Different Mandrels for Jewelry Resizing & Repair

Video Transcript

"Hello, on behalf of Expert Village, my name is Joe. I own The Vug local jewelry store in Salt Lake City and I'm a bench jeweler. These are two basic mandrels. This is a bracelet mandrel and a ring mandrel. Obviously used for sizing or shaping. A mandrel can be used and is used when sizing. This mandrel has sizes, ring sizes on it. So, if I was sizing it up from a six, this is showing a six to a nine. I would have to go three sizes up. Which this mandrel has the marks of a size that I would add or cut out of the back to take it down if I was doing that. Great mandrel, made of steel. You can beat on this and really shape the metal nice. A bracelet mandrels pretty basic. You can do real basic, cuff bracelets. You can also hammer on this. It does different sizes, the biggest being the size of my wrist or a mans bracelet. The middle is probably more of a woman?s bracelet. Two great tools to have. The ring mandrel also sometimes comes with a grove in it, in case there's a stone sticking through the back of the ring. It can go in the groove without damaging the stone. You can still work on the back of the ring."