Making rings

What’s that?

Making an enamel/cloisonne wedding band is a horrible idea you say?

Well up yours, we’ll make our own rings!!!

What we ended up doing- we went to David Thorp, of WormGear Designs (in Oakland).

We brought him an Art Neuveau poster by Mucha and he hand-carved matching wedding bands in wax, then cast them into white gold. The rings are beautiful!

If you want to make your own ring, here are some of the resources I used in my own search:

• What’s the difference between Appliqué , Engraving Etching and Casting?
• Shor Inmternational supplies wax for carving things, like say rings.
  • Carving Waxes
  • “burrs” for carving
  • tools for carving
• Bartlett & Co. maks tools for making things that are casted… like say rings.
  • casting tools page
  • waxes
• Atlas Diamond’s
  Gold Composition Page
• Smart Savings.com’s guide to Gold Composition
• the World Gold Council’s page on different alloys
• black gold!!

Ring designs

• Santa Fe Goldworks has the inlay effect I was looking at with cloisonne- they use stones (e.g. lapis lazuri)
• Youngblood-Kallas does some cool effects with different finishes of gold- polished and matte
• Keith Farley does some elegant rings, including some where two different metals meld together