Making A Gold Ring Bigger

Resizing your ring to a smaller size.

Making a gold ring bigger.

There are two ways to resizing a ring to be larger. The crescent pieces are then re soldered to the required size to create the full circle once again. Can t remember the cost as it was years ago. The ring a size w and weighs 9g.

To make a ring smaller jewelers typically. 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. 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. 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. Make sure to use a color that will contrast with the ring.

Black works best for gold and silver. Find a hard round surface that is the diameter of this ring but is narrower on one end and tapers toward the correct size. 22 november 2010 at 12 50pm. Solder the two pieces back together.

This could be a metal wine stopper a pen or a lipstick holder. When i had some rings made slightly bigger all they needed to do was stretch them no extra gold needed. Cut the band in the back. Use a ring that fits your finger perfectly as a model.

Rings come in all different shapes sizes and materials. 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. If you need to resize a gold ring to make it larger a jeweler will need to add on more material.

Gold like silver can become relatively malleable under high heat. More metal will have to be inserted into a thicker wider and heavier shank than a thinner one. Cut the ring along. The bridging method involves a piece of gold metal being cut or added to the ring.

The second factor to consider when sizing a ring larger is how many sizes up the ring is being sized. I d get a quote from both an independent jeweller as well as a chain. Of course if you resize it bigger the jeweler must add some metal that might weigh a gram or so. A jeweler will add extra metal to enlarge its band.

For this reason it s an easier element to mold and shape as jewelry. Making a ring smaller is a fairly easy process compared to making it larger. Place the ring onto the item and mark it with a marker where the ring fits.