Making My Most Complex Ring Ever using Fordite, Rose Gold, and Black Diamonds

hey what's up guys in today's video I'm going to be making what is by far the most technical ring I've ever made it's going to include over 30 individual components and that includes a bunch of different pieces of rose gold black diamonds as well as some for die I've got here I'm gonna be using all sorts of equipment I'm going to use my lathe bill my soldering torch and even my laser welder from Orion welders so it's going to be crazy but if you stick around to the end I promise you this video is going to be worth it let's go ahead and get into it first let's quickly talk about the design of the Ring the right-half is mainly for tight and then the left-half is mainly rose gold for tight has a lot of layers so depending on how I shape it I can reveal a lot of different patterns and colors so you'll notice that a lot of the design is based around exposing as much of the four tight layers as possible the final main feature of the Ring will be 12 rose gold rods that will go through the four die and then be exposed in the middle of the Ring and then I'll also set a black diamond into each of the ends of the rods which should really add to the look of the ring now there are a lot of very tight tolerances and tiny features on this ring so it was very important that I made a very specific and carefully thought-out plan for the ring which I did and I'll get started on it now first I'm going to prepare the rose gold liner to be soldered to one of two outer Rose Bowl rings my machine it precisely that way the second piece falls into place perfectly [Music] any soldering needs to be completed before I add the four tight because it will burn so later on I will rely on my laser welder in order to weld the rose gold without having to overheat the four tight [Music] [Music] next I'll be drilling all of the holes for the rose gold rods to be inserted to and for this I used my mill with my rotary table because precision is really important for this step if I want them to look like it was very well made [Music] [Music] [Music] next I will very carefully shave down the inner lip of the ring to make space for a four type piece to slot into and I machine it down until it's just one third of a millimeter thick and there's three reasons I didn't just shave it away completely the first is practical and gives me a very large surface for the floor type to glue on to making the bond very strong and very secure second is so that the ring when viewed from the inside will be 50% for Knight and 50% rose gold right now in the middle this way I can show off the unique patterns that the four Knight has that aren't really shown anywhere else on the ring and third the small layer of rose gold that is left will be visible at the bottom of the exposed channel that the rose gold rods are going to go through and I thought this would just look better compared to for Knight in this scenario now it's time to select a piece of for Knight to cut out for the ring and this is one of the very most important steps because it will have a huge effect on the overall look of the ring so I'm looking for a piece that has a lot of swirls and deformities in it because that'll give us the most interesting and colorful patterns and a really big issue here is that most of the pieces that are gonna be interesting are gonna have large air gaps in them so the end result would be a piece of poor diet that would fall apart once I cut it out so to remedy this I'm going to be stabilizing this entire piece of cordite with Astrotech epoxy and this process alone will take over a day to complete but the results it will give us will be well worth the time and requires I've chosen black as the color to add to the epoxy this should make things very subtle and not distract from the natural beauty of the four-night but can make it a little extra special I'm going to be adding just a slight amount of pearlescent pigment to it so this will give it a shimmer that includes silver purple blue as well as gold and the biggest reason I did it is because it'll match this slight shimmer that four-night naturally has to it and that's due to the metallic paints used in the car paint that it's actually made of so I covered the entire piece in epoxy and place it in my vacuum chamber this step is critical in order to fill every single little gap in the four night [Music] after 24 hours of cure time I sanded down that excess Astrotech epoxy layer on the top in order to reveal the beautiful floor type patterns beneath and this gives me a better idea on where I should cut my blank from in order to get the best patterns now cutting out a blank will be really simple I'm just going to use my diamond hole saws for that and here it is ready to go as you can see it's looking amazing so far let's go ahead and get on to the next step now a machine it to size and get it ready to be used on the ring and again dimensional accuracy is super important on this ring where the four tight sleeves on the inside of the rose gold the four tight will be less than one millimeter thick so that means my lathe has to be tuned just right my expanding ring mandrels need to spin perfectly true so of course shameless plug here I'm gonna be using that Patrick Adair supplies brand mandles for that and then I need to measure the fluorite with calipers after every single pass in my lathe in order to ensure the fitnah is just right it's not I'll end up standing straight through the four tight which will at best expose the gold and at worse the ring will fall apart but either way the ring would be completely ruined so it's absolutely critical [Music] just as kind of a side note this ring was very stressful to make just because of that reason that almost every single step required precision to the point where if it wasn't spot-on the ring would be ruined beyond repair but I was able to successfully machine the four tight to just the right size and everything is looking great so far so enough pessimism let's just be positive let's get this finished now I'm going to use my Fordham to drill out holes for the rose gold rods and I'm using the carefully cut holes in the rose gold as a guide this allows me to drill by hand and still be accurate which saves me a bunch of time [Music] next I'll shave the four tight down to its final dimensions and give it a quick sanding and polish [Music] now I'll use a carbide chamfer bit to chamfer each hole in the floor night this allows me to set diamonds just below the surface of the floor dice so that doesn't snag on anything and it also has the wonderful benefit of exposing all sorts of interesting details in the floor type that would otherwise be hidden below the surface [Music] [Music] now let's make those rose gold rods I've been talking about this whole time each one needs to be five millimeters long and have a black diamond sent into it [Music] [Music] here I'm using a setting punch to bend the edges of the gold over the lip of the diamond in order to hold it in place and none of the steps involved with this step are super challenging necessarily but because I am doing 12 of these I need to make sure I make each one carefully in order to make them all look identical [Music] now it's finally time to break out the Orion laser welder this is a machine that has very quickly become an invaluable part of my tool arsenal it allows me to make rings that would otherwise be impossible for various reasons whether the parts I need to join are very small are made of dissimilar materials that otherwise wouldn't join together or in this case because the work pieces can't be heated to a high temperature without destroying so well they each rod in place is very straightforward I have the laser set to a fairly low power but I turn the number of milliseconds per laser burst up which helps give me a large and secure world without vaporizing less material [Music] and I just wanted to mention being able to hold the workpiece in my hands makes things just so much more convenient here I can instantly just hack a gold rod in place then I check if the positioning and fitment of it's perfect then I can quickly adjust it or I can continue on if it's ready to go it turns a tedious soldering job into a quick and easy laser well that leaves me with a bond that's stronger than any solder [Music] okay now they've all been soldered into place and the ring is really starting to resemble the finished product that I'm shooting forth so that was super encouraging so I spent just so many hours and hours on this ring up until this point next I'll be adding the final band of four tight to the ring and I'll trim it down to size [Music] [Music] all right now we're down to the final piece and it's the final band of rose gold that will sleep on to the end of the ring and again I can't solder the ring right now so I'll need to use the laser welder this time I'm going to be using a healer wire that's also made of rose gold and I need to use this if I want to get a seamless connection between the two pieces because every time the laser zaps the gold and vaporizes a very small amount of the material leaving a little pock mark in the gold so the wire filler avoids that altogether while still securely welding the two pieces together [Music] [Music] now everything is finally in place I'll just do a bit of trimming sanding polishing and cleaning and we'll be finished and I'm going to have a ton of photos of the ring that I hope you'll stick around for it because this ring has so much detail but you really need to see it from a lot of different angles in order to fully appreciate all that it has to offer here it is in its final glory and I can't tell you how good it feels to see it all finished and looking the way it does I put over 80 hours of labour into this ring and I think it shows it just has so many details and features and they all came together so beautifully I could just spend hours looking at this ring now I've got some exciting news this ring is going to be up for auction and this is the first time I've done this with a ring that I've made for a video and I've really wanted to try it for a long time so I'll have all of the details available in the description but here's a basic breakdown of how it will work I'll have you email me with a basic form of proof of funding then you'll be added to a private group chat of other bidders and whoever bids the highest amount after a set period of time will be the winner of the Ring I'll publicly announce whatever the ring ends up selling for because I know you guys are always curious to see that you can also purchase your own custom size of this ring for $9,500 on my website there's also a link to that in the description that's it guys thanks so much for watching I truly appreciate all your support you guys are the best and I will see you next week

