Most jewelry bought today is usually made up of gold or platinum for the one desired property that they are known to be durable metals that can withstand the wear and tear of time.  With Sterling Silver you are getting a beautiful piece and still has properties that will make it last a long time, Sterling Silver metal is relatively soft and delicate compared to other metals such as gold and platinum.  The property of silver is what gives its property for being a soft metal.  Jewelers actually add a more durable metal to the silver to make it a better metal to use for jewelry making. When purchasing Sterling Silver you will notice in descriptions and even stamped on products .925 , 925 SS, or SS, all these designations tell you that this is a true Sterling Silver jewelry.  Sterling Silver is a soft metal, resizing sterling silver can be met with some problems.  Things like a rings style and its previous history of resizing, a qualified jeweler may be able to resize the ring for you.

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If you are looking to resize a simple sterling silver band that only needs to go up a or down 1 size, jewelers can attempt to do the resize for you.  Sterling silver can only be resized once, so if you inherited a piece of jewelry that has already been resized, more than likely the jeweler will not attempt to resize the ring again.

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Also, if resizing the ring requires resizing it more than 2 sizes both ways, you will likely not want to get the item resized as resizing it will weaken the structural integrity of the metal.

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If you are looking to resize jewelry that contains stones like those birthstone jewelry can be resized one or two sizes and depending on the location of the stones.  If the jewelry piece has decorative patterns on the band itself, the sterling silver band cannot be resized.