Cost to have an eternity shaved down/resized?

[Circe]

Hi, guys - I ordered a lovely band off eBay that showed up about a quarter size smaller than advertised. Sadness! (And no hard feelings against anybody other than whomever it is in the industry who dropped the ball on standardizing mandrels.) The vendor's being great on either accepting a return, or he says I can send it back and his bench will shave it down, or, I can send him a local quote and he'll paypal me a refund for the cost to have it done here, if it's reasonable.

What's reasonable???

Normally I'd shop around and see what a few places could offer, but this week is insane and I don't know if the one place I'm planning on ducking into is going to be sane or not ... they do good work, but they charged less than I'd think for one ring and asked more than I'd thought to fix another. So ... comps? Has anybody out there had a platinum eternity shaved down by a quarter size, and, if so, what did it run you?

 

[Circe]

According to my local guy ... $95, if anybody's curious. Guess we'll see if that's industry standard!

 

[Andelain]

Any concerns about it being to thin afterward?

 

[Circe]

He said if he made it comfort fit, it'd be a tight squeeze over the knuckle, but comfortable on. We will see!

 

[Harpertoo]

He said if he made it comfort fit, it'd be a tight squeeze over the knuckle, but comfortable on. We will see!

don't mean to threadjack.....
but what is 'comfort fit'?
(I'm always on the fence about buying vintage eternity bands .25 - .75 under my preferred size. maybe I should expand my range?)

 

[Rhea]

He said if he made it comfort fit, it'd be a tight squeeze over the knuckle, but comfortable on. We will see!

don't mean to threadjack.....
but what is 'comfort fit'?
(I'm always on the fence about buying vintage eternity bands .25 - .75 under my preferred size. maybe I should expand my range?)

I think it's a bit of a tricky one. I recently found an eternity on ebay that I just had to have. I got it and it was the wrong size by about .75 sizes, seller's fault I took it to a handful of jewellers and none recommended having it shaved down because of how low down the stones were. If they could have made it just .25 of a size bigger I would have kept it.

 

[Harpertoo]

He said if he made it comfort fit, it'd be a tight squeeze over the knuckle, but comfortable on. We will see!

don't mean to threadjack.....
but what is 'comfort fit'?
(I'm always on the fence about buying vintage eternity bands .25 - .75 under my preferred size. maybe I should expand my range?)

I think it's a bit of a tricky one. I recently found an eternity on ebay that I just had to have. I got it and it was the wrong size by about .75 sizes, seller's fault I took it to a handful of jewellers and none recommended having it shaved down because of how low down the stones were. If they could have made it just .25 of a size bigger I would have kept it.

Maybe that helps to account for the constant re circulation of eternity bands!
It definitely seems there's some variation in sizing mandrels

 

[joolsiepetunia]

My jeweler said about $50 to shave down. I did have an eternity band recently re-casted and it was a few hundred to do that one It's must more low profile, comfy and pleasing to the eye too

 

[motownmama]

I had 2 eternities that were a little tight. My jeweler said if there's enough metal he could polish down the insides and make them ever so slightly larger w/o jeopardising the integrity of the rings. Both are channel set btw. He did it to both and changed me $0.00
Maybe your task is more complex, I don't know. Good luck.