What happens to my cutlery during replating?
Assuming that your cutlery is in ‘reasonable’ shape and does not need repairing, after an ‘admission’ inspection it will receive a full pre-plate buffing to remove all the old plate and surface scratches etc. Engraving can also be removed at this stage if requested. It is then inspected, all fork prongs checked, adjusted and repointed if necessary. All pieces then go through a 3-part process – all carried out by hand as we do not use any automatic polishing machines. The final process brings your cutlery to a highly polished finish, after which it is degreased to remove the various polishing compounds, individually inspected and quality controlled ready for silver-plating. You now have the option of two high quality finishes-AMBASSADOR or DIPLOMAT PLATE. Ambassador is our top quality service, where we can spend more time removing the deeper scratches and pitting often apparent in well used cutlery plus work on fork prongs etc…(We should mention that deep scoring cannot always be remo
