To be really peeved with local jewellers?

Have you any other silver jewellery you could ‘sacrifice’, so that some really good silversmith might recreate your fragile ring with a stouter band using the blended silver?

When my mother died in England, what little jewellery she had (including her ‘post-War scarcity’ wedding ring) was missing from her meagre possessions in her care home, but she still had a silver BVM pendant bought yonks ago at Lourdes. I just craved some small, wearable memento to bring back with me to Ireland, along with her ashes.
A Miraculous Medal was not my scene in terms of jewellery, but at the time, I had lying around a very small circular pendant meaningful to me, but I rarely wore it, not really loving necklaces, and I had a brainwave.
Bung it all in together and make a new silver ring using my circular pendant as the ring’s feature (not sure what to call it: the part played by a gemstone etc!) and Mum’s melted down medal to make a silver band onto which it’d be soldered.
It worked like a dream, and the ring gives me very great pleasure still. Pretty inexpensive too, and the young jeweller told me he enjoyed the challenge.

(Only a silversmith/independent jeweller would undertake this I think, certainly not Ratner’s or H Samuel et al.)

OP, I've read more of your posts. Given your emotional attachment to this ring, if I were you I would just keep it in a ring box at home and use it as a kind of talisman to hold sometimes. And you would know it's there, sending you comforting vibes. It's very, very important to you, and imagine how you'd feel if you lost it.

That remind me of when I had a ring that I loved made larger and the jeweller stretched it. It looked terrible. I took it somewhere else and had a piece inserted into the shank. Now it looks like it always did - has a proper thick shank, instead of the thin, stretched-out mess I got the first time.

OP, it sounds as if you need to have a piece inserted into the shank. PLEASE don't go back to this jeweller. They're talking rubbish about the heat. Take it somewhere else, even if you have to travel.

And I've just seen your photo.

If I was doing this repair (and with it's history off failing) I would probably just replace the shank completely

Silver doesn't laser well. A traditional solder repair might be better.

You've given them the chance to repair it and they've failed. Now get it done elsewhere and claim against them for the cost. There is plenty on the net about botched jewellery repairs and your rights.

Try and find a jeweller with a bench jeweller onsite. There are still some around. Don't be taken in by "we use a "Hatton Garden" jeweller", there are some really shoddy repairers working there.

Oh, how lovely! My husband and I are huge fans, we quote OFAH all the time - your dad must have had a smashing sense of humour!

Is it worth pointing out to the next jeweller that you do fiddle with it a lot and so it needs a really strong fix? I hope you get it sorted.

For everyone saying don't take it back to the same place, you do realise that there are very few people doing jewelry repairs etc., so many shops will use the same people to do it, most won't be doing it "in house" themselves. So even if you take it to a different jewellers the chances are that they'll send it to the same people to repair it!!

I'd demand a refund for their botch up and go elsewhere.

You need to go to another jewellers. My engagement ring was too big so was cut and resoldered to be resized and hasn’t broken after 4 years!

It's a lovely ring Op, sure you can get it sorted.

I think it was the right thing to do - having a ring you can't take on and off is a danger. If you had an accident or injury it would have to be cut off in haste and might be irrevocably damaged or even lost if you'd been in a serious accident and everything was chaotic. Plus, you can't remove it if you're doing something that might damage the stone, e.g. cleaning - glass stones are prone to chipping, breaking and scratching.

The stone in a ring with a plain shank like yours is the continuity part, not the shank - how many famous diamonds have been reset again and again throughout history? It can be set in a new shank if needed. A ring with a plain shank isn't like Trigger's broom that had 17 new heads and 14 new handles, you have the stone, the essence of the ring, reset if needed.

Thanks for the photo. The problem with silver is that in order to solder it it needs to be fairly consistently hot all over (gold can be soldered by getting it hot just near the solder). This is to do with the conductivity of the metal.
The stone is your ring cannot tolerate any heat at all or it will break.
Your best bet is to find a jeweller with a laser welder, because that will not affect the stone.
Alternatively, a jeweller can take out the stone to do the repair and then reset it.
I cannot stress enough to you that your ring is not very strong, a silver setting like that is not designed to last a lifetime. I would find a jeweller that you trust and take it in annually for a service. They can clean it and check it over for any repairs that need doing before you lose the gemstone.

Are you anywhere near Birmingham? There are a good few jewellers with workshops on site in the famous jewellery quarter. They offer free advice about repairs and remodelling.

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has the silver worn very thin? sometimes the shank of a ring can be so thin that it snaps very easily- especially in silver.
Does it have any gemstones? Would you consider posting a photo? I might be able to advise you. If not, maybe describe the design.

Can you fill the gap where it’s broken with gold? Will it look good?

I hope you can get a good repair. That jeweller being surprised that silver doesn't behave like gold doesn't sound very experienced so surely there will be someone better out there. I know nothing about it, but I'd guess there would be some way of adding a little bit of extra silver to the inside of the ring to make it stronger. Good luck.

If sold you a TV that didn't work what would you do...jewellery alterations happen every day. They add precious metal and stretch things out, its happened for thousands of years

Would you consider having it repaired one last time (by a different jeweller preferably) and made into a pendant you could wear every day on a simple chain? Perhaps they could make the break point stronger at the same time as attaching a loop for the chain to go to, IYSWIM. Then you wouldn't have to stress it by pushing it on and off your finger every day.