Ring sizing tool

Part of the Video Series How to Make Your Own Jewelry

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Learn what a ring sizing tool looks like and how to use it.

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Ring sizing tool
Now if you decide to try and form some rings or make some wax models of rings a good thing to have is a mandrel, a ring mandrel. This is a heavy steel ring mandrel, it’s got the sizes from one to sixteen. It can make any size ring according to whatever you need. That’s also how jewelers will reshape and reshank rings if they get knocked out of whack or misshapen through wear. You will hammer it out on a mandrel with a rawhide mallet so as to not mar it up. To find your ring size if you decide to get into rings or just like to know you can find these ring sizers this is for more wedding band style or thicker band and they also have the ones for smaller slimmer engagement style rings. That’s basically how you would figure out what you’re working with, what you need.

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