Making A Gold Ring Bigger

Rings come in all different shapes sizes and materials.

Making a gold ring bigger. More metal will have to be inserted into a thicker wider and heavier shank than a thinner one. There are two ways to resizing a ring to be larger. When i had some rings made slightly bigger all they needed to do was stretch them no extra gold needed. The second factor to consider when sizing a ring larger is how many sizes up the ring is being sized.

Place the ring onto the item and mark it with a marker where the ring fits. Remove the necessary amount of metal. Making a ring smaller will almost always cost less than making it larger because there are no costs for added materials. They will need to cut the ring s shank and add a bridge of gold to make up.

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. Cut the band in the back. Of course if you resize it bigger the jeweler must add some metal that might weigh a gram or so. This could be a metal wine stopper a pen or a lipstick holder.

Adding extra metal to the band. Find a hard round surface that is the diameter of this ring but is narrower on one end and tapers toward the correct size. Resizing your ring to a smaller size. Black works best for gold and silver.

A jeweler will add extra metal to enlarge its band. I d get a quote from both an independent jeweller as well as a chain. The ring a size w and weighs 9g. In this video i take some of my scrap gold and melt it down into a ring.

For this reason it s an easier element to mold and shape as jewelry. To make a ring smaller jewelers typically. The bridging method involves a piece of gold metal being cut or added to the ring. Since gold is selling for well over 1200 00 an ounce the difference can be significant.

Cut the ring along. If you need to resize a gold ring to make it larger a jeweler will need to add on more material. To resize a ring to make it smaller use a coffee stir stick to apply silicone sealant along the inside of the ring. The crescent pieces are then re soldered to the required size to create the full circle once again.

When a ring is made smaller the jeweler usually cuts out a small portion of the band and joins the pieces back together again. Can t remember the cost as it was years ago. Gold like silver can become relatively malleable under high heat. To make a ring size larger jewelers can either.

The ring a size w and weighs 9g. Solder the two pieces back together. 22 november 2010 at 12 50pm.