SwimGuy asked:


My grandmother lives in Mexico City, that’s where my family is from. She always sends me coin ounces of silver on my birthdays. Some years ago, she sent me a big gold ring with my initials on. The ring is really bulky and tacky, it’s around 2 ounces of pure gold. The thing about many gold rings made in Mexico, is that although they are pure gold, the craftsmanship is not the best.
I’ve taken it to jewelers to have appraised, and they all agree it’s worth around 2000 dollars just for the gold.
I would really like to wear it, but it’s too big, I don’t want to look like a rapper from a hip hop video.
I was thiking I could either make several rings out of it, or make a gold coin that reads “Abuela” (grandmother in Spanish.)

Can I melt the ring, or should I keep it the way it is?

Oswaldo