Sometimes I wonder if I'm crazy to do so much of the fabrication myself. Making the band for this type of ring requires:
- cutting a strip out of my brass sheet
- sanding off the rough edges
- annealing with my torch
- running it through the embossing machine
- punching a hole in the middle
- bending the metal strip around a ring mandrel
- pickling to get the fire scale off
- tumbling to make it shiny
That's just the band, but the rest is easy. I look for a bead, nut and bolt that fits. Usually I need a metal disk as a kind of washer/bead cap. I make those out of sheet metal as well (which involves most of the same steps as the band). Crazy? Perhaps. But I have to justify purchasing all of those tools.
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