Ughhh.. how would you handle this situation?

[totheleft]

Hi totheleft,
I have experience working with Platinum, but have never worked with the 585 alloy so I held off with any advice.

What I can tell you is I called a Platinum expert who had given a lecture at an AGS conclave a couple years ago about using a laser welder with Platinum.

He told me that there are 2 alloys with 585 Platinum...one using copper and one using base metal (Zinc?).

The trick on sizing your ring is to use a laser welder with the same alloy as your ring. I am assuming that you had the ring sized down, so you would have (or hopefully be able to get back) the piece that was cut out to size the band. This would allow the shop with the laser to weld the same metal as the ring....so no seam would show.

Since I have never come across this alloy I quizzed him pretty hard about any Goblins (brittleness, flaking, color change) that come from working this alloy and he told me it is pretty straighforward...

Hope this helps and good luck!

Jim - THANK YOU SO MUCH for this information! I can't believe you took the time to find this out for me. YAY! Unfortunately we don't have the metal he took out of the wedding ring, but maybe we can find a jeweler who's familiar with the alloy.. or just deal with it. We found out today who the company was who originally manufactured the ring for Christian Bernard (Wright & Lato is what my actual jeweler told me today based on an imprint in the ring).. I might contact them.

THANK YOU for this information. it will be VERY helpful if we need work done on the ring in the future.

 

[ruby59]

http://www.wrightandlato.com/about.php

It looks like Wright and Lato was bought out by Novell. In the last paragraph they address the 585 platinum that W&L used.

 

[totheleft]

http://www.wrightandlato.com/about.php

It looks like Wright and Lato was bought out by Novell. In the last paragraph they address the 585 platinum that W&L used.

I JUST came here to post that. I just went to their website and discovered that. Damn. I guess they won't be fixing my ring for me