happened. In fact it's happened so much that I took the earrings out. I had been thinking about having them reset again, and that seemed like a good time.
So I took them to the jeweler. I'm guessing it was Mom, of the Mom and Pop part, that wrote the order. Personally, I didn't understand the shorthand she put on the little envelope, but she's been doing this for 100 years and I have not, so I didn't question anything.
Yesterday afternoon while teaching my class (via a Centra session), my cell phone rang.
It was the jeweler himself. (My request was to have the diamonds reset into 4-prong white gold screw backs.) The jeweler said he didn't understand the instructions - he was about to cut off the hoop part and remount the yellow gold bezel setting onto a white gold post. He said that didn't make any sense, so that's why he called.
I simply said again what I wanted, 4-prong white gold with large screw backs. He said he didn't get the screw-back part either from the instructions written down.
So I'm glad he called. Cause otherwise those would have been some ugly earrings that wouldn't stay in my ears.
As it is, I'm looking forward to getting them back, because my earlobes feel naked.
Posted by Angela Tanner at June 10, 2009 06:51 AM