http://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/ How to clean and care for your cultured pearls en Sat, 25 May 2013 13:37:26 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/images/Eloquent/miscblue/rss.png http://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/ http://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7651&goto=newpost Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:26:55 GMT Hi again everyone!

I recently got a pendant that has a pearl on it, and in that pearl is a tiny tiny diamond. It's quite a pretty pendant, actually, except that the epoxy/cement/glue/whatever was used to set the pearl/diamond isn't... great. There's yellowish residue on the pearl from setting the diamond, and the pearl wasn't pushed very firmly into the setting, so I'm not convinced it's solid. I don't know what kind of pearl it is, but I've asked the person I bought it from (it's probably freshwater).

Does anyone know of a way to remove the epoxy without damaging the pearl, and what kind of material I should use to re-set it? Is there a colorless but reliable adhesive that I can use to stick the tiny diamond back into the pearl? I don't know why they put it there, but so it is, and I think it would be sort of neat if it was set properly.

Thanks! ]]> snufflepig http://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7651