Melting Down Gold Wedding Rings

Hi can you take a gold wedding ring and then melt it down and then add another metal like black titanium in the middle.

Melting down gold wedding rings.

Badly worn wedding rings or heirloom rings can be re made as new. Don t ditch your wedding ring melt it down. But we can t add titanium. Wedding ring designs can be faithfully replicated even those with intricate detail such as hand engravings.

While the gold can be used over and over the other metals can cause problems such as porosity discolouration and cracks. Marc choyt on jan 08 2020 hi steve we can add some other metals such as silver platinum or a different color or karat of gold. The cost will depend on the work involved and materials. Dibben recently made recycled wedding rings for a couple from gold that had been donated by both of their families.

Pictured above the rings are placed in a crucible and heated to approximately 1100 degrees celsius at which point the gold starts to melt. Post divorce gold bands and diamonds are usually locked away in a safety deposit box or stashed in the back of a bedroom drawer to gather dust. Gold rings can be re made in 950 platinum or another choice of precious metal. We were presented with a collection of old inherited wedding rings some very worn and misshapen some that had been cut off and damaged to make four brand new rings two gents and two ladies.

The main reason why it is not recommended to melt down used gold is because the alloys in the gold do not co operate when being re cast.