Making A Gold Ring Bigger

When a ring is made smaller the jeweler usually cuts out a small portion of the band and joins the pieces back together again.

Making a gold ring bigger.

For this reason it s an easier element to mold and shape as jewelry. Cut the band in the back. To make a ring smaller jewelers typically. I d get a quote from both an independent jeweller as well as a chain.

Making a ring smaller is a fairly easy process compared to making it larger. Rings come in all different shapes sizes and materials. Resizing your ring to a smaller size. Use a ring that fits your finger perfectly as a model.

Remove the necessary amount of metal. 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. 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. When i had some rings made slightly bigger all they needed to do was stretch them no extra gold needed. Adding extra metal to the band. In this video i take some of my scrap gold and melt it down into a ring.

22 november 2010 at 12 50pm. 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. Making a ring smaller will almost always cost less than making it larger because there are no costs for added materials.

A jeweler will add extra metal to enlarge its band. Since gold is selling for well over 1200 00 an ounce the difference can be significant. There are two ways to resizing a ring to be larger. Gold like silver can become relatively malleable under high heat.

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. To resize a ring to make it smaller use a coffee stir stick to apply silicone sealant along the inside of the ring. Black works best for gold and silver. The ring a size w and weighs 9g.

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. Place the ring onto the item and mark it with a marker where the ring fits. To make a ring size larger jewelers can either.

This could be a metal wine stopper a pen or a lipstick holder. The ring a size w and weighs 9g. Solder the two pieces back together.