Using a Disk Cutter to make Ring!

[mizgeorge]

Jo, I think it's more because you can than anything. I've done it just to see if it worked, and the result was perfectly nice, but no quicker (more the opposite) or better than fabricating it conventionally, and far more wasteful - it's much harder to use up bits of scrap from a disc than a nice clean strip.

I doubt I'd bother to do it again!

[ps_bond]

One word: Continuous pattern mokume.
OK, technically 3 words.

It's the only way I can think of to create a ring where there's no join in the pattern.

[Emerald]

but if that was mokume would you be able to do it
and what if it wasent the right size when you finished

[MuranoSilver]

Bloomin eck Peter you've already tormented me with swanky saws and now I want a swanky disk cutter.....
Thankfully I think I can buy lovely metal (I've always wanted to make something with it!)
Jo, I guess if Peter can hammer a bowl out of it he could probably make a washer ring
I'm not that advanced but love to make "Cinderella" rings....
They fit or they don't, rofl
nic xx

[caroleallen]

I love that term "Cinderella Rings". Must remember that. I hate making rings to fit. I usually end up making 2 or 3, which is OK as I can put them in stock to sell later.

[caroleallen]

The washer method may be a good idea for making enamelled rings. I must give that some thought. As you say though, sizing may be a problem.

[Emerald]

Jo, I guess if Peter can hammer a bowl out of it he could probably make a washer ring
I'm not that advanced but love to make "Cinderella" rings....
They fit or they don't, rofl
nic xx

Its easier and know i am not saying its easy, to hammer larger objects than small and yes i have made mokume before you ask.

[MuranoSilver]

Buggrit if I make some too then can we all have a secret handshake??

Feeling a bit like grasshopper in the presence of the Masterful ones
Nicxx

[Jayne]

One word: Continuous pattern mokume.
OK, technically 3 words.

It's the only way I can think of to create a ring where there's no join in the pattern.

Okay, dumb question alert......
If one were to use this method to make a ring out of a mokume gane washer, wouldn't the pattern be spread out & distorted more on one side of the ring than the other?

[ps_bond]

Sorry, missed this earlier - yes, it would. I'd make the initial pattern radial and try to compensate for the expansion in advance.

I don't make rings with copper alloys due to the longevity problems; I might use some offcuts as a brief demo sometime soon.