This Wedding Ring Is INSANE! Silver & Damascus Steel Spinner Ring

I made a spinner ring with silver and Damascus steel and I was so excited about it that I decided to film the whole process to show you how it's made from start to finish and if you would like to take one of these home then you can check out my new website danrisjjewelry.com this ring really is an enigma and the whole process for creating this spinner ring with that captive Damascus steel band really is fascinating so if you cook this video looking for some satisfying silversmithing action delivered with a soothing Welsh accent then you're in the right place let's go so the first step in creating a sterling silver Damascus steel spinner ring which is a mouthful was to figure out how much material to use for the inner band um so I had to start out by doing some maths using some simple equations to figure out the right amount of silver to cut to form the inside of the Ring so there I am the inside of the Ring was made with a piece of 0.8 mil thick sterling silver sheet and so I cut that with a saw and then filed the edges so that they were nice and flat ready the solder and then I got to enjoy this part of the process which I'll be honest I don't think it's safe for work uh please don't report this video literally never gets old and this was the highlight of my day peeling the plastic off bits of silver it's the Simple Pleasures in life to keep me going you know there you go mate you can't say you haven't had your money's worth uh but anyway after I cut the piece of silver it was time to use my enormous crushing strength uh to bend that piece of metal so that the edges were nearly touching at that stage it formed a kind of Millennium Falcon sort of u-shape and so I used a rawhide Hammer to hammer the edges down into a hook a D shape so that they were meeting up flat with each other ready to solder to prepare for the first round of soldering I mixed up some flux in this borax dish and borax comb really simple you just add water mix the cone around and flux magically appears I then applied a generous amount that flux to the seam of the ring and put it down on a soldering block so the first step was to caramelize the goop something I never thought I'd seen on video but I took a blowtorch and uh he did the ring up until that flux kind of turned into a caramel and then I took my trusty snippers and cut a few pieces of hard silver solar so I said all right hard Silver solder put those down on the soldering block and then place the seam of the Ring above the pieces of solder I fired up the blow torch and heated the piece evenly until the silver solder was ready to flow into the seam through a capillary action very satisfying to watch um I've played it here in real time so you can see how suddenly that silver solder flows it really is quite magical to watch and there we go and so with that joint successfully soldered I gave the piece a satisfying dunk after soldering the piece was kind of all oxidized and there were big clubs of caramelized flux all over the place and so to clean that off I used a mild acid solution called pickle which you just put in warm water and leave the piece in the pickle for I don't know 20 minutes and it comes out it's nice and clean after pickling it was time to kind of clean up some of the lumps of solder from the inside of the Ring which I did with a handy sanding attachment on my rotary tool and then it was time to turn this d-shaped piece of metal into something that looked more ring-shaped so to do that I used a tribute or a metal mandrel and again using my enormous strength I pushed the ring around the mandrel and then used my Rawhide Hammer to hammer it up hammer it out until it was well round I must say it was looking significantly more ring shaped at this stage but I needed to do a bit of cleanup so I took a couple of files and a ring clamp and I just filed the outside until it was nice and smooth and there were no lumps of solder left on the outside pretty cool little tool and then it was time to make sure the ring was the right size so to do that I used the ring stretcher and just gradually expanded the ring until it was the right size I have no idea why I thought this would be a cool shot but there we go I included it so with that inner sleeve created it was time to create some collars or rails which I made using a 1.5 mil Square wire and I was able to take the measurement of the outer diameter of the sleeve I just make made to determine how much 1.5 mil wire I needed to make the collars and again it was a similar process I just snipped the wire off with um my wire cutters filed the edges bent them into a D shape and then soldered them with hard solder Chuck them in the pickle cleaned up the inside and outside and once again made use of the trivet and the Rawhide hammer to hammer the Rings out until they were round and after I'd done that they were kind of a bit uh wonky a bit drunk so I just used an anvil and the Rawhide hammer to whack them out until they were flat basically then I gradually expanded the rings on the ring stretcher to make sure they were a perfect fit for the sleeve so with all the silver gubbins fabricated it was time to machine a piece of Damascus steel to form the spinner portion of the Ring so the first stage of this was to create a hole in the piece of Damascus round bar so I had the round bar held in the Chuck of my metal lathe and then used progressively larger HSS drill bits to gradually drill a hole out of a piece of Steel and then I needed to just take out a small amount of material from the inside just so that the spinner had enough room to actually Spin and so I used my boring out tool just to take off about half a millimeter and I do love this boring out tool nice carbide cutting tip for just cuts through stainless steel like butter beautiful I then machined the outer diameter using another carbide cutting tool and when the right diameter was achieved I then parted the the piece off with a pathing off tool which is a fairly loud operation so I think I I've done my best to keep the volume down on this part after parting the ring off I use the uni mandrel from ringsupplies.com to hold the ring and then use a few grits of wet and dry sandpaper for my 240 up to 1200 grit just to give the ring a nice surface finish and make sure there were no Machining marks left on it and then I whipped over the ring with some triply Polishing Compound on a nylon brush which gave me a pretty nice finish sorry cleaned the piece and then dunked it into an acid solution for this I used ferric chloride uh which etches the steel to bring out that gorgeous pattern so while the Damascus was in the acid solution it was time to solder on those rails and as you can see I did a cracking job of caramelizing that goo again and this time to solder the rails onto the main sleeve I used small pieces of easy Silver solder basically the easy solder melt at a lower temperature than the hard solder and so I was able to use this without kind of melting the previous seams of the three rings I fabricated earlier I think uh soldering is a very mindful process you know you're not worrying about paying your bills when you're wielding a blowtorch I think I did a pretty good job on that first one after the first rail was soldered I slotted all the pieces together so the Damascus spinner and the second rail caramelized that goopy flux and then applied a few pieces of silver solder and proceeded to solder the whole piece together now this was a pretty delicate operation because I needed to make sure that the solder didn't kind of flow down onto that piece of Steel and you know weld it into place it needed a bit of play so that the spinner could actually spin so I mean this was a game pretty nerve-wracking pretty mindful but I think I did a pretty good job so after all the pieces were fabricated and all the bits were soldered together the Ring went back to the pickling solution to clean off the oxidization and the leftover flux and then it was time for the cleanup operation so I did this using files my rotary tool a bit of Emery paper uh just to ensure that the edges were nice and smooth smooth there was a nice taper on the inside of the ring for comfort and that's you know there was a nice finish on the ring without any like big tooling marks or anything and then I decided to use a Scotch Brite wheel to give the silver portion of the Ring a lovely brushed finish so these scotched by Wheels I don't know I just love the kind of uh satin finish that they leave so I went over the whole piece with the Scotch Brite and then for the actual Damascus spinner piece of the Ring I used a green Polishing Compound um on a cotton buffing wheel I just went over the whole piece of Damascus until it was nice and shiny and smooth and pretty and that finish was a nice contrast to the brushed silver after all the buffing and polishing I cleaned the piece thoroughly with soap and water and I must say I am very very happy with the result I hope you enjoyed the video if you'd like to take a spinner ring like this home then I do have them available on my website danrichedewery.com in the meantime I'd love it if you subscribed show the channel some support and I will see you in the next one safe

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Keywords: spinner ring, silver ring, damascus steel ring, silver spinner ring, Damascus spinner ring, Damascus steel, silversmithing, silversmithing project, ring making, diy ring, how it's made, diy tutorial

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Length: 15min 3sec (903 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 10 2022