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Can you resize a ring from 7 3/4 to 5 1/4 safely?
Hello
Hope someone can help me out please. I made a big mistake when I bought my girlfriends engagement ring. The ring I bought is a size 7 3/4(56mm) and my girlfriends finger is only 5 1/4(49.6mm). Is it possible to resize? The engagement ring is 14ct gold. The diamond is 1/3ct and set in white gold. I bought the ring in Germany and am living in Japan. If I want to exchange the ring, the shop in Germany said they charge $135 postage one way, so postage altogether will cost about $200. The jewellery smiths in Japan are worried the joints connecting the white to the yellow gold will snap when resizing. Also 14ct jewellery is very rare in Japan. Even if it snaps, will the repairs work out cheaper than the exorbitant postage charges? If someone can help, you'd be a lifesaver. If you need more information, please email me. Thank you Paul Callaly |
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The jewellery smiths in Japan are worried the joints connecting the
white to the yellow gold will snap when resizing. Also 14ct jewellery is very rare in Japan. Even if it snaps, will the repairs work out cheaper than the exorbitant postage charges? If it's a typicle tiffany style engagement ring, there should be no problem. The ring probably started out as a 6 or 6.5 anyway. They should make sure the stone stays tight, but other than that there should not be a problem. |
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Sounds like you may have to re-shank the ring. The Japanese jewelers must
have suggested this? They could use 18K or 22K or whatever. Shouldn't cost that much. "Paul" wrote in message ... Hello Hope someone can help me out please. I made a big mistake when I bought my girlfriends engagement ring. The ring I bought is a size 7 3/4(56mm) and my girlfriends finger is only 5 1/4(49.6mm). Is it possible to resize? The engagement ring is 14ct gold. The diamond is 1/3ct and set in white gold. I bought the ring in Germany and am living in Japan. If I want to exchange the ring, the shop in Germany said they charge $135 postage one way, so postage altogether will cost about $200. The jewellery smiths in Japan are worried the joints connecting the white to the yellow gold will snap when resizing. Also 14ct jewellery is very rare in Japan. Even if it snaps, will the repairs work out cheaper than the exorbitant postage charges? If someone can help, you'd be a lifesaver. If you need more information, please email me. Thank you Paul Callaly |
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Sounds like you may have to re-shank the ring.
What possible reason would there be for reshanking? Even if by some wild stretch of the imagination the solder broke free, just resolder it. There's probably more chance of the stone loosening, than the solder joint breaking. Cost should be low unless they are trying to rip you off. The Japanese jewelers must have suggested this? If they do, run away. Quickly. I've seen nothing in your post that tells me that this is anything more than a simple down sizing. They could use 18K or 22K or whatever. Shouldn't cost that much. Hell, If you're going to go to all of that trouble you might just as well have it completely remounted. Take it to someone that knows what they are doing, that isn't trying to rip you off, and get them to do a realitivly simple sizing. |
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Thank you all for the replies
Shops here seem to be afraid to do anything with the ring, because it's 14ct gold. One guy said if the joint broke it would cost over $600 for him to fix it. Other places will only repair if I sign a waiver. They are charging around $500. It's really getting to me now. The reason I bought it in Germany was that everything is outrageously expensive over here. But now instead of getting ripped off buying the ring, I going to get caught repairing it. Its a very simple ring. It's a gold band, with a plain, white gold holder for the diamond. You can get a good look at it on the shop website at http://www.christ.de. It's the ring in the advertisement in the bottom left of the page. "Ein solitaire sagt..." If I was to get it repaired in Hawaii or something(friend going soon), how much roughly would it cost to repair, worst case scenario? Thanks again for your time Paul "Lamedeer" wrote in message . .. Sounds like you may have to re-shank the ring. The Japanese jewelers must have suggested this? They could use 18K or 22K or whatever. Shouldn't cost that much. |
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If you pay attention you will notice that the man said there was difficulty
obtaining 14K solder. "NE333RO" wrote in message ... Sounds like you may have to re-shank the ring. What possible reason would there be for reshanking? Even if by some wild stretch of the imagination the solder broke free, just resolder it. There's probably more chance of the stone loosening, than the solder joint breaking. Cost should be low unless they are trying to rip you off. The Japanese jewelers must have suggested this? If they do, run away. Quickly. I've seen nothing in your post that tells me that this is anything more than a simple down sizing. They could use 18K or 22K or whatever. Shouldn't cost that much. Hell, If you're going to go to all of that trouble you might just as well have it completely remounted. Take it to someone that knows what they are doing, that isn't trying to rip you off, and get them to do a realitivly simple sizing. |
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If you pay attention you will notice that the man said there was difficulty
obtaining 14K solder. No thats not what the man said. He said 14K jewelry was very rare in Japan. 14K solder is easily ordered anywhere in the world. For that matter, any jeweler worth his salt could make the solder he needs and probably already has it on hand. Or use higher karat solder. Or use the solder which was on it originally, which is probably what would end up happening. |
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Thank you all for the replies
