Making A Gold Ring Bigger

Find a hard round surface that is the diameter of this ring but is narrower on one end and tapers toward the correct size.

Making a gold ring bigger.

This could be a metal wine stopper a pen or a lipstick holder. 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. A jeweler will add extra metal to enlarge its band.

Cut the ring along. The crescent pieces are then re soldered to the required size to create the full circle once again. Remove the necessary amount of metal. Black works best for gold and silver.

Gold like silver can become relatively malleable under high heat. Resizing your ring to a smaller size. Place the ring onto the item and mark it with a marker where the ring fits. For this reason it s an easier element to mold and shape as jewelry.

Can t remember the cost as it was years ago. To make a ring size larger jewelers can either. Making a ring smaller will almost always cost less than making it larger because there are no costs for added materials. Since gold is selling for well over 1200 00 an ounce the difference can be significant.

To resize a ring to make it smaller use a coffee stir stick to apply silicone sealant along the inside of the ring. If you need to resize a gold ring to make it larger a jeweler will need to add on more material. Making a ring smaller is a fairly easy process compared to making it larger. Solder the two pieces back together.

When i had some rings made slightly bigger all they needed to do was stretch them no extra gold needed. I d get a quote from both an independent jeweller as well as a chain. Cut the band in the back. They will need to cut the ring s shank and add a bridge of gold to make up.

Use a ring that fits your finger perfectly as a model. 22 november 2010 at 12 50pm. Make sure to use a color that will contrast with the ring. To make a ring smaller jewelers typically.

The ring a size w and weighs 9g. There are two ways to resizing a ring to be larger. Rings come in all different shapes sizes and materials. The bridging method involves a piece of gold metal being cut or added to the ring.

In this video i take some of my scrap gold and melt it down into a ring. 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. Adding extra metal to the band.