That’s where the jeweler comes into play. Ring sizers are only meant as an aid to help you determine the right size. Go to Beadaholique.Plus, what ring sizers tell you, may not mean squat… And it should fit exactly to your finger. You'll see you have a nice round shape to it. It does take some firm finger pressure there. Okay once you've fully pressed the ring all the way around the mandrel and you have it molded. So I'm going to do that like so and I'm going to use the pressure of my fingers and bend. Now if you're wire wrapping you would just take your wire and because this is going to be a little bit wider of a ring I want to line up at the midpoint at the filigree with the midpoint of my six and a half mark. What you what to do you want to take your filigree. So I'm going to go down a half a size to six and a half and that feels about right. It's actually pretty good, it's a little bit loose. So first I need to determine what size that finger is. I think I will choose this finger right here. So I'm probably not going to wear this particular ring on my engagement ring finger. So I'm going to show you how you might be able to make to a filigree ring using the ring sizing tool and the ring mandrel. But for a lot of projects that you'll make you'll just need the plastic mandrel. Anything that exerts a lot of pressure and you're going to want to switched over to the steel mandrel. You want to purchase one of these when you start getting into metalwork. Anything where you are just using the pressure of your fingers to make a ring. It's perfect for wire wrapping and wrapping filigree around it. So you use the tools in conjunction with each other. So if you are size eleven ring and that's what you're going to want to do.
I can take any ring on my ring sizer and this one happens to be an eleven slide it down and it's going to fit perfectly on the eleven mark. So if you look at the ring mandrel you'll see it also has numbers along the edge of it and it numbers from one to fifteen and these numbers are going to correspond with the numbers on the ring sizer.
So once we know the size of your ring you can go ahead and use the a ring mandrel to make a ring from scratch. The average person again is going to be more like a six to seven. So I'm right in between a four and a four and a half. It still has room to move but it is really going to have troubles going over my knuckle. You can tell that it's not cutting off any circulation. If I had a ring such as an engagement ring or something I might want it a little bit tighter just because I wanna make sure it doesn't fall off so there's a four and that is just about perfect. Then I'm gonna go down a half the size to four and a half. I going to start with a five it fits and it's actually feels a little bit loose. The average person's ring finger is about a size six to a seven. So what you're going to want to do to a get properly sized ring is you are gonna wanna find the circle which fits your finger best.
The one has a little one next to it and one and a half has a one dash next to it. They actually come from one at the very smallest all the way up to thirteen and there's going to be half sizes as well. You'll notice on the ring sizing tool there are numbers along the edge of each circle and these are the numbers of the ring. A ring sizer is going to measure the size of your finger. These two particular items are available on the 's website as a kit for your convenience.
Today I want to show you how to use a ring sizer and a ring mandrel. Note: This audio transcript is auto-generated and may not be completely accurate.