Tension Mounted Ring Sizing

[holdendog]

I have decided on a date to propose to my girlfriend and am very excited. I have done my research on diamonds and will start shopping for one in the next week or two. Now it comes to the ring. I really want to get her a tension mounted ring, but my friend told me they have to size her. My girlfriend doesn''t want to be involved in choosing the ring or any of the process and wants to be suprised (the proposal will be a big suprise, very romantic - a dolphin is going to help me give her the proposal). I know her ring size and would like to design it based on that, will that work or do I have to take her in to get her measured?

 

[diamond dazed]

I think you will find that the place you buy from will want to size her themselves. Tension mountings can not be resized, so if they send in an incorrect measurement, they are responsible for the replacement ring (at least that was true at the place I bought from).

I just got a tension setting, and I insisted on going down about 1/4 size than I usually wear (they thought it should be 7 3/4, I insisted on 7 1/2), and even still it is a little roomy -- I think having that open space gives a little more room -- so if she's between sizes, go smaller.

Although the biggest part of my finger is my knuckle, so maybe that space helps getting it over that. It might be different with someone with more uniformly sized fingers.....

If you don't want to ruin the surprise by having her sized before the proposal, you could always have it mounted in a $90 "throw-away" setting for the proposal and take her in after the fact.

Just some thoughts....

Kris

 

[boonerings]

I agree with Diamond Dazed. Ring sizing is nowhere near as much of a science as it should be. I run into this all the time. I am given a size to make, and I nail it to within a thousandth of an inch of theoretical, and their size is wrong. Tension sets are much more difficult to size than other rings, so they just want to save everyone a little grief by ensuring they are all talking the same language with the sizing. Things like width and internal curvature affect the feel of a ring on a finger, and the tapered rod method of ring measurement adds a huge variable into the mix. The rods are not usually that accurate to begin with, don't take the width and radius factors into consideration, and depend on the interpretation of the user for sizing. It is not uncommon to be a half size off of the theoretical ID measurement that the "standards" are based on. The standard sizing charts aren't that standard either!