How do you make THIS?

**Londoner2015** · 20-07-2015, 05:05 PM

A friend of mine bought a ring identical to this in Turkey and has asked me how it is made. I obviously have no idea, but i'd really like to research how this was done. Is it a wax model which is then cast? I thought one of the stone setting experts on here might know. I'd love to see a tutorial on how it's made, as it's pretty amazing. Thanks so much for your time everyone. (not sure if i'm attaching the images correctly).

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**josef1** · 21-07-2015, 12:50 AM

I would make it using CAD then print the ring and cast it,I have made a video of how I would go about modeling it, I didnt want to copy the ring so I did a quick model that's sort of similar to give you an idea, CAD seems to get a but of a bashing on the forum for some reason, But I hope you get a bit of an insight into how I would go about making it. Oh and the music even annoys me ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h2F...ature=youtu.be

**ajda** · 21-07-2015, 06:00 AM

Wow! Impressive CAD skills - I certainly don't bash it, but wouldn't have a clue myself...

**ps_bond** · 21-07-2015, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by josef1

I would make it using CAD then print the ring and cast it,I have made a video of how I would go about modeling it, I didnt want to copy the ring so I did a quick model that's sort of similar to give you an idea, CAD seems to get a but of a bashing on the forum for some reason, But I hope you get a bit of an insight into how I would go about making it. Oh and the music even annoys me ;-)

What he said, including the music

Equally, it could be done in wax; you could just as readily do something similar (not identical) with wire & tube collets.
Not sure about CAD being bashed here Joe - I think there's just thee & me using it at all. About the only criticism I can remember seeing is regarding it supplanting hand skills, while I'm more interested in it augmenting them.

**caroleallen** · 21-07-2015, 07:46 AM

No bashing from me either. One of my best selling designs was cad designed, though not by me I'm afraid!

**ShinyLauren** · 21-07-2015, 08:56 AM

I think CAD is brilliant - wish I knew how to use it!

**ps_bond** · 21-07-2015, 09:08 AM

CAD's simple. You just tell the computer exactly what you want it to do, and it does it wrong.

**ajda** · 21-07-2015, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by ps_bond

CAD's simple. You just tell the computer exactly what you want it to do, and it does it wrong.

Ah - my mistake. I thought the computer was meant to read your mind and produce exactly what you'd seen in your dreams...

**ps_bond** · 21-07-2015, 10:39 AM

The trick there is to refine your dreams back to what the computer has shown you, it's far easier to be satisfied that way.
Just taken a Voronoi mesh derived ring off the printer; as the mesh is completely mathematically generated it seems a bit of a cheat. But I have built up the scripting for it myself at least...
Next step is refining the script. The advantage there is that I can change the look of the thing (and the size) very, very easily.