Prehistoric Stone Jewelry - Making a petrified wood ring with Waterjet channel

hey what's up guys this video is actually part two of a collaboration that I'm doing with you water jet channel if you missed the first part go ahead and check that out we got a link to it in the description below we made a petrified 2x4 yes that's right not not a regular wood 2x4 petrified wood 2x4 this took a lot of work and we couldn't have done it without the water jet we had to cut out our rough two-by-four shape and then I used a hundred and sixty dollars of diamond tile saw blades in order to cut this nice and precisely and flat and I do know that was not the best saw to use for that there's lapidary saws that will do a much better job but it's what I had on the hand and lapidary saws are thousands of dollars so we got ourselves a nice 2x4 is a really good just kind of funny joke it looks like wood you can see the wood grain pattern on it and we made the joke that this is what they built their houses out of in the Stone Age so that's really funny it has a lot of fun I like being part of just kind of for fun projects like that and now I've got this slab here which is just thick enough perfect for a ring actually and so obviously I make rings so I'm gonna make a ring out of it the trick to super hard materials like this and like I've done hard materials in the past I've done let's see I did the dinosaur bone one I did the you pearlite those are hard materials those are rock they're fragile very tricky to work with this is like twice as hard as crazy it's like quartz in a lot of places got a lot of really hard spots and the whole thing overall very hard material so it's gonna be quite the challenge I might have to do something like got this piece of brass I could make a liner for the ring that will reinforce it if I have issues with it cracking so we'll see how it goes I'm gonna do my best to make it just pure petrified with Oaks I think that kind of gives us the best look I'm gonna cut through it with my first hole saw here the diamond plated hull sod will cut through here it might take a while but it'll work so after I cut through here I don't want to cut the outside of it because once that separates it's gonna crack and shatter into a million pieces so cut out the inside then I'll figure out how to do the outside of it got all these little diamond dremel attachments got all the different sizes everything like that so it's just gonna kind of be a learn as I go do my very best we're gonna see what we can come up with so let's go ahead and get started all right so I've got my drill press already here what I went and did is I put some this is your CA glue super glue on the back here that should give it just a little bit of extra security keeping it held together that way when I cut through it'll kind of hold it all together rather than have it violently rip apart and then I've got this piece of plywood on the bottom here that's just soft that prevents it from being in contact with the harsh steel table that the drill press has just keep stuff again just from shattering you want to be careful so I'm gonna cut the first hole with the smaller hole saw line it up i dotted out a kind of rough estimate I don't know if you can see that very well but there's a dotted pattern around here that I'm just kind of going after I tried to look and guess where any natural fractures would be and try to avoid them now I'll just clamp it all in place don't want this moving around also want to be careful I don't want too much clamping pressure on it overall because that can make problems where it might crack so I've got this in place now I've got water here I'm gonna be keeping it lubricated keep it cool I'll just slowly go through I'm going to try to stop before I get to the very end and then just call that quits and then repeat the exact same process with this bigger hole saw and that way it won't be like I said a violent like ripping action when it cuts all the way through when I'm done though I can go over and use my Dremel and then cut from the back side and then use that to just gently separate it from the rest of the material [Music] alright that took five minutes just to get through on this first one just to give you an idea of how hard that is you can sometimes a lot of materials you could get through in less than 30 seconds even ten seconds if you're being super aggressive let's be fairly aggressive still being a little bit careful that took over five minutes crazy I just went really gentle towards the end there and I literally just let it feed itself by gravity I didn't put any down pressure on it and I decided to just let it go all the way through it was really hard to gauge the depth then I couldn't tell where I was needing to stop if I stopped too soon that I'd have a lot of material to cut through and I really did not want to have to do that just by hand with the dremel so I decided to keep it going it seemed to work out all right all right now I'm putting in the bigger hole saw I'm gonna go ahead and cut the outer diameter this time around I really don't want to go through because I don't want the material separating and causing it to get flung around on the inside of the hole saw that'll be really bad for it could break it apart so I'm gonna be careful and stop before then all right let's take a look at this so I'll just quickly explain what I did you noticed I flipped it over and went at it from behind and I thought of something I thought was pretty clever so after I had cut through here probably about two-thirds of the way I went in and I filled a couple of the gaps with the CA glue and what that's going to do is when I cut through from behind as soon as I get through all of the petrified wood then I'll have the glue still holding it in place over here and that'll keep it from kind of stripping out and flinging around and breaking so now I've made it all the way through but I just have the glue holding it together so I've got to figure out how to get rid of that it should be pretty easy with the blowtorch or I could use that good ruler saw or something all right blow torch here I'm going to carefully heat this up try not to overheat the petrified wood and then just destroy the bond with the glue have it separate all right I got it separated I used a combination of heat from a blowtorch as well as a jewelers saw to just go in and clean it up get the remnants out and surprisingly it's held up really well to this point I was really really worried we'd have some fracturing so things are looking really good I'm gonna go ahead and reinforce it with a brass liner just because I'm so worried it's gonna want to crumble I've already got this edge here it's kind of chipped when I was doing the drilling with the outer hole saw so I want to do everything I can to preserve this keep it protected so I'll put on that liner and then we'll start working on shaving down the outside and polishing it up [Music] all right so you could see in the video I got this - sighs I could glue it right now but I'm gonna go ahead and hollow out the center first I'd much rather not have this