In most cases, the ring hasn't changed. Your finger has.

Weight fluctuations, pregnancy, age, and even seasonality can have affects on your finger’s size.

Even weekly fluctuations are common; hands swell in summer heat and shrink on a cold morning, so a ring can feel snug one week and loose the next.

If your ring spins, catches on the knuckle, or needs soap to come off, it's probably time for a resize.

While most rings can be resized, not every ring can be resized.

The possibility depends on the ring’s design and material.

For simple designs where the band is plain, resizing is simple. A cut in the shank is made, and either material is added or removed depending on sizing up or down.

For designs that are a little bit more elaborate, like where gemstones are embedded within the band itself (like in eternity rings), the work can be extremely tedious, let alone possible altogether.

With regard to materials, typical metals used in fine jewellery, like gold, platinum, and silver, can easily be worked with in resizing.

It’s with specific materials like tungsten and titanium where resizing isn’t possible, since these metals are incredibly difficult to cut and rejoin.

One to two sizes in either direction is the comfortable range for most rings. Going past that puts stress on the setting and can loosen stones, so we'd rather tell you when a ring has reached its limit.

In some cases, sizing can go further depending on the particular ring

The procedure for resizing a ring depends on whether it's being sized up or down. Both scenarios begin with making a cut within the ring’s band.

Sizing Up
A piece of matching metal is added to the band, soldered in, then shaped and polished until the join disappears.

Sizing Down
A small section of the band is removed, the ends are joined, and the ring is rounded and polished back to its original shape.

In most cases, your ring will look the same as it did prior to being resized.

On a few alloys, a faint line at the incision point where the resizing was made can show up under close inspection.

Most resizing jobs can be done within about two weeks or less.

The cost depends on the metal, how far the sizing is going, and whether any stones need tightening along the way. It’s for these reasons that we can’t give a quote first without seeing the ring.