Making A Gold Ring Bigger

Rings come in all different shapes sizes and materials.

Making a gold ring bigger.

In this video i take some of my scrap gold and melt it down into a ring. Cut the ring along. They will need to cut the ring s shank and add a bridge of gold to make up. To resize a ring to make it smaller use a coffee stir stick to apply silicone sealant along the inside of the ring.

Gold like silver can become relatively malleable under high heat. Resizing your ring to a smaller size. To make a ring size larger jewelers can either. A jeweler will add extra metal to enlarge its band.

When i had some rings made slightly bigger all they needed to do was stretch them no extra gold needed. 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. 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.

22 november 2010 at 12 50pm. Solder the two pieces back together. Adding extra metal to the band. Use a ring that fits your finger perfectly as a model.

Can t remember the cost as it was years ago. To make a ring smaller jewelers typically. Black works best for gold and silver. Cut the band in the back.

Remove the necessary amount of metal. The bridging method involves a piece of gold metal being cut or added to the ring. I d get a quote from both an independent jeweller as well as a chain. For this reason it s an easier element to mold and shape as jewelry.

Since gold is selling for well over 1200 00 an ounce the difference can be significant. Make sure to use a color that will contrast with the ring. If you need to resize a gold ring to make it larger a jeweler will need to add on more material. More metal will have to be inserted into a thicker wider and heavier shank than a thinner one.

When a ring is made smaller the jeweler usually cuts out a small portion of the band and joins the pieces back together again. Place the ring onto the item and mark it with a marker where the ring fits. Making a ring smaller is a fairly easy process compared to making it larger. The ring a size w and weighs 9g.

The ring a size w and weighs 9g. Making a ring smaller will almost always cost less than making it larger because there are no costs for added materials. The second factor to consider when sizing a ring larger is how many sizes up the ring is being sized.