Making A Gold Ring Bigger

Make sure to use a color that will contrast with the ring.

Making a gold ring bigger.

When a ring is made smaller the jeweler usually cuts out a small portion of the band and joins the pieces back together again. More metal will have to be inserted into a thicker wider and heavier shank than a thinner one. Gold like silver can become relatively malleable under high heat. Of course if you resize it bigger the jeweler must add some metal that might weigh a gram or so.

Making a ring smaller will almost always cost less than making it larger because there are no costs for added materials. The crescent pieces are then re soldered to the required size to create the full circle once again. The second factor to consider when sizing a ring larger is how many sizes up the ring is being sized. Black works best for gold and silver.

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. Use a ring that fits your finger perfectly as a model. The ring a size w and weighs 9g. Rings come in all different shapes sizes and materials.

Place the ring onto the item and mark it with a marker where the ring fits. To make a ring smaller jewelers typically. Solder the two pieces back together. To resize a ring to make it smaller use a coffee stir stick to apply silicone sealant along the inside of the ring.

Adding extra metal to the band. There are two ways to resizing a ring to be larger. Cut the ring along. Since gold is selling for well over 1200 00 an ounce the difference can be significant.

The bridging method involves a piece of gold metal being cut or added to the ring. Cut the band in the back. Resizing your ring to a smaller size. In this video i take some of my scrap gold and melt it down into a ring.

When i had some rings made slightly bigger all they needed to do was stretch them no extra gold needed. Making a ring smaller is a fairly easy process compared to making it larger. Remove the necessary amount of metal. This could be a metal wine stopper a pen or a lipstick holder.

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. They will need to cut the ring s shank and add a bridge of gold to make up. The ring a size w and weighs 9g.

22 november 2010 at 12 50pm. If you need to resize a gold ring to make it larger a jeweler will need to add on more material. Can t remember the cost as it was years ago.