Hey everyone,
I am saving to get an engagement ring to propose to my girlfriend. The one issue I am running into is the price of rings - to get something even remotely nice i'm looking at more than $4,000.
I recently inherited an old engagement ring from a great aunt whom I never met. I have no emotional attachment to the ring since i never met her. I would be willing to re-use the ring, however the ring is gold, and my girlfriend dislikes gold - her preference is white gold, or platinum. It does have a brilliant stone which I would love to re-use, so after talking to a few jewelers the feedback I've gotten was that "there are jewelers who will remove the stone from the setting, take the metal as scrap, and then let you refit the stone into a setting you like." The issue is - I haven't been able to find anyone who is willing to do it. Has anyone else been in this sort of a situation? Any suggestions would really be appreciated. Thank you!
-M
Re: Redoing an old engagement ring
If you want to reset the stone, you need to find a jeweler and designer, like Magdala9 said above. Your best bet would probably be local jewelers, not chain stores.
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I had taken mine to chain stores, and they all wanted to take my ring for a small value and try to sell me a new much more expensive and lower quality ring. DO NOT BUY INTO THIS. Just like everything else it seems in this world, they dont make diamonds like they used to. I would have ended up with a smaller, darker, less quality cut stone and lost all of the sentimential value and paid a ton for it. I love my ring now. Small locla jewlers are your best bet.