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Know when you have bought a piece of nice (although cheap) jewellery, and within the hour one of the rhinestones fall out? Well, we do all too well. While it is not hard to figure out how to repair the rhinestone-jewellery, you just never get around to do it. Hopefully this little basic tutorial will give you the initiative to do so :)
Firstly you have to prepare yourself mentally, because you are going to work with super glue. And super glue, glues everything together very quickly, including your fingers! And the rhinestone will stick to any surface, if you are not very careful. So guard yourself with patience, speed and precision.
To show you repairers that it can be done without help, we created a contraption out of a toiletpaper roll to hold the ring in place while we glued. The roll is just cut in two, put inside one another and sliced a long cut for the ring to be in. We are sure that you can find other ways to hold the ring, if you cannot get this to work.
Using your tweezer, practise putting the rhinestone in. It is much harder than it looks :) When you feel like you have practised enough, move to the next step.
Now with your rhinestone ready, apply a small amount of super glue. Bear in mind that some super glues adhere very quickly, even without anything to adhere to. When working with super glue, you have to be very careful not to glue you skin together - otherwise you will have to cut your fingers apart!
There is no real way to prepare you for working with super glue, other than warn you to be careful. What every has super glue applied to it, will stick to any surface it touches. But it is imperative that you do not panic if it doesn't go exactly according to plan. Just breath and take it slow :) You don't want to get your fingers glued to the table or the tweezer :P
When you have succesfully applied the rhinestone - let it rest for some time, preferably some hours. If you by accident have applied some glue to the surface of the rhinestone, your rhinestone will lose its glittering and sparkeling effect. If your rhinestone is made of glass, you might (with some patience) scrape the glue off the surface. If the rhinestone is made of plastic, it might be more difficult, but not impossible. Give it a try with the hobby knife - and once again, watch you fingers :)
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