Channel: Patrick Adair Designs

Views: 466,713

Rating: 4.8329597 out of 5

Keywords: ring making, patrick adair designs, jewelry making, ring, glow ring, fordite jewelry, fordite ring, black diamond, black diamond jewelry, jewelry, jewellery design, jewellery, complex diy, diy, Patrick Adair Supplies, Ring making, make a ring, Ring Mandrel, rose gold, rose gold wedding ring

Id: Nt3MRMDVGyc

Length: 14min 43sec (883 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 09 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/bugo]

/r/ATBGE/

[u/BloodyRightNostril]

This was like watching a pair of Ed Hardy jeans being hand-sewn.

[u/hairyconary]

Incredible craftsmanship... but such an ugly ring.

[u/gzpz]

$9,500! I love artisan videos. I love jewelry. This guy is talented obviously, but sorry, that was the most disappointing piece I've ever seen. Truly ugly.

[u/MrGreg]

I can't believe he didn't polish the scratches out of the gold before the final pictures. I also can't believe he didn't align the "fordite" pieces so it looks like a single piece with continuous grain.

And finally, that ring looks way too big for anyone to wear.

[u/Qlinkenstein]

Fordite is way too soft to be useful as a ring. No matter how much he "stabilized" it, urethane paint will always be kind of rubbery soft.

[u/Tiny_Pay]

awesome.....

[u/TheRealYeastBeast]

Wonder if he always works while wearing that spiffy leather jacket.