Wedding rings

[No skills]

Hello all,

I'm/we are looking for some unusual wedding rings, nothing wrong with the usual gold/diamond jobs but we would like some thing different. Seems to be a lot of titanium/tungsten ones around which are very similar in looks - wooden rings have been hinted at by swimbo but I haven't seen anything good yet.

Any suggestions? maybe custom made is the way to go?

 

[jimmy_s]

maybe pan your own gold - that's what my friend did

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... de-be.html

takes a while though!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Find a silver/gold smith near you and make your own? A lot of them do one day courses.

 

[No skills]

Phil

I have seen some courses advertised online, the day looks enjoyable but the end product is a fairly standard (if handmade) gold or silver ring.

Jimmy

Don't think I have the spare time

 

[Normancb]

I've wondered about trying this guy:

http://www.bangleguy.com/page/page/8464584.htm

 

[jimmy_s]

I am with you on the time front no skills lol.

I went once panning years ago with another friend who was a gold geologist and knew where to go. Unfortunately we weren't supposed to be at this particular place (I dont think even now its well known) any way my friend Owen advised that if we were stopped we would just say we were going to have a picnic - it was just a strange coincidence that we would be heading to perhaps the most productive area of gold in Scotland and our "picnics bowls" had funny grooves in them and didnt look very hygenic. Anyway it seemed like a good idea if we were likely to get stopped by someone with a shotgun not best pleased at our presence.

We spent a day digging in a burn panning - I think I got about a couple of grammes. Owen told me that the term just a flash in the pan came from gold panning. The tiny specs of gold shine brightly in the pan but alas despite their brightness are virtually weightless. That was all I panned that day - flashes lol.

 

[Kalimna]

My wedding ring was made by a chap in Dunkeld, and for something a little different can't be beaten. He can use your choice of precious metals to forge a billet of patterned metal not unlike Damascus steel. So, in essence, there cannot be two identical rings out there. Mine is a more subtle combo of gold and platinum, but the choice is yours. Here's his websitehttp://www.broughton-stuartjewel ... tuarb.html

Cheers,
Adam

 

[Glynne]

If you can come up with a design, the Jewellery Quarter in Brimingham (Hockley) has lots of manufacturing jewellers who will make your rings for you. Many years ago, I got a works colleague to bring me back 3 sapphires from India (1 small one and 2 very small ones) and I designed a setting to represent my wife and 2 kids. I was then able to go to several jewellers and refine the design with their input and then have the ring made. Still my wife's favourite piece of jewellery
Also having lost 1 wedding ring (surfing) and broken another several times (gym, DIY etc.), my wife took my old ring and several bits of old gold chain and had a new ring made which is absolutely solid.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Adam - your link doesn't work. Mokume gane is the name. (few minutes pause) Actually if you google the name it tells you that. I cut the back of my wedding ring through - I used to work with a crane driver who had a finger pulled of. It saved my finger a few times, if I caught it badly it would fly off. I'd pick it up with one side straightened out.

 

[Kalimna]

Ooops. Try the link with just the URL, and not the bit at the start.

http://www.broughton-stuartjewellery.co ... tuarb.html

Cheers,
Adam

 

[treeturner123]

Hi

I'd go with Glynne's suggestion. My wife designed her engagement ring which I had made in the Jewellery Quarter. My daughter and her husband had their wedding rings made there at about half the retail price. Even if you don't have them made, there are so many jewellers there and so much choice, it's worth a visit anyway. But make sure you go for a whole day!!

Phil

 

[No skills]

Thank you all for the suggestions, we will have a good look at them all. Time is short and the pockets long at this very moment, some temporary plain gold bands will be purchased for the day - or maybe I'll find some olives

We have done everything in the wrong order over the last 11 years, I think it's fitting that we have something a little different for our rings - I was also very chuffed that my girlfriend suggested it when I had been thinking the same thing for days

Thanks.

 

[No skills]

Thank you all for the suggestions, we will have a good look at them all. Time is short and the pockets long at this very moment, some temporary plain gold bands will be purchased for the day - or maybe I'll find some olives

We have done everything in the wrong order over the last 11 years, I think it's fitting that we have something a little different for our rings - I was also very chuffed that my girlfriend suggested it when I had been thinking the same thing for days

Thanks.