Ring sizing

Jewelry Discussion
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    If I can, I always try to do the stretch to size up,
especially when there are stones already set and I don't feel
like pulling them.

Hello Glen:

I often size rings, with heat sensitive stones, up and
down.Simply buy clamping in my third arm and submersing the ring
half in a crucible filled with water.You must use a much hotter
flame,but it beats removing stones.

Michael Mathews Victoria,Texas USA

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Dear Sirs.

I would very much like to get the following

We are a on line mail order catalog and we ship to the usa, western
europe, Australia , Japan etc. We got a request as to how do you
compare ring sizings in England and they use letters eg, i j k and
In canada we use eg. 7, 71/2 , 8 etc, The question asked mw was
what letter corresponds to what number ring size? I would really
like to get this

Thank you in advance.

Finn Mollerup
Sales manager@Gay-MART

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Finn, The info you require as well as a great deal of other useful
stuff is in a book called “Jeweler’s Resource” by Bruce G. Knuth. . .
.published by Jewelers Press. It gives ring size equivalents for
North America, Japan, France, Germany, Britain etc. I’m assuming you
could buy it online…say at Amazon.
Steve Workman

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Regarding the comparative sizes of rings in different countries,
there is a very clear graphic illustration of several different ring
mandrels in my book, Ring Repair. You can see that illustration by
going to

http://www.revereacademy.com/BooksandVideos/Prof%20Ring%20Repair/ringrepairdes

cription.html and then clicking on International Ring Sizes.

Hope this helps.

Alan

Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts
760 Market Street - Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94102
tel: 415-391-4179 fax: 415-391-7570
web: http://www.revereacademy.com
email: alan@revereacademy.com