Using a Jeweler's Loupe

Many people have their own Jewelers Loupe these days and who loves to watch her jewels with him. Unfortunately not everyone is taught how to use a loupe correctly. Using a magnifying glass is not very difficult, but used properly can actually help examine your own jewelry to identify characteristics, cracks, chips, or other damage, without having to run to the jewelry ever to hit his ring on something hard. Before we look at how to use eyeglass magnifiers, however, let me explain some of the features of the glasses so you can select a magnifying glass quality for their own use.

Selecting a Magnifying Glass

The first thing to consider is increasing. Magnifiers can be found with increased 2x to 30x, or even more increases, like 100x magnifier. For our purposes, it is best to use a 10x magnifying glass since this is the extension that is used in laboratories grading diamonds gems. Under magnification cannot show enough detail, while more expansion can give an unrealistic expectation.

The next thing to consider is the number of lenses has a magnifying glass. Cheap loupes tend to have a single lens. These are fine for occasional use, but you can enter the fire and issues of clarity. A triplet loupe has three lenses that correct its extension to present the clearest vision possible and help correct any problems of color that can be introduced by reflected light.

And finally, your magnifying glass should also have a black body. The black helps reduce glare and do not enter any color as the body silver or gold magnifying glass tin.

With a magnifying glass:

The biggest mistakes that many people make is not resting magnifying glass against something in order to stabilize their visual field and move the magnifying glass around. These errors make it difficult to obtain a coherent and focused.

Using a magnifier is an easy thing to learn, but it can take many attempts to master. The first thing I do is open your lens and hold it until the eye. I like to keep my more than an inch apart. Place your finger or the palm of your hand against your face to help keep the lens stable and relaxed.

Now we bring the object you want to see in our field. With many glasses you need to wear the ring, or a diamond, an inch or two of the magnifying glass. Do not move the magnifying glass around, simply move the gem that is looking to put it in sight and focus on exactly what you want to see. That is all. It's that simple.