Making new jewellery with rings

[bigsoftcocks]

I no longer wear my rings because I’m divorced They’re nothing massively special but across three rings I have some nice diamonds and sapphires and they’re just wasted as I can’t wear them, obviously
I’d really like to get them re made into two pieces of jewellery for my daughters, to have in the future.

Has anyone done this and is it hideously expensive?

I did something similar with inherited rings. Local independent silversmith valued all of the stones and gold separately, we agreed that I would have 4 sets of diamond earrings made and that he would take the surplus stones as payment. So while it doesn't actually answer your question perhaps something to consider.

I have - not divorced, but inherited some old pieces that I would never wear. They were Soviet gold, and I wanted to keep the metal that way. I found an independent jeweller in Norwich. I had more than 10g of same purity gold, so I had two heavy organic rings made and three pendants. My daughters and I have one each of the latter, and I wear the two rings, which they will receive in due course. I paid just under £800. To give you an idea, in 9ct gold I would have paid for just the two rings from that jeweller. My gold is 14ct and the cost included having it stamped. I love all the bits and the girls do too, so it was definitely worth doing. I paid for it by taking all my scraps and some inherited dental scraps to other shops, so I no longer have heap of metal lying around - bonus.

I'm currently using the stones and gold from my mum and grandmothers engagement and wedding rings to have new jewellery made.
Mums stones are going into a platinum bracelet in a bezel type/diamonds by the metre sort of setting, and the price is similar to what you'd pay for non precious stones on that bracelet.
All the rest are going into a double circle necklace which accomodates having 18ct and 22ct in the different rings. I could have offset the 22 against the cost and done something simpler, but I liked the feeling of keeping everything. It isn't horrific, but the current cost of gold did push up the price.

I would agree. Definitely try small independent shops with inhouse jeweller. I also had my rings resized, and some (IMHO basic) high street jewellers wanted £400 for resizing, while independent and another high street one were around £99-120 mark. It's worth investing the time. It's also worth looking on Etsy maybe - a lot of the time there are excellent jewellers and you can see what they make.