It was the ultimate DIY- we spent our Saturday with an amazing Virginia jeweler, who had his own shop at his house. He showed us the ropes-but mainly made us walk the ropes ourselves! It was an intense, fun, exhilarating, awesome day and in the end- we had our wedding rings!
We were both so jazzed at the end of the day that I made Mr. Pencils proclaim his excitement to the world (and roll up his window when I was cold! heehee):
We began quite excited about the day:
The first step was melting the white gold and creating the block with which we would build our rings. Mr. Pencils went first:
I was pretty excited about his awesome pour:
But would I do as well?
The molecules in the metal were now incredibly tight, and we had to go through a process of kneeling (heating up the metal) and milling (stretching the metal) to prepare it to become two rings.
So Mr. P kneeled:
I milled:
We repeated this process until we had a very long, blackened piece of white gold:
More to come soon!
What's your greatest DIY project?
No comments:
Post a Comment