How To Make A dual band Silver Inlay Ring Blank Without A Lathe

alright so in this video I'm gonna be melting down some scrap silver and turning it into a double banded inlay ring and I'm going to show how it could basically turn your junk silver back into completely usable stuff all over again you're gonna need some sort of way of melting it I'm going to be using my Smith's little torch with this long extended rosebud portion on it and I'm gonna be using a roller mill from pet buy tools and an ingot mold that it's also from Peppe tools I also have another one that's you can make different shapes with so if the other one doesn't work for what I'm wanting because I want to make wire then I will use this one and go from there so let's get started [Music] alright so the first thing anytime you do anything like this you want ventilation so I'm going to be turning all that on so I've shown how to do something similar to this in the past and if you want to see those I'll make sure to link it in the video description and in the like top card thing up here but I want to show more of the process basically so I'm not going to explain a lot of the stuff but you'll be able to see exactly what I'm doing so first things first when I melt this down and before I can do that I need to prep my ingot mold so like I said before this particular mold is basically just for the flat sheet ingots but you can slide this to make it into a square wire so that's what I'm going to do and hopefully it works and this particular one comes with a little vise thing like this so I'm put that there make sure this is all flat there we go all right so let's see how that turned out I poured a little too much in that one but I could really stop it in time also this is all extremely hot so if you knew this make sure to either wear gloves or not touch it so I didn't pour too much it's hardens on the top so got this little guy down here so that might need to get redone definitely the top all right so there we go so for sure this other one would be way better for using for just flattened ingots so I can make sheet metal better with this and this one probably better for wire but let's get these cleaned up and over to the roller mill so actually I'm going to remelt both of these two and they keep my other one and make this into the flat metal that's gonna be the band okay that should be usable hopefully there we go little thick piece of silver that we're going to turn to sheet metal alright so this is my new roller mill if you haven't seen my last video but I've made it so I can basically mounted to my desk and unmounted to move it all the way because I have a small workbench so I need as much room as I could get I just thought I would show you how easy it actually was to mount and I should have done this years ago okay so you just put those inserts in there's a table line up all your bolts into them and then I use a drill to just roll these down real quick all right so I have the two pieces here I took them out the water to pull them down and wipe them off and make sure that they're actually completely dry because you don't want to get water on these especially brand-new ones because he'll start to rust it and that's bad so don't do that let's start with the wire [Music] so after so many times of doing it you're gonna want to anneal this because it's gonna work harder than every time you put it through there and smash it but starting to get longer already we're gonna be making basically 16-gauge square wire out of this so now that everything's done I'm going to make some flat edges to use as reference points and make rest of the parts for the ring so for this ring I'm gonna make the band ten millimeters thick and then for the ring size itself I'm just going to make this a size ten so I just measure one of my size ten ring scisors and then take the thickness of the metal and add that to its and then multiply everything by 3.14 so this will give us our total length of the band that we need also this is technically the wrong way to do it but it works the best for me when working with thinner metals because as you form it into a ring it stretches a little bit and if you made it exactly the right size it'd be too big so that's why I do it this way so now that all that has done we have a perfect size band I stand to clean up all the edges to make sure everything is nice and square and then we can start folding it around the mandrel to get it its ring shape so now that it's more ring shaped and both ends are connected together I can solder it to make it a full ring so after cleaning off any of the tarnish in the pickling solution I can put it onto my mandrel and start hammering it into the proper shape and the proper size because like I said I undersized my rings so I can stretch them up to what they need to be so now that I have it all the right size and nice and round I can start filing down the outside of it to make sure that it has uniform surface all the way around so we can put our other bands onto it so when filing this down I make sure you use it on a mandrel that is so beat up and ruined there won't matter if I accidentally scratch it and all it's really good for is holding rings to be filed down this also could be done in a lathe in a couple seconds but this video is all about doing it by hand I'll make another video in the future showing how to do all this on a lathe so now that it's all uniformed we can measure the outside of it and use that in the same math equation to figure out how big we need to make our outer bands and once I have that info I can scribe a line onto my wire and cut there to get the lengths that I need so because I just made this wire I need to anneal it because it's completely work-hardened and you won't be able to really bend it too well when it's like this so I'm just gonna use some pliers that have no teeth and round knees by hand because working with square wire it likes to kind of roll on itself a little bit when you have it on a tapered mandrel and this way I can keep everything more square so once I have all three of them done I'm going to solder them all together to make them into actual rings so just like before I'm gonna put them onto my mandrel and round them out to make them into perfect circles and I want them to be as tight as possible on that Center or band so I'm gonna try not to stretch them to by best of my ability so usually with these they get a little wavy when you're hammering them on the mandrel so I'm just basically flattening them out so now I'm basically going to have to press fit this in there because it's such a tight fit and then the center band is a little bit looser and I'm able to push it on with my hands but it's still pretty tight so once you get all of them on there you're gonna want to make sure all your spacings are how you want them and because of how tight everything is they pretty much should stay like that so when it comes to soldering I'm going to solder the outer bands first starting with just one of them and I'm gonna put flux on it and then place a bunch of pieces of medium solder all the way around this and make sure everything flows into the crack between the inner and outer band so we have a completely solid piece so after that throw it into your pickling solution to clean it up and do the same thing to the other side all right so now that we have both of the outer bands soldered on we can do the last band which is in the center and make sure that it actually still is there from all the soldering you did and moving stuff around once you do put some flux on it and then we're going to place pieces of medium solder all the way around on the rim of it and then heat it and solder it in place so once everything is all soldered up I'm going to sand down the outer sides of the ring to make everything nice and smooth if you have any gaps there go back and restore that area by adding flux and more solder so one of the last things I needed to clean up is the inside of the band because some of the solder melted down in there and the solder joint from the original joining of the center band will be visible unless you clean it all up so I'm going to use a radial sanding disc to cut everything down and clean that up so that's about it for this video I wanted to show how you can make one of these by hand and in my next video I'll show actually in laying some stone into this but if you don't want to make your own not exactly this style but basically a single band inlay I actually had someone contact me that makes them and you can see here's a bunch of all and these are made from tungsten so not silver like mine but they come in all different size of course sizes but um all different styles so if you've wanted to get one of these these are from what peaky Platini I have no idea how to pronounce the person's company name but designs so with the key design and I'll have links in the description and in the comments to these but yeah you can technically just order one of these and then you're already done and put it in Lane side of it and like I said these are all made from tungsten this one is basically for sliding something over it and they're already all roughed up and ready for glue so yeah check them out and let them know that I sent you and I might do a video on these sometime soon showing how to use already made ones to put inlays into but I think that'd be interesting for people that just don't want to make their own or don't have the time to make theirs so that's about it if you like this video leave a like on it if you want to see more stuff on how I'm going to finish this ring out or how I'm going to fill these ones in subscribe to my channel I try to make videos every week and if you have any questions whatsoever on anything really feel free to leave a comment and I always try to get back to all of my comments so that's about it so I'll see you guys next time bye [Music]

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Length: 14min 18sec (858 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 29 2020