How to make a silver and opal inlay ring using UV resin

alright so in this video I'll be showing you how to make a ring in a similar way that I have already but we're going to be using some different materials and different processes so instead of using a CA glue or a super glue to do this I'm going to be using a UV resin which means it hardens with UV light or sunlight so for an example this is a ring that I did with UV resin and this is a full metal ring that has a copper brass and silver mocha magani band on the inside and I filled it completely with the UV resin but we're not gonna be making it using this material we're going to be using a little bit of silver and a lot more silver some crushed opal UV resin and we might be using some glow powder or some dyes but we'll see you when we get there [Music] so the first thing we're gonna need to do is figure out the ring size I'm going to be making a size 9 so I'm just going to look on my mandrel for the 9 on here and measure to it so a size 9 is actually about 19 millimeters so I'll get as close as I can because I happen to move it when I trade off and the next thing you're gonna need is the thickness of your inner band so it is about 0.6 millimeters I'm ever gonna write that on here so I want to measure this every time until I cut that off like I normally do and then have to write it again later okay so now we have to do some math so we're gonna take the 19 millimeters that we measured and then add the thickness of the metal two kits that's and then we're going to multiply that by 3.14 and that is the length we need to cut to make our band on the right size and this will be a little undersized 2i you'd normally do it this way on purpose especially when working with a thinner metal so I can stretch it up to be the perfect size because downsizing is a little bit harder and you need different tools up sizing you need a hammer and a mandrel so that's why I go a little bit tighter when doing it like this all right so that will be close enough and now I'm gonna take my a giant piece of silver and markets so had to mark the silver it's pretty easy you can just hook this on to it an edge if you have a flat piece and then you can scratch the metal it's better to do this on flat purpose though so just like that so now you have from here to here is the right size and it's marked then we need to do another sizing from here out for our thickness of the band so I'm gonna do seven millimeters so there we go kinda see it on the camera and now I just need to cut this out with a jeweler star real quick someone cutting these out I always cut to a smaller one first and then I'll cut the long bit of this so there we go we have a little ring blank now and I need to cut down the edges to make sure that this is gonna be flat and then cut this down a bit to make sure that everything's flat so we can solder it into a ring shape to do that I'm just gonna use a sanding stick that I made this is a 320 grit sandpaper you also use water on it which makes it AB not gets clogged all right that should be good enough and then any other smoothing out will do after its form into a ring and after we get other parts on it okay so and before forming this I'm going to anneal it to soften this so I can actually bend it without making a little kinks or anything weird in it and it makes it a lot easier okay so now that it's all gross-looking and soft you can just round it around your mandrel it doesn't have to be in the right spot or anything you just want the basic round shape out of it then with some flat pliers that have no teeth so you don't scratch this up or Mar it you want to bend this into a D shape so there you go you wanted to be as straight as possible and then we're gonna throw this into the pickling solution to get all this black off and make sure this is clean and then we'll solder it together okay so here we go and we're going to solder this solder joint and then I'm going to use some flux on it then I'm gonna take a piece of solder and place to solder joints right on top of the solder this only really works if you have a really tight solder joint so you have any gaps it's gonna just stop if a gap almost likely [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I don't know how well that showed up but basically the solder will just be sucked up this entire thing and just make it perfect solder joint damn that should be good so I'm gonna round this out and then throw it into the pickling solution and get it all cleaned up and you're ready for the next pieces I need to make and to round it out I'm just gonna put it back on for my mandrel and push it down as much as I can until I get stuck and then tap it with a rawhide mallet [Music] and there we go it's all the way down to size nine and if I take this off flip it over it's not a size 9 so you have to flip it and actually hit it to make sure it's the right size so here it is I'll round it out and looking like a ring now I'm gonna put this in a pickling solution to get it cleaned up and then we're going to clean it up a little bit more to make sure it's uniformed measure it and make the outer pieces alright so if you have access to a little wave like this you can use it to clean up the outside of this real quick and make sure it's completely uniform and especially if you have these little mandrel things that I got from ring supply Stockholm they make ring making super easy cuz you could just put it on here and it won't come off and I have a discount from them if you're interested in it just use my channel name which is coming operations and you'll get a percentage off I don't remember what it is but you get percentage off so I'm going to use some 240 grit sandpaper and water [Music] also I have this plexiglass so it doesn't get water on this heel and rust everything you can see the ring has low spots in it [Applause] that's where I'm trying to take out basically so I'm going to use a sanding stick [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] all right that should be close enough really you want these two edges to be 100% of symmetrical the middle doesn't matter too much because we're gonna be folding it in and this could be done on your mandrel your normal ring mandrel and a file which I've shown before in past videos yeah see how there's bits there that are just low spots and you could just actually use the lathe that was intended and use the tooling piece and go over this real quick which I'll just show an example and I have an auto feeder on here or it comes with an auto beater so it just goes across for me [Music] and there we go make short work of that so now that we're back over here I'm going to use a little bit more sandpaper and knock off any edges nothing crazy and now we can measure it so I'm gonna measure towards the outside and I'm gonna try to get a average because these