GETi, The UK's leading manufacturer of quality Titanium and Black Zirconium rings and laser engraving. www.geti.cc
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Thanks everyone - I've got designs coming thick and fast at the moment - should have a Runic engraved one soon.
Easy peasy Jason - give me a shout if you need any tips or grooves cuttingLoving it Alan, I want to make a ring the same as the middle one with two silver bands and gold running through the middle.
GETi, The UK's leading manufacturer of quality Titanium and Black Zirconium rings and laser engraving. www.geti.cc
The Guild of Jewellery Designers www.guildofjewellerydesigners.co.uk
Odissa - Online Jewellery Marketplace www.odissa.co.uk
2008 titanium ones? Which ones are they?2008 titanium ones with the red/orange contrasting trim and the blue
GETi, The UK's leading manufacturer of quality Titanium and Black Zirconium rings and laser engraving. www.geti.cc
The Guild of Jewellery Designers www.guildofjewellerydesigners.co.uk
Odissa - Online Jewellery Marketplace www.odissa.co.uk
Your rings are so clean and neat. I'd love to see your equipment (absolutely no pun intended!). Maybe next year we should all meet up in Birmingham and you can give us a guided tour?
Oh yes.4020PRN-ANO Flat profile, twin anodised grooves Zirconium ring with external laser engraved Roman Numeral Date.
The colour is achieved by electro anodising whereby the ring is immersed in a special salt bath and an electric current is passed through it.
There isn't actually any colour there at all, what happens is whatever voltage you pass through the ring thickens the oxide layer of the metal which has the effect of allowing light to pass through it but as it is reflected back the spectrum is split which allows you to see different colour light.
Different thicknesses of oxide layer show different colours.
It isn't the most durable of layers that's why we protect it in a recess.
The whole ring is 'coloured' and then we cut it back to leave the bits we want.
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GETi, The UK's leading manufacturer of quality Titanium and Black Zirconium rings and laser engraving. www.geti.cc
The Guild of Jewellery Designers www.guildofjewellerydesigners.co.uk
Odissa - Online Jewellery Marketplace www.odissa.co.uk
Of couse, no problem - I don't mind showing you my equipmentMaybe next year we should all meet up in Birmingham and you can give us a guided tour?
GETi, The UK's leading manufacturer of quality Titanium and Black Zirconium rings and laser engraving. www.geti.cc
The Guild of Jewellery Designers www.guildofjewellerydesigners.co.uk
Odissa - Online Jewellery Marketplace www.odissa.co.uk
No just the refractive metals , Titanium, Zirconium, Niobium etc.does it work on all ores?
The same effect can also be achieved by heat but electrickery is a lot more controllable - down to 0.1volt increments on my machine.
Aluminium is quite popular for anodising as a metal but it is a different process and can achieve a hard durable surface. (Which you might have seen on electronic products for eg.)
GETi, The UK's leading manufacturer of quality Titanium and Black Zirconium rings and laser engraving. www.geti.cc
The Guild of Jewellery Designers www.guildofjewellerydesigners.co.uk
Odissa - Online Jewellery Marketplace www.odissa.co.uk
It wouldn't be impossible to rig up your own anodising unit with a little bit of know how. My dad made my first one which worked really well for a few years until it blew up one day. He's getting on in age now and I didn't want to bother him to fix it so I bought a professional machine.
GETi, The UK's leading manufacturer of quality Titanium and Black Zirconium rings and laser engraving. www.geti.cc
The Guild of Jewellery Designers www.guildofjewellerydesigners.co.uk
Odissa - Online Jewellery Marketplace www.odissa.co.uk
Lucozade and Coca-Cola are supposed to be good anodising fluids to use instead of Ammonia Sulphate salts but I didn't find them to work very well.
GETi, The UK's leading manufacturer of quality Titanium and Black Zirconium rings and laser engraving. www.geti.cc
The Guild of Jewellery Designers www.guildofjewellerydesigners.co.uk
Odissa - Online Jewellery Marketplace www.odissa.co.uk
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