Making A Gold Ring Bigger

22 november 2010 at 12 50pm.

Making a gold ring bigger.

Place the ring onto the item and mark it with a marker where the ring fits. Remove the necessary amount of metal. Use a ring that fits your finger perfectly as a model. The crescent pieces are then re soldered to the required size to create the full circle once again.

If you need to resize a gold ring to make it larger a jeweler will need to add on more material. Make sure to use a color that will contrast with the ring. They will need to cut the ring s shank and add a bridge of gold to make up. In this video i take some of my scrap gold and melt it down into a ring.

The ring a size w and weighs 9g. Cut the ring along. Since gold is selling for well over 1200 00 an ounce the difference can be significant. Black works best for gold and silver.

Adding extra metal to the band. To make a ring size larger jewelers can either. Making a ring smaller will almost always cost less than making it larger because there are no costs for added materials. Solder the two pieces back together.

The bridging method involves a piece of gold metal being cut or added to the ring. For this reason it s an easier element to mold and shape as jewelry. When i had some rings made slightly bigger all they needed to do was stretch them no extra gold needed. Gold like silver can become relatively malleable under high heat.

The second factor to consider when sizing a ring larger is how many sizes up the ring is being sized. A jeweler will add extra metal to enlarge its band. To make a ring smaller jewelers typically. If your finger ring size is 6 but the dream ring you just purchased online is a size 5 then you need to have the ring resized up.

Can t remember the cost as it was years ago. When a ring is made smaller the jeweler usually cuts out a small portion of the band and joins the pieces back together again. I d get a quote from both an independent jeweller as well as a chain. Rings come in all different shapes sizes and materials.

Find a hard round surface that is the diameter of this ring but is narrower on one end and tapers toward the correct size. Of course if you resize it bigger the jeweler must add some metal that might weigh a gram or so. More metal will have to be inserted into a thicker wider and heavier shank than a thinner one. Making a ring smaller is a fairly easy process compared to making it larger.

To resize a ring to make it smaller use a coffee stir stick to apply silicone sealant along the inside of the ring. Resizing your ring to a smaller size. The ring a size w and weighs 9g.