Twisted Galaxy Ring - Opal, Onyx and Mokume-gane

so in this video I'll be making a inlay ring using some silver sheet metal some black onyx and this wire that I made maybe a couple months ago so this wire is copper brass and silver all wound together and then I soldered it and then went through and weld it again and repeat that process about five to six times so everything is solid and one piece now and it has this cool like almost woodgrain look there's actual term for this but I can't pronounce it so I'll put it on the screen but you need a roller mill to make this so I'll make a video of showing that process after this one but just know you can make this wire or yourself if you have a roller mill and a drill so first things first I'm going to need to get the size of the ring which I already know it's a size 10 and then the measurement for it so I'll just take my calipers and a size 10 ring and this is a little different than the one I normally use this is for thick rings because I'm going to be making this a thicker ring and it actually helps a lot to use one of these when measuring your fingers because if you use a thin one and make it exactly to the size of ten one the thicker ring might not fit your finger so all I'm going to do is take the 19.3 I'm sorry nineteen point six five and put it into my calculator and then I'm going to need to measure my sheet metal which I already have and it's zero point six so I'm going to add that it comes up to twenty point twenty five and then multiply it by PI and that gives me the amount I need to cut off from here to make my band so when you have a sheet like this it's really good to use the already straight edges to make your fans so that's what I'm going to do and I'm going to make this about eight point two millimeters so I'm just going to set this and lock it and then use the sharp bits here basically to scribe a line so that is a eighty point two millimeter line then I'm going to set this to the 63-58 it's close enough and use this edge and go cross here make another line so now let's see if you can see this this is the part that I need so I'm going to cut and solve that out so when I do cut these out I always cut the line straight first the smallest one and then cut to it so once you have this it doesn't really matter how bad the top is as long as you file this down smooth cuz I did pretty bad on that cut job actually cuz I I'm normally over everything and cameras got out in the way so with this piece though we're going to want to square up the ends well at least one end because these two should be perfectly square because the piece I had was cut perfectly square so you can use one of these and it'll make it so you can cut down your edge to make sure it's as square as possible but when doing this make sure you don't make it stick out too much you just want it to barely come out I'll just take a normal file there we go so this particular silver is actually I believe spring hard or half hard either way it needs to be annealed which means I need to heat this up so I can soften the metal and work with that easier because we're gonna have to bend this into a ring shape so whenever you're going to anneal anything we're gonna make sure to want to put it on to something that's not gonna burn and make sure you have ventilation I like to sit I piece up like this so I can actually see how everything's going and it'll actually start to slightly bend under its own weight you just wanted to get a little bit red and hold it at that bread look for just a couple seconds [Applause] and then I'm going to take this in quench it in some water so here it is all quenched and cooled down so I can actually deal with it and then I'm just going to take my mandrel it doesn't need any particular location I just need to start rounding this so I'm going to do it back over here where it's not at a taper so once I have it like this I need to bend each edge to one another so they meet up as flat as possible and to do that I'm just gonna use some normal pliers basically that have no teeth in them so doesn't leave a bunch of scratches in here and you want these to line up as tight as possible because when the solder is gonna flow through here the tighter it is the easier it is for the solder to go across and connect both pieces so one thing that I like to do is take it basically like this and push it past itself and then pull it back so it's basically spring-loaded right there you want to make sure that they're on the same level to like going across so this is the most finicky part of doing this and if you look really close on here there's pretty much no gap there if you do have a gap and if it's on the even for whatever reason you can take your jeweler's saw and cut a straight line through here and it'll make both sides match but be careful not to take too much material off because you'll start shrinking your band and then it won't be the right size so I'm going to pickle this and get all this tarnish off and then I'm going to solder it together ss pickling I want to talk about my ventilation setup if you're going to be soldering stuff or using basically anything that I use you need ventilation and this is a cheap little solder smoke fan that you'll notice probably doesn't really work that well but it's not just this fan that I'm using this tube in the back here goes to another fan that's in the window that is sucking everything through I basically just turn this on to help it at this area okay so now it's all cleaned up and we can solder this together I'm going to be using a third hand to hold it for me with the solder point or solder joint pointing down so I'm going to add solder to the inside here and then go through the process of soldering at all but before I do that I'm going to have to add some flux to it so one thing you can do is