Melting Down Gold Wedding Rings

Don t ditch your wedding ring melt it down.

Melting down gold wedding rings. But we can t add titanium. Remaking a wedding ring. 18ct gold jewellery is an alloyed mixture of 75 gold and 25 other metals. Pictured above the rings are placed in a crucible and heated to approximately 1100 degrees celsius at which point the gold starts to melt.

Old wedding rings from grandparents and aunts broken pieces of jewellery that once meant something to those relatives melting it all together with a big flame before forging it into new bespoke wedding bands seems like an alchemical joining of the two families he explains. Hi can you take a gold wedding ring and then melt it down and then add another metal like black titanium in the middle. Gold rings can be re made in 950 platinum or another choice of precious metal. We were presented with a collection of old inherited wedding rings some very worn and misshapen some that had been cut off and damaged to make four brand new rings two gents and two ladies.

Marc choyt on jan 08 2020 hi steve we can add some other metals such as silver platinum or a different color or karat of gold. The cost will depend on the work involved and materials. Dibben recently made recycled wedding rings for a couple from gold that had been donated by both of their families. Post divorce gold bands and diamonds are usually locked away in a safety deposit box or stashed in the back of a bedroom drawer to gather dust.

The main reason why it is not recommended to melt down used gold is because the alloys in the gold do not co operate when being re cast.