Gold Ring Resizing

Before and after examples of resizing a ring.

Gold ring resizing.

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. Types of ring metals. In order of least expensive to impossible here s how various fine metals fall on the cost spectrum of resizing a ring. Adding extra metal to the band.

At the time of this writing march 10 2017 the price of gold was 1 207 ounce. Costs for resizing a ring depends on the size of the ring the material and the type of resizing. Ring resizing often involve material costs gold platinum and labor fees depends on your ring s intricacy and where you are based geographically. 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.

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. Traditional metals like platinum gold and sterling silver can typically be made larger or smaller by one or two sizes. They re perfect for reducing a ring by one half size and they re great for keeping your ring upright on your finger.

As an example consider this yellow gold diamond ring with channel set diamonds. Yellow gold one of the easier metals to resize. So you can expect a resizing to cost around 40 100. 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.

In total the cost for resizing this ring will be 79. It s going up from a 5 to a 7 so that ll be 59 to resize. 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. Sizing beads are an economical way to reduce the size of your ring.

And it only needs to be soldered and polished. However it is possible to resize a ring yourself but it will likely lose some of its value. There also needs to be enough room on the ring for the. Yellow gold rings are less costly to resize.

There are two ways to resizing a ring to be larger. A jeweler will add extra metal to enlarge its band. Sterling silver fairly easy to resize the ability to resize this medal is comparable to yellow gold. Yellow gold is the most inexpensive comparably speaking but gold prices can be volatile.

After the resizing if there are four loose stones it ll be 5 per stone to tighten. The cost to make a simple ring smaller generally range from 20 to 50. The cost to make a simple ring larger is approximately 40 to 95 depending on the metal. Resizing your ring to make it larger.

They can resize your ring without lowering its value.