Cost to retip prongs?

[kgizo]

I think someone posted on here recently about having prongs fixed on an antique ring. If the poster reads this could you please share the approximate repair cost? Thanks.

 

[JPie]

I live in a high cost of living area and it cost me $200 to get the prongs retipped on an antique bracelet. I don’t remember how many prongs that included, but I’d guess 2.

 

[kgizo]

I live in a high cost of living area and it cost me $200 to get the prongs retipped on an antique bracelet. I don’t remember how many prongs that included, but I’d guess 2.

Thanks Jpie, this is really helpful.

 

[kgizo]

I live in a high cost of living area and it cost me $200 to get the prongs retipped on an antique bracelet. I don’t remember how many prongs that included, but I’d guess 2.

I got the exact same quote. I would’ve guessed that was too much (I’m old and out of touch ) so thanks again for sharing your info as it saved me time and a headache.

 

[JPie]

I got the exact same quote. I would’ve guessed that was too much (I’m old and out of touch ) so thanks again for sharing your info as it saved me time and a headache.

I thought I was paying too much too! I chalked it up to everything in my area being expensive compared to the national average.

 

[Smith3]

I needed the bezel of my antique ring redone since some of it was missing, it’s probably 110 years old and very loved I paid with tax $580 for them to build it up in platinum. i’ve loved how it looked. It looked like it was just floating in the ring but it was a hazard for the diamond.

 

[monarch64]

I just paid $97 to have an “overhaul” on a NEW ring with 4 prongs holding the centerstone. I was shocked at the diagnosis and asked them to show me which prong was the culprit (could hear the stone shaking in the setting when I shook the ring) and they couldn’t. There was back and forth between my sales associate and the bench. He said he had to rework the whole head, not just one prong, wouldn’t come out and show me. It wasn’t so much the cost as the fact that they were so resistant about showing me the damage or whatever needed to be worked on that was causing the stone to move. Of course I had louped it myself and tried to discern where the problem was, but the bench insisted it wasn’t just “one prong.” Ridiculous, but I’m in a rather isolated area and don’t have many choices.

I did ask if they used Geller’s Blue Book and my SA said yes. (That’s a pricing guide a lot of indie jewelers use, and I knew of it because I used to work for one just outside Chicago.)