Christmas Present for my Wife

[Talfalfa33]

Seven years ago, my wedding band melted at work, so this year I looked for a band that wouldn't conduct electricity. But all I found was ceramic and too breakable for my work. And the Jewler suggested a bentwood ring. And these are the first two I've done so far.

 

[Fish30114]

Those are beautiful, I would love to know more about how they are made. I would also like to hear about the melting of your ring at work--were you injured? So many things in life steer us to something unexpected, like wooden rings!

Neat stuff.

 

[snyiper]

What about carbon fiber ring?

 

[Talfalfa33]

Well, all it is, is veneer that's heated or steamed and wrapped around a form and let dry. But if you follow this link it explains it all from start to finish. I then use my lathe to cut for the inlay and CA coating. I am in the works to try to figure some way to hold the ring at different angles for a double inlay that intersects in two places. Looking at expandable chucks and muffler expanders for the design of the chuck, just a little smaller.
Part one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOpefb1dIJo
And Part two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWlzlCjwjA

Now for melting my original band, I work as a welder and in operating a track plasma cutter, gloves where wet and thin in that area, and arced and got hot. Pulled glove and ring off at the same time. Ring fell out and landed beside the plasma cutter head while in operation. I then was left with a little ball of gold. Got just a small burn from it. And I didn't even think about carbon fiber until you mentioned it.