Making A Gold Ring Bigger

The ring a size w and weighs 9g.

Making a gold ring bigger. This could be a metal wine stopper a pen or a lipstick holder. There are two ways to resizing a ring to be larger. Cut the band in the back. Making a ring smaller is a fairly easy process compared to making it larger.

Find a hard round surface that is the diameter of this ring but is narrower on one end and tapers toward the correct size. Gold like silver can become relatively malleable under high heat. Resizing your ring to a smaller size. I d get a quote from both an independent jeweller as well as a chain.

Cut the ring along. 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. Remove the necessary amount of metal.

In this video i take some of my scrap gold and melt it down into a ring. To make a ring size larger jewelers can either. The second factor to consider when sizing a ring larger is how many sizes up the ring is being sized. To make a ring smaller jewelers typically.

For this reason it s an easier element to mold and shape as jewelry. Making a ring smaller will almost always cost less than making it larger because there are no costs for added materials. When a ring is made smaller the jeweler usually cuts out a small portion of the band and joins the pieces back together again. The bridging method involves a piece of gold metal being cut or added to the ring.

22 november 2010 at 12 50pm. Since gold is selling for well over 1200 00 an ounce the difference can be significant. Can t remember the cost as it was years ago. 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. Of course if you resize it bigger the jeweler must add some metal that might weigh a gram or so. Adding extra metal to the band. More metal will have to be inserted into a thicker wider and heavier shank than a thinner one.

A jeweler will add extra metal to enlarge its band. Place the ring onto the item and mark it with a marker where the ring fits. The ring a size w and weighs 9g. Rings come in all different shapes sizes and materials.

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. Solder the two pieces back together.