[Jewelry making - Article 00323] - Re: [Orchid] Popular ring sizes

[Janet Kofoed]

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    Rings are a large portion of my sales, and it's almost funny how
    often the people with big fingers like the small rings and vice
    versa. I make rings from size 4 to 14, and it's still guesswork as
    to what size I should make a given new design. 

    I bought a ring stretcher for stone set rings, which clamps the ring
    and rocks the shank back and forth to stretch it without harming the
    setting, so I can easily enlarge the ring to the customer's size at
    a show. This only works for rings with a plain shank. Rings where
    the design goes all the way around can't be enlarged by this method.
    Still, it helps a lot. So for these I tend to start smaller, about a
    5 or 6 for women's rings. But there are a lot of women out there who
    wear a 4, and they have a difficult time finding rings, especially
    pinky rings which for them would be about a 3. 

    It's fortunate for us that people wear rings on all fingers these
    days- makes our job somewhat easier. 

Janet Kofoed


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