What a beautiful day in Maryland today. 🤗👏🏻 No wall of text today, just watch the video! But there is a plug: check out the nuggets for our private auction on Thursday night! Want to join? Click three dots at top to access your membership settings and upgrade to Premium. I'll refund first month for any new sign ups by Thursday night, the 29th. Just DM me with your PP or VM @/username and I will send you the nineteen bucks right back. Can't find membership settings? This link should fast track you: http://skool.com/jewelryiq/plans The private show link will EMAIL to you on Wednesday 10/28(tomorrow) - check spam No commitments, always a free community unless you want more. Hit me up with your questions! How can I help you 📈📈? Thank you for being a part of this! Brad

A simple concept that many miss. Bigger is better! Don't snap a photo of a small piece of jewelry and leave a bunch of margin/clutter around it. Center it and expand. This is a quick video showing you my basic photography preferences and how you can use a little background magic to clean the whole thing up... Furthermore, there is a batch option on this app and you can edit dozens of photos in one session. I can photograph 50 items in 15 mins, do a batch upload/edit in 15 mins, and have them all listed in another 60 minutes if the music is vibin and the dog doesn't need to go out. Prelisting is no longer miserable and you can be really happy with your photo quality with very little practice! Let me know if any questions. ♥️👏🏻 Thanks, Brad/Threefortytwo

I never knew Star brand employed Austrian makers. I thought this was cool. 👏🏻

For those of you who have private collections or a large inventory of Jewelry, do you have it insured through a separate private insurance company? Who do you use and how much does it cost? Needing to get my jewels insured.

Ammonia, regular old cleanimg Ammonia on a q tip. Household stuff. It is the common base ingredient in simichrome, 409 etc. The chemical reactions yield the nicotine yellow we are used to seeing with the polish. It is what's reactive in the polish when applied to phenolic compound. Bakelite is a brand name of phenolic resin. Bakelite as a company the og company focused on more industrial uses. Radios Gaskets Parts MachiningStuff etc Catalin, marbelette and others formulated the jewelry tones and special finishes of phenolic resin. There's a seller on Etsy that sells bakelite testing pads. These are genius. They are cosmetic pads soaked in super secret ..Ammonia allowed to dry and become portable for on the run testing. Follow me for more cool tricks.