I am totally WIGGED OUT! Hahahhaha! Thanks…I could have used this a couple months ago. I was given a ring to resize…I used a rawhide mallet and tapped it on my ring mandrel… It promptly split at the solder seam. So, I told the lady I'd fix it. It had a SHELL for a setting. I put it in sand with water and put heat guard on it. Well, didn't work. The shell cracked all over. I finally found a similar shell in a russia! It came, I fixed the ring, shaped the shell and set it. What a hassle! I learned my lesson about sizing a ring with any stone in it… Oh…it was a ring she'd bought back in the 40s from an American Indian. It had wonderful stamping and shape to it. He was obviously a pro…I AM NOT A PRO! I am so very pleased that she accepted the ring and has been wearing it ever since! Of course…I did not charge her for my blunder… So, again, thank you for your tips and for sharing your knowledge… I'll know better in future! >^..^< Meow Cow

I used to make stained glass and learned very quickly I did not want to do repairs. I think that for most people your advice is dead on. :)

Thats why ,I bought a ring stercher and reducer PEPE tools ! thank you !

I've been binge watching you yesterday and today. The quality of this video was FANTASTIC, the best yet! You are a font of information and I love watching and learning from you. Your wackness always makes me smile (or laugh right out loud)!

I believe Rio Grande's Stone Set Ring Sizer would be a good option for resizing rings as well. Love all of your videos. Very helpful. Thank you!

I would hate to be in a situation where a family heir loom gets damaged. No no no. Thanks for all the useful tips and fun Nancy. All the best.

Hi nancy here in England, very new to jewellery making literally about 9 days!! Making a basket setting today and loosing my mind a little couldn't get its soldered onto ring shank, I had help from my auntie who is also coming along for the journey, we are having our moments to say the least!! But reading your website earlier your words really helped, we are new and will literally produce a less than perfect object but hey we need to keep going, just hearing that we've all been there helps!! so thank you for your words of inspiration. I hope and desperately need any video on measuring and making a basket setting I was making a single basket today 4 prongs it's a heavy ring, keep up the good work power to all the newbies and praise for all the videos you do 👍🏻😊

This was a fantastic video and oh-so helpful to me. And perfect timing. I have a SS ring without a stone that I need to cut to enlarge it and you reaffirmed what I had guessed at. And showed exactly how to do it. THANKS SO MUCH. And I love your wig. I wore hair extensions for a couple years because I have the thinnest hair ever. Loved them but they really tore up what little hair I had so now I just have long and VERY fine thin hair. But I loved your wig and am jealous. It looks great. Keep making these great videos. You so rock and are totally groovy my friend.

Thank you for being my main source of learning. Appreciate these uploads.

Oh la la you and your wig and your videos are so so great!! I'm addicted! Thank you so much from France🥖

Thank you this was very informative, im hoping the same technique will work on 14k

Awesome sound and quality of video. Great information. You look marvelous with short hair and bangs so tres stylish. Love it, love watching you teachand having fun doing it. Keep up the great work :)

Thank you.. you're brilliant.. x

Gabi misses you and our footage! Darling Gwedolyn, you are beautiful!

so awesome 😎 love your channel. so much great info and so fun. thank you Nancy, such a great wealth of info! a friend asked me to resize her silver ring (down) which I SO don’t want to do. no laser welder in my shop like a jeweler might have. I’m debating whether to pop out the stone and work it with my acetylene air torch. talk me off the ledge. lol. oh wait, you tried to already. 😊 p.s. great 👍 wig!

I was expecting to see anything but a cat holding witch in the video intro 😄

food grade sillicon, great idea!

very crazy and i relly relly love you i'm from Egypt by the way

One of the most useful videos! Thank you! BTW - I've heard that you can protect the stone from heat by sticking into a potato :D :D :D

love ur vids they are great and you crack me up lmao crap about ur camera and the lost the memories hopefully you will be able to make new ones.

A lot of people were showing how to down size and I need to see how to up size or however you say it. So Thank you for showing how to do that. BTW that's a good idea in the vice with the 2 brass pieces bent so it wont go down as your hitting it. Did you come up with that idea ?

I love the wig! You do look amazing!

Wow! Love the hair, new intro ( you are one crazy lady!), and this info. I am right in the middle of making a spinner ring that somehow I ended up with the base not coming out big enough! Those wider bands always seem to get me! I tried looking up the Resizer you said came from Harbor Freight and can't find it. Did it have some unusual name? Also, I did find it on Rio Grande but it only resizes rings from 7 1/2 up. The ring I have is about a 5 1/2. Does the Resizer from Harbor Freight start at least around a 5? Thanks again for all your videos!!

Love your videos Nancy - bummer about the camera :(

Can you tell me where I can get a ring enlarger w/stone that can go up 3 sizes or at least 2 sizes without breaking my wallet ? Thank you

There is no way you are going to shrink a ring by pounding on it on a mandrel with a metal hammer.

26 mins on how to resize a ring? bye.

That intro is completely unnecessary.