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The last thing you want to do when setting gemstones is slip and chip or mark the stone that you are setting.

Andrew Berry shows you a tool modification that allows the pliers to remain firmly on the claw allowing you complete confidence and control when pulling a claw over onto the gemstone.

Most text books state that you can not use the upright wedding ring stretcher/reducer to reduce a patterned wedding ring.

Andrew Berry shows you, quite simply, how to reduce a patterned wedding ring. By using a thick piece of fabric, a Selvet cloth in this case, there will be no marks on the surface. A quick going over with a rouge mop over the outside of the ring is all that is needed.

A client brought this ring into us after having it cut off with a pair of tin snips.

Often, rings are removed from clients fingers in an emergency with out a care to the ring. This is usually the case if the client does not have time to have it removed by a jeweller. Here, Andrew, assesses what is left of a ring that a client has brought into his shop. With a little thought and care, the rings ends up as new and the client is delighted.

Fingers are strange things and can prove difficult when to comes to making rings fit.

The rings have to be a certain size to fit over the knuckle but then can be so loose on the finger that it just spins around. Andrew shows you a little addition you can add to the inside of the ring shank to take up the slack.

Using a gem ring stretching machine makes it staight forward to stretch rings that are set with diamonds and gemstons.

Care must be taken when using the gem ring stretcher to ensure you don not ‘roll’ that shank of the ring too thin. In this video Andrew shows you how to successfuly use the gem ring stretcher on a clients engagement ring.

Using an upright ring stretcher and reducer, Andrew Berry shows you how to resize and retexture a wedding ringbr.

The ability to reduce a wedding band in size greatly improves a workshops profitability as reducing takes a shorter amount of time than cutting a piece out of a wedding ring. The majority of times only plain rings are reduced but in this video, Andrew shows you how to reapply the original texture on a wedding ring that he has just reduced.

Andrew Berry shows you, in this short tutorial, how to join a wedding ring and engagement ring together.

It is an ideal way to keep the two rings ‘locked’ together. Although this alteration looks permanent, the two rings can be easily seperated if the client desires.