How to increase the size of a gold or silver ring

The moment of joint pur­chase of a ring in a jew­el­ry bou­tique or in an online store is one of the most impor­tant and most excit­ing in the life of every cou­ple.

It often hap­pens that prepa­ra­tions for an engage­ment, wed­ding or oth­er impor­tant date are car­ried out in a rush sit­u­a­tion when there is no time or oppor­tu­ni­ty to accu­rate­ly mea­sure the size of a fin­ger. It hap­pens that it is swollen after try­ing on and buy­ing jew­el­ry. This is a nat­ur­al behav­ior of the body due to changes in tem­per­a­ture, blood pres­sure, swelling due to work with chem­i­cals, weight gain in both women and men.

You will learn how and by how many sizes the ring can be enlarged, whether it is pos­si­ble to do it your­self, by read­ing this arti­cle to the end.

Can a silver ring be enlarged?

Jew­el­ry is designed to please the own­ers with its beau­ty and radi­ance. When a favorite ring becomes tight, it is very frus­trat­ing, espe­cial­ly if it has been worn on the ring fin­ger for many years with­out tak­ing it off.

Then it is nec­es­sary to cor­rect the size of the prod­uct not only for aes­thet­ics, but also for your own com­fort when wear­ing it. Agree, it looks ugly if the rim of the ring strong­ly squeezes the fin­ger, and even painful­ly digs into the skin to the point of red­ness.

The eas­i­est method of how to quick­ly and inde­pen­dent­ly increase the size of the ring at home is rolling it out using a gas burn­er or sol­der­ing iron.

The dec­o­ra­tion is heat­ed over the flame and slow­ly (!) rolled out, chang­ing its size. If you do this right away, the bezel will become too large. The whole pro­ce­dure at home takes no more than half an hour. If dur­ing rolling the rim is deformed, it is com­pared using a ham­mer with a rub­ber pad.

How to stretch a ring at home

1. It is nec­es­sary to glow the ring with a burn­er or sol­der­ing iron.

2. Allow the prod­uct to cool com­plete­ly.

3. Gen­tly roll out with a hard object.

4. Smooth with a ham­mer (only with a rub­ber pad, oth­er­wise the dec­o­ra­tion may be dam­aged).

5. Pol­ish with a microfiber cloth.

How much can you increase the size of the ring?

The thick­er the bezel, the more it can be enlarged. Thin mod­els also roll out, but quick­ly deform and even break.

Like all non-pro­fes­sion­al pro­ce­dures, any method of rolling a gold or sil­ver ring at home is a big risk.

Even if you have a sim­i­lar gas burn­er or sol­der­ing iron, a ham­mer with a rub­ber lin­ing, but in the absence of rel­e­vant expe­ri­ence and skills, it is bet­ter not to risk it, but to entrust your jew­el­ry to a pro­fes­sion­al crafts­man.

While you your­self will stretch the heat­ed ring at home, you can severe­ly dam­age it.

If you change the diam­e­ter of a thin open­work rim, it may burst. Then the prod­uct can no longer be restored. Anoth­er impor­tant point is that after adjust­ment, the dec­o­ra­tion will def­i­nite­ly need to be prop­er­ly sand­ed and pol­ished using spe­cial devices and tools.

Can a diamond ring be enlarged?

The eas­i­est way to change the size of a wide and smooth ring. This is an inex­pen­sive and quick pro­ce­dure, after which the jew­el will shine like new. In the case of com­plex struc­tures, this is pos­si­ble, but then the work will cost more.

Only a spe­cial­ist with exten­sive expe­ri­ence should increase the size of a gold ring with a dia­mond insert. He will not always take up such work, because when heat­ed, under pres­sure, the stone can fall out and dete­ri­o­rate. Or the stone must be removed and then insert­ed, which is also asso­ci­at­ed with the risk of dam­age.

There are sev­er­al cat­e­gories of rings, the size of which should nev­er be changed:

• with enam­el pat­terns, because there is a risk of severe­ly dam­ag­ing the enam­el and not every jew­el­ry work­shop has mate­ri­als for its restora­tion;

• cheap cos­tume jew­el­ry from unknown alloys. As a result of heat treat­ment, the col­or of the sur­face of the dec­o­ra­tion may change (dark­en or turn green), and the mate­r­i­al may crum­ble;

• with a mat­te fin­ish. Before stretch­ing a mat­te coat­ed sil­ver ring, you need to think care­ful­ly, because after resiz­ing it will look dif­fer­ent;

• with engrav­ing. If a decrease in size has almost no effect on the inscrip­tion or it under­goes min­i­mal cor­rec­tion, then when increased by , it is com­plete­ly deformed;

• with a spring or a scat­ter­ing of small pre­cious stones (pavé set­ting) — they will be melt­ed togeth­er with the met­al;

• trans­form­ers will lose their orig­i­nal shape;

• with a com­plex author’s design — open­work mod­el or with dia­mond notch­es — the met­al will stretch and bend;

• plat­inum mod­els are dif­fi­cult to heat and hand work. After it, unaes­thet­ic traces of black sol­der­ing remain on the sur­face of plat­inum jew­el­ry, which are almost impos­si­ble to remove. A spe­cial laser is used for cut­ting, but not all jew­el­ry work­shops have it.

