Badly Bent 10k Gold Ring

Martin_V3i

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• Sep 24, 2022

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This is a 10K ring I found a while back. How the heck do you straighten it? I bought a mandrel today and my first attempt to even start rounding it, made me give up. There isn't much value in a small 10k ring like this but I'd still like to use the new mandrel on it, or whatever you suggest. TIA

 

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stetam

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• Sep 24, 2022

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Take it to a jeweler

Steve

 

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• Sep 24, 2022

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Very Nice!!! Congrats!!! A jeweler as stetam said for sure!

 

Martin_V3i

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• Sep 25, 2022

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I appreciate the replies. It's only worth $50 in melt value and it ain't glamorous. Wouldn't a jeweler charge to do this? I am prone to try to find a method without a jeweler. It is more of a work project in my mind to learn something, now that I have bought a mandrel. Worst case, the ring will go into my gold scrap bin.

Thanks. I might ask a jeweler about it. I just doubt that with the cost of labor these days, jewelers must draw the line for doing courteous work.

 

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• Sep 25, 2022

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Maybe warm it up with a propane or mapp torch then carefully use the mandrel? I’ve not tried to straighten a gold ring that way, but did try to resolder one by just applying the torch heat to a 14k ring that was made up of three rings soldered together, it didn’t work, but didn’t harm the good at all. Scraped that ring.

 

Martin_V3i

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GroundSweeper said:

Maybe warm it up with a propane or mapp torch then carefully use the mandrel? I’ve not tried to straighten a gold ring that way, but did try to resolder one by just applying the torch heat to a 14k ring that was made up of three rings soldered together, it didn’t work, but didn’t harm the good at all. Scraped that ring.

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Thanks.

 

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• Sep 26, 2022

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heat up gold to anneal it, then work on a mandrel, you may need to anneal 2-3 times in between working it to really get it in fine shape. A small hard leather mallet works wonders with out banging it up.