are normally not a hundred percent round because you're doing it by hand so I'm gonna go with a 20.3 and then this is 16-gauge square silver wire which is also you also need a measure which is about a 1.3 so with all that we got to do the same math we did to make this but this time we make it so it goes around the outside so all I'm gonna do is do the twenty point three and add the one point three two that's and then multiply that by 3.14 and there we go that's how long I need be wired to be there we go let's close enough and same thing with marking this as the Y error as I did on this you just kind of hook on to one end and then scratch where you need to cut I'm gonna do that twice but let me cut this one so I'm gonna do this twice but I'm gonna cut it here and then measure from here and go down again so I'm gonna cut that off with a jeweler saw so it has a clean line I'm also gonna use one of these to make sure it's completely squared you basically just put it in here with a little bit of it sticking up and file it and now it's squared then I'm gonna do the other side too cuz I've previously cut this wire so that's one and I'll do one more okay once they're all in yield and everything you're gonna want to wrap them around just like you did before or just use pliers because it's a square wire you can get it all out of shape so I suggest using your pliers and just slowly bend it all right so you just wanted to be as close as possible there and you need to do this to both ball all right there we go how about throw both of these into the pickling solution clean it up and then solder both here are both of them all cleaned up so we're just going to solder that little joint just like we did it on the big one and the same exact way so you're just gonna need to put some flux on that area you don't really have to do the whole thing since we're going to have to put it in the pickling solution anyways and they'll clean off everything in there and then this is hard silver soccer also that I'm using and just heat them up until the solder flows you'll probably notice that I'm using my just plumbing torch for this because to precise on your eating [Applause] [Music] [Music] there we go now all we need to do is put them into our pickling solution so while that is cleaning off I'm gonna actually mark this with a 19-5 stamp because once I get everything done I don't want to bend this and I don't want to risk cracking or breaking any of the inlay so as long as you're careful around that when cleaning and polishing the inside of this you'll stay and everything will be fine everything's all out and cleaned up so now I need to round these and then get them ready to actually be soldered on to do that I'm just gonna put them onto my ring mandrel and then tap them to size with the rawhide hammer and try not to do that because they all have to even this out and when putting this to the right shape you don't want to hit too hard because it'll stretch it and then it won't fit your center ring and that it's a problem and of course you're gonna do this to both of them also to check if they're all warped or not you can push on them and see if they move and if they move a bunch like that you're gonna need a hammer it down and again don't hit this too hard or you'll start to flatten it flip it over and then check it on the mandrel again to make sure that it's actually round okay so to assemble this is pretty easy these should be fairly tight so all you need to do is take your ring and press it down onto it if it's too tight you can actually hammer it in place so we're gonna solder this one on first so it doesn't move so we can solder on the second one okay so soldering is on can be a pain in the ass the reason for that is if you see it's real hard to make things a hundred percent round by hand so you're gonna be off a little bit in parts which will leave holes and you don't want holes you want this to be one continuous piece so sometimes you'll solder this whole thing sand it and you'll see little gaps in holes and they have to go back and flood that area with solder again and then go back and sand it and make sure everything's good hopefully we can get that in one go if not show you the process also of course puts flux on your work just kind of focus it on the area that you want your solder to flow you can even put it on before you put that ring on and they'll be moving better and then we're just gonna stack pieces of solder on here okay that should be good enough and if not we'll do what I said earlier so one thing before heating this make sure that everything is kind of dried out or your little pieces will just shoot off and you'll have to pick them up and put them back and it makes it really hard or they'll fall on this edge and then you don't notice they'll melt on the inside you have to cut all that off so try to heat it as slow as possible or just let it sit here and let it dry I'm gonna heat it slowly and because I'm in patience and I want to get this done [Music] okay once you get it all flowy like that you can actually move it around a bit all right so what I was doing there is it slid down a little bit and I don't want that so I was heating it and pushing this back up as soon as the metal became liquid and I don't suggest doing that but if you have to that is one way to fix it so I'm gonna put this into our pickling solution to clean it all up and then stand down this side and see if everything's where it needs to be and if not fill it in with a little bit more solder it looks like right here we'll need it okay it's all clean and I need to cut it down and make sure everything's okay so using some water and some sandpaper that's for wet or dry this is 120 grit okay I don't know if this is gonna come up but there's little gap right there and a little bit right here here and here so I'm gonna fill all that in so to do that I'm gonna use some extra easy solder and put in those points and fill them in but before I do that I'm going to put this on let's solder this on because if I put extra easy solder on this and then use easier medium on this one it's going to make that other solder flow so I might as well put this together so same thing as before just put flux on to it another thing you can do is put the flux on and then heat it to dry it off and then you can place your solder bits so you can have to wait as long for them to dry and you'll have to worry about I'm moving so there we go all nice and soldered on so same thing put this in the pickling solution clean it off sand down figure out where the holes are fill the holes okay now that I have it all cleaned up I'm gonna sand it down you can all see if you have a lathe you can just put this on the lathe and cut all that off real quick but I want to show you how to do it using mostly hand tools I'm going to show show the lathe later and here's