A ring sizer you can print
Every piece is made after you order it, and we do not take change-of-mind returns on made-to-order work, so the size is worth settling before the order rather than after.
There are two tools on the sheet below: a paper strip you wrap around the finger, and a set of circles you lay an existing ring over. Print it, check the scale against a bank card, then use whichever suits you.
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Ring sizer. Check the scale before you cut anything.
1. Check the scale
Bank cards are all made to the same international size, so any one of them works as a reference. If the card covers the dashed outline on all four sides, the sheet has printed at the right scale.
If it overhangs, or leaves a gap, print again with Scale set to 100 per cent. A page printed smaller reads too large, because the marks move closer together while your finger does not. The bar below is a second check: end to end it should measure 100 mm.
2. The paper sizer
Cut the strip out along the solid line, then cut the short slot. Wrap it around the base of your finger with the printed side facing out, thread the pointed end through the slot, and draw it snug rather than tight. Your size is the number sitting at the slot.
3. The circle chart
Lay a ring you already wear over the circles and find the one that the inside of the band just covers. The outside of the band includes the thickness of the metal, so matching to that reads a size or more too large. Use a ring worn on the same finger you are buying for.
Before you print
Your printer will shrink the page unless you tell it not to, and the error runs the wrong way. A sheet printed at 96 per cent reads nearly a full size too large, because every mark on the page has moved closer together while your finger has not.
In the print dialogue, set Scale to 100 per cent, or Default, and turn off "Fit to page" and "Shrink to fit". Use plain paper rather than photo paper. Printing from a phone is worth avoiding, since it almost always rescales. Then check the sheet against a bank card before you cut anything.
When you measure matters
Fingers change through the day and with the weather. Measure late in the day, at normal room temperature, when your hands are neither cold nor swollen. Avoid measuring straight after exercise, after a long flight, or after a salty meal.
If your knuckle is wider than the base of your finger, the ring has to pass the knuckle to get on. Size for the knuckle, then tell us when you write, because a ring sized that way can spin at the base and there are things we can do about that while it is being made.
If you land between two sizes
Tell us both numbers. Which way to go depends on the piece. A wide band takes up more of the finger and sits more snugly than a narrow one at the same nominal size, so on a broad design we would usually suggest the larger of the two.
Eternity rings are the ones to be careful with. Diamonds run the whole way around the band, so there is no plain stretch of metal to cut and rejoin, and resizing is limited or not possible at all depending on the design. Treat the measurement as final on those and talk to us first.
Send us the number
Write to us before you place the order. Tell us the size you measured, how you measured it, which finger it is for and which design you are looking at, and we will tell you whether it holds for that particular piece.
If you would rather not print anything, the guide to measuring at home covers the paper strip method and the full size table. Either way, write to us with your number before you order.