they don't the chase around your flux when drying everything and soldering it is you can do this real quick until all the flux is dry like that and then add your pieces slaughter I'm going to be using hard silver solder for this so that should be you know and I'm just going to slowly heat this all the way around so the piece is heating pretty evenly there we go and then you're going to want to quench this just so you can cool it down and handle it so there we are it's all soldered together and I could throw this into a pickling solution now to get all the residue and everything off of here okay so here is all cleaned up now we need to round this all back out using the mandrel so normally what I do because this is going to be really a kneeled now and easy to bend I'm just gonna push down so we need to get it to the ten and as you can see there's a lot of gap right here that we can hammer down to make it round so I'm going to use this mallet which is it's made from rawhide and just tap this until it rounds out and continue to move it down I'm going to flip it over and do the same so here we are with it completely round now it's a little flared on either side of this because I use this to basically stretch this to exactly where I needed to be but that's totally fine what I'm going to do next is take down this weird flare so there's two ways you can do this you can use a hand file and you could put it on to your mandrel again so what you have something to hold it with and just go over it and you'll see that you're only making contact with the outside edges also I have the solder joint here that I want to cut down it's not going to matter too much because this is all going to cover it completely but I want to make sure it's pretty smooth right there so the ring fits and now I'm going to make powder fans similar to how this one is so we'll have these on it so we're going to be using this as our wire it's about a little over a millimeter thick I would say it about yeah one point I'm gonna go with the higher I'm gonna go with low end and be one point one so I'm gonna take the ring the inner band basically and measure the outside of it on the actual edges because they're going to be a different size so I'm gonna take that measurement and do the same math I did last time so basically I'm gonna take 20 points 97 add one point one and then multiply it by 3.14 which will give us our number yeah we're just take that that'd be close enough and now with this I'm just going to mark and cut it so I'm just going to make this one into a ring now make sure that everything is going to fit properly and I then I can make adjustments for the other side because it's a little bit bigger on the other side but once everything's done that won't matter so this particular piece is work hardened from going through the mill so many times and it's actually square which is a good thing for this which makes it easier to solder everything together but I need to heat this up and anneal it so I could bend it easier okay so I'm just going to take this and do the same thing we did before and especially because this is square wire I'm going to make sure to do it on a flat area cuz it likes to bend all weird if you don't so I'm going to pickle this and get don't cleaned up and ready for solder unfortunately I have to use silver solder on this but I'll clean it up as best I can so you'll never see it unless you're really looking so just like before I'm going to flux this piece and add a piece of hard solder to it you and then just crunch it so there it is al-sadr together I'm just going to put it into the pickling solution and get it all cleaned up and then round it all out so here it is after the pickling solution and now I'm going to round it out the same way I did with the first band I will have to be careful with this one and make sure it stays straight and if it does start to curve on me like it already has I'm gonna have to take it and use the flat surface here and just hit it down and tell everything flat so now I'm going to see if these will fit together or if I need to stretch this out a little bit more because I want them to be as tight as possible so there we go I'm able fit together now I actually as you saw how to hammer this into it and it's not going anywhere and then I'm going to add solder on the outside and make sure everything is stuck but before we do any of that I'm going to make another one of these bands so we can put it on the other side and I still have my last measurement from the other one that I'm going to use to make the other band you so here it is after eating both bands onto the center and now I just need to solder everything together to keep this as one piece so I can put the inlay in set of summer this I'm just going to put flux over the top and then put a bunch of tiny bits of solder around so when everything flows it will basically flood the top and fill in the gap between the two bands and for this I'm going to be using medium soccer so there we go it looks like it has no gaps in here if it does you can always quench this flux it or quench this pickle it flux it again and add solder pieces wherever there are holes and then just do it again until all the holes are filled okay now that we got it all cleaned up again I'm going to do the other side with the same technique you so this is some raw onyx and I'm going to break it up using basically this little cardboard roll and a hammer this is a tack hammer so the reason why I'm using the tack hammer is it can reach farther down in this which means I have higher walls on my little hardware - oh and if you're doing this make sure you do it on something hard like the anvil so here is all the pieces I got off of that you can make these smaller if you'd like there's tinier pieces underneath and you can use a mesh screen to