Knox Jewelers Journal
Custom making a wide Eternity Band.
The following is a little look behind the scenes in how a custom ring is made.
I will start by showing just a couple pics of the finished ring and then explain how the ring is made and show some of the steps in the process.
Here are two pics of the finished ring:
Now I will show and explain in a very condensed manner the process of making a ring like this.
Here is the ’screenshot’ from our 3-D design software showing the design from several different angles. A design like this can take many hours of design and engineering time.
After using a CAM technology to make a physical prototype and mold of the two separate elements used to make this ring, the three parts of the design are cast in 18 karat white gold. Here are a few pics of the raw castings:
We casted the design in three sections, the two outside rails and the inside pattern.
The overall finished width will be 15mm. Finger size 5.25
After cleaning up the raw castings ( removing sprues, smoothing, etc) the three sections are joined.
First we tacked the three sections together in a few different spots with a laser to hold the sections together, then we hard soldered them together with a torch to assure a very durable ring.
Here are a couple pics after we finished setting the diamonds in the two outside rails.
Here are a couple quick pics with the rest of the diamonds set.
There is No Short Cut to Quality
The work necessary to obtain an immaculate look on a design with this level of detail is a very time consuming task and as we are fond of saying at Knox Jewelers, “there is no shortcut to quality”.
A master level artisan must carefully bright cut and engrave all of the beautiful detail into the areas around the diamonds and finally apply the mil grain which gives the design a beautiful and finished look.
The diamond setting, engraving and mil-graining labor (not counting design work, prototyping, casting) for a ring with this level of detail will have approx 32 man hours of labor when finished.
We think of projects like this as a little work of art with our name on it.
Click Here to See the product page of the Finished Ring and Hi-Def Video
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