on here while I'm working on the brass because I don't want it to hit on anything accidentally so I'll drill out the center get it close to being Desai's but not too close and then I'll probably part this off as well and then I'll glue it together [Music] [Music] [Music] alright that was really straightforward I love working with brass and machines really well really easily so I've got a piece that looks like this now if I put the outer petrified wood on it it holds it flush against that edge and I just need to glue it in place and then I'll use abrasives of sanding things my belt sander to get rid of the excess brass here I don't want to go rough on it because I can make the Petrified Wood shatter all right I'm just gonna set this in place here so now that I've got here this is ca adhesive and it's an ultra thin viscosity and that means it is thin enough that it can use capillary action to seep into the teeniest of just the smallest little cracks so the way I will display this is you just see me dab this on the top here but it's gonna soak all the way through and I'll prove it to you here in a sec let me harden it so it doesn't get all over me I flip this over Oh yep sure there's a ton of it coming out there's all sorts of glue coming out at the bottom there so it does an amazing job we've got ourselves a really nice bond a really nice seal and this should be very durable so I'll go ahead and trim this up get it flush then we can work on getting this outer diameter down to a more reasonable ring size [Music] all right so this next step I didn't really know what I wanted to do so I spent a little bit coming up with a strategy and I think what I've got will work so I've got this tool holder here I've mounted the ring onto one of my expanding ring mandrels and I got this I bought this like six months ago and I didn't have any idea what I'd use it for I just knew it'd come in handy and this is just kind of like the perfect scenario for us so it mounts in here and then what it does is I'm able to take my Dremel put it in here and I just need to tighten this screw and it clamps it down but this will allow me to just slowly shave this down and it's gonna take quite a while and I'm using these diamond bits here I've got like five replacements so hopefully that'll be enough I'm just gonna slowly go over and just kind of trim it down the reason why I don't want to just do it by hand without attaching it to the lathe here it's because there's some harder and softer spots in the material so what I'm gonna be left with after removing the amount of material that I need to remove I'm gonna be left with high points and low points that are really annoying and difficult to get rid of has to get out like my dial indicator so this should be a really good solution for this hopefully we can remove material fast enough that this will be ideal solution [Music] all right I think I'm actually there let me take this out and show it to you up close you can see the thickness there the Petrified Wood is probably just a hair thinner than the brass is now so really thin like this is not going to be bulky ring which I'm surprised and it's held together wonderfully I think this process just works really well for this material you just have to be so gentle with it and this wasn't gentle but what I mean is you don't want to do anything jarring to it so there is never any major impacts or anything like that we just smoothly sanded away the material to the point where we've got it now and I'm just blown away by how well this is worked so far I'm really happy I'm stoked it is literally 3:30 a.m. and so I've been at this for quite a while and setbacks would be really unfortunate and disappointing at this point but I think we're in the homestretch now I'm gonna go ahead and kind of round off the corners a little bit then I'll sand it up and I sandpaper might not really do anything so we'll see but I'll do my best to sand it and give it the smoothest finish I can and then I'll go to the inside polish the brass up make it look nice I might leave it brushed actually we'll see brass can tarnish and so sometimes I like to just give it a brushed look so it's just more rustic from the get-go but we're in the homestretch there's nothing too crazy or complex going on so I think I'm just going to go ahead and finish it up without any more talking and then we'll just have the grand reveal at the end [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] alright guys here it is finished gotta say I am really relieved and just happy to see this turnout all in one piece it's beautiful you guys know I'm a fan of just like natural nature materials and this is like the ultimate nature ring it started out as wood the living tree and that was a process by Nature and then nature did another process turn it into stone so I love this ring great pattern great color it's kind of tricky to get a feel for any of the wood grain on there but you can kind of tell especially if you compare it to the 2x4 the larger piece we made you can kind of compare it to that and kind of get a feel of what is wood and which way the grain goes and all of that anyways guys this is the ring finished I hope you all really enjoyed it this is a lot of fun this was a really quick turnaround project because we tried to launch this video with the water jet channel so I'm sitting here it's now it's literally 431 a.m. so put a lot of work into this but I gotta say it was all worth it all paid off that looks great and I love that brass liner I'm really glad I decided to do that it's gonna make it strong enough that I'm not gonna be afraid to wear this so win-win all over the place really big fan of this ring anyways guys that's it for this video if you guys didn't know I've got a Kickstarter campaign going on right now and I'm just trying to push that in all of my YouTube videos for the next little while because it's only going to be live for the next like two weeks or so and we've got one of our best designs most popular successful designs we've ever made it's one of my most likeness Durant post of all time it's the voltage ring and we've got it at a really competitive price it's cheaper than almost anything I've ever offered so and that's just for the Kickstarter we're offering a 60% plus I think it's over 60% off that we're offering for it so there'll be a link to that in the description as well you can check it out if you're interested anyways I'll stop talking your guys's ear off thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one

Channel: Patrick Adair Designs

Views: 147,314

Rating: 4.9186373 out of 5

Keywords: Making a ring, petrified wood, diy, how to make a ring, making a ring, ring tutorial, patrick adair, patrick adair designs, fossil wood, ring making, reclaimed wood, wood jewelry, woodcrafting, diy wood, jewelry making, how to jewelry, diy wood projects, repurposed wood, edc, everyday carry, wedding rings, homemade ring, waterjet, waterjet channel, stone jewelry, stone jewellry, time lapse, prehistoric

Id: q5xIb1IQayY

Length: 18min 17sec (1097 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 07 2019