separate them all out if you want to which I rehab and you're gonna want some bigger pieces like this to get the design that I'm going for so that's why I'm not crushing it into just a powder but as you can see in these bags I already have two different grits basically of this so I want to be using these I'm also going to be using this little bit of opal and some brass powder and I'll have links to all this in the description so now that it's all cleaned up I'm going to clean up the sides to make sure everything is going to be flush and there's no holes underneath any of the solder points and I'm going to use some 220 grit sandpaper and just a little bit of water so there's still some gaps and some parts that are just a little too far down that would require too much sanding of this and you've Louise a bunch of your material so I'm going to add in some more solder here just like before place the solder over those points and flood them and then grind it down using some sandpaper okay now that the ring is all cleaned up on the sides and there's no holes or gaps or anything like that we can start filling it in with our material and there's gonna be a couple different ways you can do this I've shown before that you can use an old mandrel a you don't really care about it anymore and basically just cinch it down on top of it like that and I use a tripod like this that has a empty gap in the middle and then I can use this to roll it around and place everything but I recently found a company that sells something that makes this a lot easier and here they are it's from ring supply is so calm and these are ring mandrels four different sizes that you can put it on to it and then screw that in or tighten it technically and it'll expand and grab your ring and then you can work on it like this so one thing you can do is if you had a drill that was big enough you put it onto here and hold this with a drill and just turn the Chuck as you're going I have a lathe now so I'm gonna put this in the lathe and use that to do this so here's everything on the lathe and I turn this as I please and this will stay completely stiff and I will be able to work around that I also put a piece of paper underneath it to catch anything that falls and I'll be using a thick and thin CA glue so to start off I'm just going to add a little bit of glue to the ring and then I'm going to manually start putting my chunks of onyx on so myself I was spring on there is an activator we're an accelerator for the glue so now it's completely hardened I need to switch out my paper so what I'm gonna do now is actually turn the lathe on and get this spinning and I'm gonna use a dust mask and some goggles or safety glasses so I don't get this in my eyes or breathe it in and I'm gonna start grinding it down so onyx is a very hard material and I tried a couple other bits that I don't have in this video trying to see if I can cut it down that way even the file like I've done in a previous video and absolutely nothing worked on it so I pretty much had to use the lathe to cut this down or it just wouldn't work but now with everything pretty much cut down there's a lot of spots that are missing so I'm going to filter a man with the opal and cover them up with a little bit more of the brass powder [Music] so this is pretty much to my liking and I'm going to spin this up again and @ca to fill in any of the extra gaps and just let it continue to spin so now with it all covered like fats I took it off and the inside of it is completely covered in glue that I need to take off and same thing with the sides so just the wet sanding with some 220 grit sandpaper or should take everything off the sides as for the inside I'm going to be using a rotary tool with a grinding wheel on it to grind all the rest of the glue off of the inside and all that's left to do is polish the ring and clean it all up and here it is after it's all done I do really like how I came out and how everything looks there are a couple things I would change to make it a little bit easier to make and to bring out some more of the colors but I really do like it so if you're looking for the ring mandrel tools that I got in this video and used head over to ring supplies com they actually gave me a discount code to give out to all of you so you can save some money on anything you order from them so you can get ring blanks if you want you get blanks of different materials to cut down and you can get demand rules like I have watch all their stuff but if you go in here you can see this is the set that I got it's everything with the holder but if you just want the stainless steel ring mandrel by themselves they're right here you can pick what size you want and then you go to checkout and view your cart so once you're in here go to checkout and then you're going to want to put your discount in here which is go mail creations and there you go and all of these will be shipping from Canada so if you're in Canada great if you're not it'll take maybe a week or so for them to get to you but they get to you pretty quick well if you like this video leave a thumbs up if you have any questions or have suggestions for future videos leave a comment below and if you want to be updated whenever I post new videos 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Channel: GomeowCreations

Views: 26,290

Keywords: resin, casting, wood, burl, maple burl, junk wood, diy, rings, wedding ring, lathe, lathe projects, pearlescent, peter brown, dip it, patrick adair, patrick adair designs, glow ring, carbon fiber, jimmy diresta, king of random, drill press, Mokume-gane, Onyx, Opal, Twisted Galaxy Ring, do it yourself, mokume gane, new style, vegas forge, braided ring, beginner jewelry

Id: uScbUlgDa8Q

Length: 30min 36sec (1836 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 18 2019