Making A Gold Ring Bigger

To make a ring smaller jewelers typically.

Making a gold ring bigger.

Solder the two pieces back together. There are two ways to resizing a ring to be larger. Place the ring onto the item and mark it with a marker where the ring fits. For this reason it s an easier element to mold and shape as jewelry.

Find a hard round surface that is the diameter of this ring but is narrower on one end and tapers toward the correct size. The bridging method involves a piece of gold metal being cut or added to the ring. To resize a ring to make it smaller use a coffee stir stick to apply silicone sealant along the inside of the ring. The ring a size w and weighs 9g.

The ring a size w and weighs 9g. Since gold is selling for well over 1200 00 an ounce the difference can be significant. Resizing your ring to a smaller size. Rings come in all different shapes sizes and materials.

A jeweler will add extra metal to enlarge its band. More metal will have to be inserted into a thicker wider and heavier shank than a thinner one. Cut the band in the back. Can t remember the cost as it was years ago.

Make sure to use a color that will contrast with the ring. When i had some rings made slightly bigger all they needed to do was stretch them no extra gold needed. They will need to cut the ring s shank and add a bridge of gold to make up. Making a ring smaller is a fairly easy process compared to making it larger.

Adding extra metal to the band. Remove the necessary amount of metal. Gold like silver can become relatively malleable under high heat. Making a ring smaller will almost always cost less than making it larger because there are no costs for added materials.

I d get a quote from both an independent jeweller as well as a chain. To make a ring size larger jewelers can either. The crescent pieces are then re soldered to the required size to create the full circle once again. Of course if you resize it bigger the jeweler must add some metal that might weigh a gram or so.

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. In this video i take some of my scrap gold and melt it down into a ring. When a ring is made smaller the jeweler usually cuts out a small portion of the band and joins the pieces back together again. Black works best for gold and silver.

This could be a metal wine stopper a pen or a lipstick holder. The second factor to consider when sizing a ring larger is how many sizes up the ring is being sized. 22 november 2010 at 12 50pm.