How to enlarge a gold ring in a jewelry workshop

Mod­ern jew­el­ers increase rings in sev­er­al ways:

• inser­tion method — sol­der­ing a small piece of gold or sil­ver of sim­i­lar qual­i­ty;

• using the Wrigley machine;

• by mechan­i­cal stretch­ing.

Many mas­ters con­sid­er the mechan­i­cal method (man­u­al­ly) of stretch­ing the ring using a plat­form and a work­ing cone to be more effec­tive and safer. This process is not fast, but it is accu­rate and safe for the jew­el­ry.

Before pro­cess­ing on the Wrigley machine, the jew­el­er burns the ring with a burn­er flame. When it cools down, he puts it on the stretch roller, which is called the “bolt”. Then anoth­er roller is installed on top, the shape cor­re­spond­ing to the pro­file of the prod­uct. Fur­ther, the mas­ter, rotat­ing the han­dle of the cross­bar, moves the guide axle and the clamp­ing han­dle. With his free hand, he press­es the roller to the ring, achiev­ing its full plant­i­ng on the cross­bar. When the ring becomes the right size, the mas­ter wash­es it, equal­izes at the end, grinds and pol­ish­es.

Enlarg­ing a ring by insert­ing a pre­cious met­al is a more com­plex and painstak­ing job. This is the best solu­tion for jew­el­ry with carved orna­ments. The prod­uct is cut. Small pieces of met­al of the same sam­ple are super­im­posed on the joint, and then fas­tened under the flame of the burn­er. After that, the jew­el­ry is bleached, dried and adjust­ed so that after the inser­tion of the mate­r­i­al, no pro­tru­sions and depres­sions remain on the seams.

In any case, before stretch­ing a sil­ver or gold ring, you should care­ful­ly mea­sure the size of your fin­ger. To do this, jew­el­ry work­shops have both tem­plates and spe­cial devices, such as a fin­ger gauge. He accu­rate­ly deter­mines the size of the fin­ger, and the mas­ter deter­mines whether it is pos­si­ble to stretch a gold ring or a sil­ver one. For del­i­cate dec­o­ra­tion, the best method of resiz­ing is mechan­i­cal stretch­ing.

In a thick and wide bezel that is dif­fi­cult to stretch, it makes sense to sim­ply insert a piece of met­al.

Stretch­ing a smooth ring takes up to 20–30 min­utes, jew­el­ry with a pat­tern or with a pre­cious stone — up to 1 hour. After all, the mas­ter first removes the stone from the mount. After car­ry­ing out cer­tain pro­ce­dures with the met­al to change the size, he inserts the stone back and secure­ly fix­es it on the sur­face of the prod­uct. The price of such a cor­rec­tion is high­er. The final amount depends on how many sizes it is nec­es­sary and pos­si­ble to increase the ring. The cheap­est thing is stretch­ing half a size. The max­i­mum pos­si­ble increase is 1–1.5 sizes.

The pro­ce­dure for reduc­ing the prod­uct takes much longer. Indeed, with an increase in size, the ring is processed from the inside, and with its decrease, the jew­el­er has to pol­ish the out­er sur­face.

Now you know how to enlarge a sil­ver ring at home, as well as how pro­fes­sion­al jew­el­ers adjust the size of gold or sil­ver jew­el­ry. Whether it is worth doing this at home or entrust­ing the cor­rec­tion of the size of the jew­el­ry to a pro­fes­sion­al is up to you.

If your ring design is beyond repair, don’t be dis­cour­aged. The cat­a­log of the Sil­vers online store presents a large assort­ment of jew­el­ry, from which it is easy to find a new favorite or a suit­able option for a gift. Includ­ing we have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to pur­chase a ring at an afford­able price

Each prod­uct card con­tains the exact dimen­sions:

• inner diam­e­ter of the rim;

• fin­ger cir­cum­fer­ence;

• ring size.

Take your time — take accu­rate mea­sure­ments of the fin­ger itself and / or oth­er jew­el­ry. Then you will accu­rate­ly deter­mine the size of the prod­uct — and the pur­chase on the Inter­net will be suc­cess­ful even with­out pri­or fit­ting!