Jewelry Edu | J K Pawn

Diamonds & Precious Metals

Welcome to J&K Pawn and Jewelry! We're here for our community and surrounding areas to give helpful resources on jewlery education, so when you want to buy, sell or pawn your precious diamond or gold items, you know their worth. Wehther you're looking to buy a unique engagement ring for your bride to be, or find yourself in a tough spot and need cash fast, let J&K Pawn have your back through the process.

Our staff consists of certified GIA Gemologits and trained appraisers who can help you inspect and asses your jewelry as well as the jewelry we sell in store.

Diamonds

When it comes to diamonds, always remember the four C's. These four grading areas can drastically affect the quality of a diamond.

CUT

Depending on how a diamond is cut, it has the largest impact on how much a diamond will give you that beautiful sparkle. The cut refers to the shape of the diamond, it's proportians, symmetry and polish. The higher the grade, the greater the stone's brillance and has a direct impact on these 3 effects:

Brillance: The amount of light reflected in the stone.

Fire: The dispersion of light into the colors of the spectrum.

Scintillation: The pattern of light and dark areas and the flashes of light when a diamond is moved.

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cOLOR

We all know that the best diamonds are the ones lacking the most color. The whiter the diamond, the higher it's value. GIA calls this "colorlessness" and rates this on a alphabetical scale from D to Z that is the industry standard across the board.

It's safe to say that colorless diamonds are incredibly rare, and most stores and shops work with nearly colorless stones.

CARAT

We all know this one, baby! It's all in the size in our eyes. Carat refers to the total weight of the diamond, not the demensional size. One carat is equal to 200 miligrams or 0.2 of a gram. For diamonds that are under 1 carat, each carat is divived into 100 points.

Clarity

Due to the nature of how diamonds are created, the high pressure atsmosphere sometimes creates unique imperfections called inclusions (internal) or blemishes (external). To find a diamond without one or the other is rare, as most diamonds have small inclusions. This is what really helps gemologists sperate natural diamonds fro synthetic diamonds.

The industry works on the GIA Clarity Scale below.

Precious Metals

GOLD

J&K Pawn has the parishes best selection of golf and precious metal jewelry to fit any budget, so drop on by!

Gold is seperated into 7 different karat classes, all depedning on the amount of gold in each piece. If you take a close look at your gold jewelry, you may be able to find a stamp, or as the industry calls it, a hallmark.

The color of gold is affaected by the type of metal alloy that is used, and the percentage of how much of that alloy is used versus the amount of gold. There are 4 types of gold color.

Yellow Gold: Pure gold mixed with a bit of silver and copper.

White Gold: Pure gold mixed with palladium and silver, or with nickel, copper and zinc.

Rose Gold: Pure gold plus copper.

Green Gold: Pure gold plus silver.

Platnium

This is a silvery white metal that is concidered to be more rare that gold, does not tarnish or oxidize, and has a greater hardness. Platnium is commonly mixed with other alloys are metals when used to create jewlery pieces. To be consicered platnium, the piece of be 90%-95% pure. Pieces can be identified by a stamp with PLAT.

Sterling Silver

Pure or Fine Silver is very soft and is often combined with other metals like copper to boost it's hardness. Sterling Silver must contain 92.5% pure silver and it typically stamped .925