Rings

[bonacker]

My first attempt at making rings.

Birch, stained, sealed, and lacquered, with transparent acrylic inset.

[Paul hd]

Hi. I like that a lot. 😎

So what's the prep here. Acrylic, sandwich and glued between two pieces of wood then cut. ?

[DWSUDEKUM]

Very nicely done Art.  Those came out pretty good.  Thanks for sharing them with us.

 

DW

[Scrolling Steve]

Those are sharp!......Really nice work!

[Gordster]

Your 1st try at the rings was a great one..they look good.

[koehler788]

Amazing work as usual!

[kywoodmaster]

Really like them. How about a little information on the prep process?

[bonacker]

Paul above had it right.

Cut 2 pieces of 1/8" thick wood about 2" square. Same with the acrylic. Sandwich together with super glue gel with acrylic in the middle. Clamp together for about an hour. Then determine how large an OUTSIDE diameter you want the ring to be. Use a compass or correct size washer and draw the circle. Carefully mark the center point.

I then used a spade bit (just under my ring size) and slowly drilled through the sandwich. I was worried whether this type of bit would melt the acrylic, but it worked OK. I then cut the outside diameter as carefully as possible with my scroll saw in order to minimize sanding. Then I used my Dremel rotary sander on the inside diameter so it would fit my finger. I used my regular rotary sander on each wood side of the ring to get the width I wanted for the ring. Then I hand sanded the wood sides of the ring to get a nice round-over look. Using a very small brush, I stained and sealed the wood. A light careful sanding with at least 220 sandpaper followed by spray lacquer finished it up.

[amazingkevin]

My first attempt at making rings.

Birch, stained, sealed, and lacquered, with transparent acrylic inset.

Art i've looked at wooden wedding rings in the past and found them to be one piece of work.If you know how to do this ,Your going to be  laughing your way to the bank.Google "wooden wedding rings" and you  will see why. They go for an outrageous amount  of money and worth it. :) :) :) :) :)

[wombatie]

They look amazing.  Thats definitely thinking outside the box.

 

Marg

[Paul hd]

Hi bonacker

Thanks for the detailed "how to". I will definitely give this a go, they look great. ðŸ‘

[lawson56]

Now they look Fantastic! And your 1st try? WOW.You have done an Awesome job! :thumbs:

[Paul hd]

I bet they would make great napkin holders.

[Fish]

Nice work, thanks for sharing.

[rdatelle]

I like those. Great job. I might have to try that.

[bobscroll]

You did really well Art on your project! Thanks for

showing, Bob           

[Proxprof]

Good idea, worked really well.

Thanks for showing.

 

Richard :thumbs: