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How To Resized An Engraved Platinum Wedding Band
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- čas přidán 6. 11. 2016
- This 10 minute film was taken on Andrew's Vlogging camera and is a very quick, 'spur of the moment', film.
Andrew had to make an engraved platinum wedding band smaller. He had a choice - cut and remove a piece, weld it back, engrave to match the pattern, clean and polish it OR use the wedding ring stretcher/reducer piece of equipment.
Andrew decided to reduce the ring in size but most people say that you can only reduce plain wedding bands. Andrew shows you otherwise.
He also keeps the value of the ring as no platinum has to be removed, too.
Andrew Berry, a professional jeweller for 30 years, is the training director of www.AtTheBench.com, an award winning on line jewellery training website.
Thank you Andrew. I learned about the leading line on a ring mandrel and had always thought to place the ring in the center of the size, not like that. I always find something to learn when watching your videos and they mean a lot to me. :)
Camera was fine. We could see very well the process, thank you
Hello Mr. Berry! I found this video very interesting.
I just got married and have an Art Deco engraved platinum wedding band, not unlike the one shown in this video, only narrower (about 2mm). Do you think a good jeweler can use a stretching machine like you did at the end in order to slightly enlarge my ring without distorting the pattern? It is currently a size 4.5 US and I need a 4.75 / 5 US. Thank you!
Thanks for this video! It really helps me understand the process.
Would stretching a hammered band cause the hammered pattern to be less... hammered? Like would the process of stretching the band cause the design to flatten out a bit?
Hello Andrew! Can you take a carved gold wedding band [much like the platinum band you show here] and widen it 1/2 a size without damaging it? Have you already addressed this. Jewelers here want to sell me a new ring but I want to keep the one that I was married with on the proper finger. Thanks a lot. Bronwen
You can. Tbh, for the one time, it would be worth it to just go on Amazon and look up a ring stretcher. They have a couple different types and the one you want looks like (and sometimes called) an adjustable ring mandrel. You can get one I'm sure for 15 dollars. Now, it may be a different price now since I've bought mine quite a while ago. And as long as you're going just a half size up, and if the pattern is on the outside, it should work. Mine works great and I've even successfully sized up a ring with a stone a 1/2 size. I hope you are able to get what you're wanting. And hope I've been at least some help.
Hi Andrew. I love your videos. How about sizing 'up' 1 size? I have a plain platinum band I need a little bigger. I can't find any info on stretching Platinum. Do I need to anneal it for 1 size bigger? I have a good stretcher and have stretched 24 k without anneal, but I don't know if PT is the same. :O
thank you for the videos. If you reduce with the machine, you must anneal first?
It makes it a bit easier but not essential
Hi Andrew good video but why not just use a paper dice to protect the ring?
I use the large post it note it saves on cleaning cloths .
Regards Paul @ Alchemist.
i find that there is not enough protection from paper and also as soon as the ring gets pushed down the paper immediately gets cut and the ring still gets marked.
very informative.. thanks. Do you know if there is a similar ring sizer that works for rings with stones (bezels, semibezel rings)? Enlarging would be easier but reducing a size seems impossible for such a ring
I don't believe there is a reduction machine available for stone set rings. Let me know if you end up finding one as I too am curious about this. It does seem a bit impossible.
@@kathryncastanares525 - Yes, there is a way to do that. It would take me much longer to explain it here than it would for you to see if Andrew has made the video yet showing the device and how it's used to enlarge a stone set ring. I know I've seen a couple of videos on here showing the device required, and how it can be done, but I don't recall for sure who did them!
@@sharid76 he was asking if there was a device that is similar to Reduce a ring with a stone set. Not enlarge. I know you can enlarge a ring with a stone set in. There a several ways and i have one of the few different types of devices that enlarges them. You can also just simply enlarge a stone set ring on a ring mandrel, hitting only the shank if you dont have access to a ring stretcher.
@@kathryncastanares525 - Very true. I apparently misinterpreted his request because of the way it was written.
use PTFE fluorocarbon tape please!
Oups! What is the difference between soldering and welding. I thought welding was used for big pieces like machinery, véhicules, bridges etc... (I welded myself in the pass so I thought soldering therm was for jewelry.
I could be wrong but I think he meant fusing maybe? That's what I took it as. Good question!
Soldering melts a filler metal to join two pieces together whereas welding melts the two pieces together using no filler material. Welding creates a much stronger bond, however the process can be lengthier and requires much more expensive equipment than soldering.