# Jewelry - ring sizing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-ring-sizing/782973>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 25, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-ring-sizing/782973 "2017-03-25T01:15:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-ring-sizing/782973/1 "2017-03-25T01:15:16Z")

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We have a ring we’re giving to my mother-in-law. It’s a size too big, and I seem to remember my grandmother had a . . . like a bar, sort of, on the underside of the back of a ring she owned, to make it fit, as opposed to tradition resizing.

Is that a thing? How does it stay on? Is this a DIY or a jeweler thing?

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-ring-sizing/782973/2 "2017-03-25T02:58:59Z")

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Jeweler thing. $5-10.

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**Author:** ![McGuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@McGuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McGuffy)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewelry-ring-sizing/782973/3 "2017-03-25T03:49:16Z")

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Ring adjuster.  
Different kinds [Google](https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=ring+adjuster&*&spf=377)