Resizing Sterling Silver Rings Larger

Your best bet is to take the ring to a jeweller.

Resizing sterling silver rings larger. Now there is no gold on the resized areas just a dull silver. Sizing beads are an economical way to reduce the size of your ring. However it is possible to resize a ring yourself but it will likely lose some of its value. Also as with the above cost factors the metal type.

If you have a simple sterling silver band that needs to be sized up or down one or two sizes a jeweler can likely do the resizing if a ring needs to be resized more than two sizes doing so might weaken the metal causing it to lose shape or break. Types of ring metals. Yellow gold rings are less costly to resize. Traditional metals like platinum gold and sterling silver can typically be made larger or smaller by one or two sizes.

And it only needs to be soldered and polished. 38 larger resize note that the above prices were dependent on the customer s size request. Yellow gold is the most inexpensive comparably speaking but gold prices can be volatile. Sterling silver with amethyst and peridot ring.

Sterling silver fairly easy to resize the ability to resize this medal is comparable to yellow gold. Rings made of most metals can be re sized although gold is probably the most popular because it is soft enough to be altered. 29 larger resize sterling silver and moonstone ring. 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.

After cleaning them in an ultrasound ring cleaner with about 1 16 or less of bleach and a tiny drop of dish soap the bands show exactly where the rings were enlarged. Note there are some metals that cannot be resized. When i picked them up from the goldsmith they looked perfect. 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.

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. I recently had several of my rings resized large. Yellow gold one of the easier metals to resize. For instance adjusting a sterling silver ring a half size larger will basically cost less.

Resizing dos and don ts. The gold is soft and easy to work with. So you can expect a resizing to cost around 40 100. Silver prices are currently.

At the time of this writing march 10 2017 the price of gold was 1 207 ounce. In order of least expensive to impossible here s how various fine metals fall on the cost spectrum of resizing a ring. They re perfect for reducing a ring by one half size and they re great for keeping your ring upright on your finger.