Making A Gold Ring Bigger

Remove the necessary amount of metal.

Making a gold ring bigger.

Make sure to use a color that will contrast with the ring. A jeweler will add extra metal to enlarge its band. For this reason it s an easier element to mold and shape as jewelry. The crescent pieces are then re soldered to the required size to create the full circle once again.

The bridging method involves a piece of gold metal being cut or added to the ring. They will need to cut the ring s shank and add a bridge of gold to make up. 22 november 2010 at 12 50pm. Black works best for gold and silver.

When i had some rings made slightly bigger all they needed to do was stretch them no extra gold needed. More metal will have to be inserted into a thicker wider and heavier shank than a thinner one. Resizing your ring to a smaller size. There are two ways to resizing a ring to be larger.

The ring a size w and weighs 9g. Find a hard round surface that is the diameter of this ring but is narrower on one end and tapers toward the correct size. The ring a size w and weighs 9g. Since gold is selling for well over 1200 00 an ounce the difference can be significant.

Making a ring smaller will almost always cost less than making it larger because there are no costs for added materials. I d get a quote from both an independent jeweller as well as a chain. Gold like silver can become relatively malleable under high heat. To resize a ring to make it smaller use a coffee stir stick to apply silicone sealant along the inside of the ring.

To make a ring smaller jewelers typically. 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. To make a ring size larger jewelers can either.

Making a ring smaller is a fairly easy process compared to making it larger. Solder the two pieces back together. The second factor to consider when sizing a ring larger is how many sizes up the ring is being sized. Adding extra metal to the band.

Place the ring onto the item and mark it with a marker where the ring fits. Cut the band in the back. In this video i take some of my scrap gold and melt it down into a ring. When a ring is made smaller the jeweler usually cuts out a small portion of the band and joins the pieces back together again.

If you need to resize a gold ring to make it larger a jeweler will need to add on more material. Rings come in all different shapes sizes and materials. Can t remember the cost as it was years ago.