Shops here seem to be afraid to do anything with the ring, because it's 14ct gold. I think it's probably more of a design thing than a 14K thing (though higher karat might be softer). Now that I've seen the ring, that particular design can, at times, be a pain. Usually because the bezel holding the stone can deform, loosening the stone when sized down that much. Unless they see something wrong with that particular ring, I wouldn't consider the head breaking from the shank to be of major concern. A good jeweler should still be able to deal with it. If push came to shove you could always pull the head, size the shank down, cut a new seat for the head and resolder it. One guy said if the joint broke it would cost over $600 for him to fix it. Other places will only repair if I sign a waiver. They are charging around $500. That amazes me. If I melted the ring away to nothing, bought the parts from Rio, assembled it, sized it, set your stone, and really ripped you off, I'm STILL not sure I could get the price all the way up to $600. If I was to get it repaired in Hawaii or something(friend going soon), how much roughly would it cost to repair, worst case scenario? I can't speak to the prices in Hawaii but I'd still send it there with your friend. If you were in Florida I can't see any way the sizing/repair/whatever could possibly exceed $150.00. If things went well maybe $25.00. I'm guessing you'd probably be around $60.00, partially because of the probable need to at least tighten the stone and partially because of the pucker factor. Make sure you get the size right this time ) |
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That is what I would charge ( $30 - $80 ) yep there is a bit of pucker
factor with the bezel. Another thought is to not completely "round" up the ring after sizing. This is a standard thing I was thought with bezel or channel set stones . That is what we would tell the customer when they brought in that type of ring. ( your finger is not perfectly round anyway ) That said ...... SHEESH I'M Moving to Japan ...$500 is a total rip off. Just my $.02 Mark "NE333RO" wrote in message ... Thank you all for the replies Shops here seem to be afraid to do anything with the ring, because it's 14ct gold. I think it's probably more of a design thing than a 14K thing (though higher karat might be softer). Now that I've seen the ring, that particular design can, at times, be a pain. Usually because the bezel holding the stone can deform, loosening the stone when sized down that much. Unless they see something wrong with that particular ring, I wouldn't consider the head breaking from the shank to be of major concern. A good jeweler should still be able to deal with it. If push came to shove you could always pull the head, size the shank down, cut a new seat for the head and resolder it. One guy said if the joint broke it would cost over $600 for him to fix it. Other places will only repair if I sign a waiver. They are charging around $500. That amazes me. If I melted the ring away to nothing, bought the parts from Rio, assembled it, sized it, set your stone, and really ripped you off, I'm STILL not sure I could get the price all the way up to $600. If I was to get it repaired in Hawaii or something(friend going soon), how much roughly would it cost to repair, worst case scenario? I can't speak to the prices in Hawaii but I'd still send it there with your friend. If you were in Florida I can't see any way the sizing/repair/whatever could possibly exceed $150.00. If things went well maybe $25.00. I'm guessing you'd probably be around $60.00, partially because of the probable need to at least tighten the stone and partially because of the pucker factor. Make sure you get the size right this time ) |
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"Mark" wrote in message
. .. That is what I would charge ( $30 - $80 ) yep there is a bit of pucker factor with the bezel. Another thought is to not completely "round" up the ring after sizing. This is a standard thing I was thought with bezel or channel set stones . That is what we would tell the customer when they brought in that type of ring. ( your finger is not perfectly round anyway ) That said ...... SHEESH I'M Moving to Japan ...$500 is a total rip off. Just my $.02 Mark "NE333RO" wrote in message ... Thank you all for the replies Shops here seem to be afraid to do anything with the ring, because it's 14ct gold. I think it's probably more of a design thing than a 14K thing (though higher karat might be softer). Now that I've seen the ring, that particular design can, at times, be a pain. Usually because the bezel holding the stone can deform, loosening the stone when sized down that much. Unless they see something wrong with that particular ring, I wouldn't consider the head breaking from the shank to be of major concern. A good jeweler should still be able to deal with it. If push came to shove you could always pull the head, size the shank down, cut a new seat for the head and resolder it. One guy said if the joint broke it would cost over $600 for him to fix it. Other places will only repair if I sign a waiver. They are charging around $500. That amazes me. If I melted the ring away to nothing, bought the parts from Rio, assembled it, sized it, set your stone, and really ripped you off, I'm STILL not sure I could get the price all the way up to $600. If I was to get it repaired in Hawaii or something(friend going soon), how much roughly would it cost to repair, worst case scenario? I can't speak to the prices in Hawaii but I'd still send it there with your friend. If you were in Florida I can't see any way the sizing/repair/whatever could possibly exceed $150.00. If things went well maybe $25.00. I'm guessing you'd probably be around $60.00, partially because of the probable need to at least tighten the stone and partially because of the pucker factor. Make sure you get the size right this time ) Thanks all for your advice. I finally found a back street shop that fixed it. A nice old man who said even if it breaks it's easy to fix(like you all said). My girlfriend(fiance) said the other shops were afraid of losing face in case it broke(bad luck or something), and that's why they didn't want to do it. I don't know what the reason was, I'm just happy it's fixed. By the way, it cost about $50. Small complication when he was cutting, he said. He didn't know the gold was hollow. Thanks again Paul |
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