the other side and it has a tiny bit here and a little bit over here so both sides need to be fixed up a little bit more and then it'll be good to go and we can start doing all the inlay stuff so let's fix that you might have noticed that I actually have this little thing down here that allows me to spin my work so this comes in handy and you just put on top of my tripod you can put on the table wall so you probably don't need all this because I think this is a ceramic top too but I'd rather not ruin it so to fix it all just flux the top of the Ring lightly so you can still see everything and I'm going to use some easy solder and put it directly on the parts that are exposed all right so that will fill in all the spots that I have missed so it's all dirty on the other side now but this is all fixed so I'm gonna take this put it in the pickling solution and then clean it up and then add all my solder again okay so it's all completely done now and cleaned up on the sides everything's filled in but we need to texture the inside of here to make it so when the resin and everything sets it has something to grab onto so I'm going to be using a diamond bit you all right there we go so it has a little bit of a texture in there and because we're not gonna be looking at any of that it's fine to leave it like that if you're planning to actually see all the way through I would suggest polishing that area okay so here's some of the stuff we're gonna be using for at this inlay like I said before this is a UV resin so it hardens with UV light or sunlight or this little flashlight so this is a UV flashlight there's these dives that you can mix with the UV resin to change its color or you can use these glowing powders for different color glows and they charge with light so I like this one [Music] it's like a light blue or a teal or any of the other colors that you can actually see I'm also going to be using this little pipette thing and you can get these for really keep all this there's like six dollars and you can also use this resin just by itself and it'll be clear so that gives you the ability to do what I did with this ring [Music] so let me show you how to use this to set all these pieces opal into the ring when doing this I'm gonna be doing it on the lathe mostly to hold it but you can put this on to your mandrel also and probably get a way of doing the same thing I'm gonna take some of the UV resin make sure you have gloves on because this will get into your skin and can cause bad reactions so just always wear gloves when dealing with this and have ventilation set up a little bit of it in the ring and then I'm gonna take some of my stone a lot of people like to just fill the ring basically with like a CA glue or something and then pour all this into it and I don't like doing that because I don't like how the end result books I like having bigger pieces in so all you need to do is use the RV or UB red light and it will harden everything so as you can see it's all hard now you now that I have that whole thing filled in with glow powder or resin and what is it called opal I need to hear it completely and that's where this comes in these are UV growing lights for plants these lights are also UV because that's what you need for Phillip growing plants in general so I'm going to turn this on and let us sit here see if I really wanted to I could turn this on [Music] and make sure it gets full UV all the way around so I'm gonna let this sit here for like 20 minutes or so tear all that up and then I'm gonna cut it alright so here it is all dried up or cured you might have to go over it again but everything is all stuck in there now I need to go over it with a or with the label and cut it down you can also use a file to cut this down because it's a really soft stone you okay so there it is so far I just need to fill it in a little bit more of it with some resin cured again cut it and then sand it down so I filled in any of those little gaps and holes with more of the material and code the entire thing in this thin coat of resin and cured this already so now we don't need the actual cutting part of the lathe because we're going to be using sandpaper for all the rest of this so with my sanding stick I'm going to basically just hold it underneath and makes you ever make sure that everything is uniform all the way across and then continue through the different grits until it's completely smooth and officially rinse so I'm starting at 220 and I think I'm going up to about 5,000 so here that goes oh and make sure to use water you so here's the ring after all those different grits so it's completely smooth now I'm gonna go over it with some rubbing compound or polishing compound and then it will be good to go on the outside so here it is it's all nice and shiny there's a couple spots I wish I would have added a little bit more because you can see all the way through but I will have to do that on another one or I can drill into this cut those areas out and fill them in so even though that's all shiny the sides still look terrible so I'm gonna polish up the inside of this and then kind of curve the outside using all the sand papers again just on the outside but I need to clean up the inside of this and I'm gonna do that with a polishing wheel all right so I'm gonna clean up the inside using this little abrasive rubber piece just look at you a different grits and do it again and you keep doing this all the way down the grits so you have and then you use a natural polish on the inside okay so I'm gonna put this back onto the lathe and polish up these edges and round them a little bit because if you see right now it's really squared off and I want to go for a more rounded finish on that inside and outside so let's go do that so one of the easiest ways to do this is to just basically half put it on to the mandrel so it's sticking off of it and then you're gonna have to go through it with all the different scam papers again but rounding the inside and outside and then take it off and flip it over and do the other side you okay so check out the difference this is the side that I just did all the sanding work on see how it's nice and smooth it has rounded edges now and here's other side how it has pretty sharp edges so just need to do that to the other side do a final polish and this is completely done so thank you for watching my video and if you liked it feel free to leave a thumbs up if you have any questions or suggestions leave a comment below and if you would like to be updated every time I post a new video subscribe to my channel I try to put out a new video every week well thank you for watching and see you guys next time bye [Music] [Music]

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Id: 3CCiTSnBwfQ

Length: 39min 0sec (2340 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 11 2019