Gold Ring Resizing
Traditional metals like platinum gold and sterling silver can typically be made larger or smaller by one or two sizes.
Gold ring resizing. Sterling silver fairly easy to resize the ability to resize this medal is comparable to yellow gold. Your best bet is to take the ring to a jeweller. Ring resizing often involve material costs gold platinum and labor fees depends on your ring s intricacy and where you are based geographically. Types of ring metals.
The gold is soft and easy to work with. A jeweler will add extra metal to enlarge its band. Yellow gold is the most inexpensive comparably speaking but gold prices can be volatile. Costs for resizing a ring depends on the size of the ring the material and the type of resizing.
In total the cost for resizing this ring will be 79. There are two ways to resizing a ring to be larger. Whether your ring was the wrong size from the start or the size of your fingers has changed it may be necessary to resize your ring. After the resizing if there are four loose stones it ll be 5 per stone to tighten.
It s going up from a 5 to a 7 so that ll be 59 to resize. As an example consider this yellow gold diamond ring with channel set diamonds. The cost to make a simple ring smaller generally range from 20 to 50. However it is possible to resize a ring yourself but it will likely lose some of its value.
Adding extra metal to the band. Resizing your ring to make it larger. They can resize your ring without lowering its value. Most often though you can get a ring resized and the cost will depend on the metal and the work that needs to be done.
And it only needs to be soldered and polished. 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. Yellow gold one of the easier metals to resize. There also needs to be enough room on the ring for the.
So you can expect a resizing to cost around 40 100. To make your ring smaller using sizing beads our jeweler simply adds two small metal balls on the back part of the inside of your ring. For a ring to be resized it needs to be made of a metal that a jeweler can work with such as silver gold or platinum says gandia. Yellow gold rings are less costly to resize.
At the time of this writing march 10 2017 the price of gold was 1 207 ounce. Sizing beads are an economical way to reduce the size of your ring. In order of least expensive to impossible here s how various fine metals fall on the cost spectrum of resizing a ring. Based on the current gold prices my estimate of a general ring resizing job should cost around 50 75.
Note there are some metals that cannot be resized.