# This Diamond Ring **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 25, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-diamond-ring/651360 "2013-02-25T17:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-diamond-ring/651360/21 "2013-02-28T16:01:58Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > Have you considered having it redesigned in some way? Since the resale value is going to suck no matter what, and you probably don’t want to keep the ring as-is given its history, this might be a good third option. You could take it to a jeweler who can use the diamonds and gold to make a new ring, ear rings, necklace, etc. That won’t be cheap either, but it’s better than losing $2,000 now and putting another $3,600 down for the next attempt at matrimony. > > Our family did something like this with an inherited ring from a grandmother. Nobody wanted it as it was - she had taken some good diamonds from an old wedding ring, and added several crappy low-quality diamonds for bulk, with a result that made the whole ring look like cheap costume jewelry. We let the jeweler keep the crappy diamonds and had the higher-quality stones reset in a new design. The finished product looked ten times better, cost only a few hundred for the jeweler’s time and made an impressive graduation present for one of the grand-kids. Not a bad idea, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-diamond-ring/651360/23 "2014-08-06T11:40:47Z")
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